Crossword-Solution: PROSSY 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

And then, mebbe, she brings ye in some doughnuts she's just cooked for ye--cooked ez only SHE kin cook 'em! Take Prossy Riggs--alongside of me here--for instance! HE'S made the biggest strike yet, and is puttin' up a high-toned house on the hill.

For it had been recognized that, after all, “Prossy” had a perfect right to bring his old mother there--his well-known youth and inexperience preventing this baleful performance from being established as a precedent.

Joe Wynbrook and Cyrus Brewster had, as older members of the camp, purposely lingered near the new house to offer any assistance to “Prossy and his mother,” and had received a brief and passing introduction to the latter.

But when they approached the curious crowd below awaiting them, Cyrus Brewster ventured to say, “Struck me ez ef that old gal was rather high-toned for Prossy's mother.” Joe Wynbrook instantly seized the fatal admission to show the advantage of superior insight:-- “Struck YOU! Why, it was no more than I expected all along! What did we know of Prossy? Nothin'! What did he ever tell us'? Nothin'! And why'? 'Cos it was his secret.

But now, gentlemen, ez we see she ain't that kind, but high-toned and level-headed, and that she's got the grip on Prossy--whether he likes it or not--we ain't goin' to let him go back on her! No, sir! we ain't goin' to let him break her heart the second time! He may think we ain't good enough for her, but ez long ez she's civil to us, we'll stand by her.” In this conscientious way were the shackles of that unhallowed relationship slowly riveted on the unfortunate Prossy.