Crossword-Solution: RATERO 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Spanish Robbers--A Robber Adventure--Guardias Civiles--Exaggerated Accounts--Cross of the Murdered--Idle Robber Tales--French Bandittiphobia--Robber History--Guerrilleros--Smugglers--Jose Maria--Robbers of the First Class--The Ratero--Miguelites--Escorts and Escopeteros--Passes, Protections, and Talismans--Execution of a Robber.....186 CHAPTER XVII.

Spanish Robbers--A Robber Adventure--Guardias Civiles--Exaggerated Accounts--Cross of the Murdered--Idle Robber Tales--French Bandittiphobia--Robber History--Guerrilleros--Smugglers--Jose Maria--Robbers of the First Class--The Ratero--Miguelites--Escorts and Escopeteros--Passes, Protections, and Talismans--Execution of a Robber.

The next class of robbers--omitting some minor distinctions, such as the “_salteadores_,” or two or three persons who lie in ambuscade and _jump out_ on the unprepared traveller--is the “_ratero_,” “the rat.” He is not brought regularly up to the profession and organized, but takes to it on a sudden, and for the special occasion which, according to the proverb, makes a thief, _La ocasion hace al ladron_; and having committed his petty larceny, returns to his pristine occupation or avocation.

Louis-Philippe is a _ratero_, who, skulking under disguise of amity and good faith, works out in the dark, and by cunning, his ends of avarice and ambition; who, acting on the artful dodger (no) principle, while kissing the Queen, picks her pocket of a crown.