Crossword-Solution: REDLEG 6 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Tonight, big and bony and broad-shouldered, he was a man, with the same outward gentleness over the iron inside of him as old Peter Newbolt before him; the same soft word in his mouth as his Kentucky father, who had, without oath or malediction, shot dead a Kansas Redleg, in the old days of border strife, for spitting on his boot.

The redleg--under the murderous system of shooting, year in and year out, over decoy-birds--would be exterminated within three or four years in any other country save this.

Among the simple adornments of the whitewashed wall and as an integral item thereof hangs a caged redleg.

Possibly he also possesses a _pachón_, or heavily built native pointer; but the dog is chiefly used to find ground-game or quail, since the redleg, ever alert and swift of foot, defies all pottering pursuit.