Crossword-Solution: RICKER 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

They hae ta’en him up the Ricker gate; The wives they cast their windows wide; And every wife to anither can say, “That’s the man loos’d Jock o’ the Side!” “Fye on ye, women! why ca’ ye me man? For it’s nae man that I’m used like; I am but like a forfoughen hound, Has been fighting in a dirty syke.” Then they hae tane him up thro’ Carlisle town, And set him by the chimney fire; They gave brave Noble a wheat loaf to eat, And that was little his desire.

SIR: In obedience to General Grant's instructions of March 31st, with one section of Captain Muench's Minnesota Battery, two twelve-pound howitzers, a detachment of Fifth Ohio Cavalry of one hundred and fifty men, under Major Ricker, and two battalions of infantry from the Fifty-seventh and Seventy-seventh Ohio, under the command of Colonels Hildebrand and Mungen, I marched to the river, and embarked on the steamers Empress and Tecumseh.

Ricker turned to the company and said: “Gentlemen, shall I intrude upon your time if I relate just one of my adventures?” “Oh, go ahead,” said Strout.

Richard Ricker, asked sneeringly: “What asylum did you come from?” “I beg your pardon,” said the stranger.

These men liked his handsome face, his winning voice, the good-fellowship of his instant readiness to joke; he could see that they liked him, and that his friend Ricker was proud of the impression he made; before the evening was over he kept himself with difficulty from patronizing Ricker a little.