Crossword-Solution: ROPERS 6 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And the big brown elephant catchers, the trackers and drivers and ropers, and the men who know all the secrets of breaking the wildest elephants, passed him from one to the other, and they marked his forehead with blood from the breast of a newly killed jungle-cock, to show that he was a forester, initiated and free of all the jungles.

The round-up season was at hand and the Bar-20 was short of ropers, the rumors of fresh gold discoveries in the Black Hills having drawn all the more restless men north.

Ropers has some very good stories about their domestic happiness,--stories confirming a theory of mine which, as I remember, made you very angry.

And the case, says Ropers, is the harder, because it is suspected that she wrote part of the book herself.

The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet.