Crossword-Solution: TEERS 5 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

While eating my frugal repast, up ride three mule-teers, who, after consulting among themselves some minutes, finally picket their animals and prepare to join my company; whether for all night or only to give their animals a feed of grass, I am unable to say.

Fallin on her neck, the old patriarch, with teers a streamin down his furrowd cheeks, ejackilated,-- "Farewell, Looizer, my daughter, farewell! I loved yoor mother ez never man loved nigger.

While gettin a fresh handkercher (wich I borrered from the hind coat pocket uv a delegate near me, and wich, by the way, in my delirious joy, I forgot to say anythin to him about it), I looked over the Convenshun, and agin the teers welled up from my heart.

Here is a prospeck! Here is fatnis! The President into our confidence! The Postmaster General a runnin the Convention! The bands a playin Dixie and the Star Spangled Banner alternitly, so that nobody cood complain uv partiality, or tell reely wich side the Convention wuz on, or wich side it had been on in the past! Ah! my too susceptible sole filled up agin; the teers started; but that vent wuznt enuff, and I fell faintin onto the floor.

Sed one, "Wat a techin scene! overpowered by his feelins." "Yes," sed another: "he deserves a apintment." I didn't go back to the Convenshun, coz I knowd it wan't no yoose; and besides, after all the teers that had been shed,--the members wringin their handkerchers onto the floor,--it wuz sloppy under foot.