Crossword-Solution: TIKES 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The people prize these wretched tikes, because they are ever ready to worry a stranger, and are useful in driving game from the bush.

Whenever the family that she follows is about to have a death in it, she comes a little time before the death tikes place, sits either undher the windy of the sick bed or somewhere near the house, and wails and cries there as if her very heart would break.

This impression was confirmed by the chorus of irrepressible little Cadges proclaiming: "Mother tikes in washin', H'and so does sister h'Ann, H'everybody works at our 'ouse, But my old----" --a burst of melody which was abruptly checked with a tomato can hurled like a hand-grenade by their unmusical father.

All this took less time to happen than it tikes to tell with pen and ink, and though there may seem in reading it to be too much palaver on this stair-head, it was but a minute or two, after the bar was off the door, that John Splendid took me by the coat-lapel and back a bit to whisper in my ear-- “If he goes quietly or goes gaffed like a grilse, it’s all one on the street.

Didn't want them little tikes to come to no harm, that's all." "Billy, think how silly of you to think that place is under the ground.