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Oh, I wish I could tell you all, but I can't. You will trust me, anyway, won't you, and let me stay here for a while?" The captain sighed and looked helplessly around. "Well, I'll be jiggered!" he growled. "This is sartinly some fix an' I don't know what to do. The accommodation isn't much here fer the likes of you, though it ain't too bad fer me an' Eb.
He had an electric fan, which for want of screws had tumbled into his wash-basin and cracked it. 'That new mess-man' had taken the fan away and jiggered with it until it ran as sweet as ever, and he'd got some cement and fixed the basin, and made a fine job of it! This was the Second telling me all about it. And he thought this paragon was a lord.
Now, though, as I say, I'm jiggered ef I know exectly who ye be." "Why, Mr. Gidge, I'm Cabot Grant, who " "Of course. To be sartin! Now I know ye!" interrupted the other. "But where's White? What hev ye done with Whiteway Baldwin?"
We find that in bulky goods, such as cables and anchors and ships' boilers and suchlike, the accounts tally exactly, but in the small rope, and above all in the copper, there is a big shrinkage. I will read you the figures of some of them." John's face grew longer and longer as he heard the totals read. "Well, I'm jiggered!" he said, when the list was concluded.
"Well, I'll be jiggered," said Simmy, still holding Thorpe's hand as he backed away from him the better to take in this new and strange creature in overalls.
He'll" But Cross-eyed Chris became past hearing, his flicker of strength had failed; he keeled over, and lay, with his limp legs curled up, faint and speechless, upon the dead evergreens. "You ain't a-going to die!" gasped Herb defiantly. "I'll be jiggered if you be, jest as I've found you! Say, boys! Cyrus! Neal! rub him a bit, will ye?
The distant sound of a gun reverberated through the air apparently from the direction of the county- town. 'Be jiggered! cried the stranger who had sung the song, jumping up. 'What does that mean? asked several. 'A prisoner escaped from the jail that's what it means. All listened.
"Three dollars and twelve and a half cents," she supplied quickly. "There we are! Three dollars an' twelve an' a half cents I'm jiggered out of on the room I'm rentin'. Say! Bein' married is like savin' money, ain't it?" "But furniture wears out, Billy." "By golly, I never thought of that. It ought to be figured, too.
"This your stuff?" asked Cossar, waving the paper. "Well, why don't you stop it?" he demanded. "Can't be jiggered!" said Cossar. "Buy the place?" he cried. "What nonsense! Burn it! I knew you chaps would fumble this. What are you to do? Why what I tell you. "You? Do? Why! Go up the street to the gunsmith's, of course. Why? For guns. Yes there's only one shop. Get eight guns! Rifles.
One of the riders pulled out a revolver when he caught sight of Finn's shaggy head. "Well, may I be teetotally jiggered!" he growled. "What sort of a beast do ye call that?" The riders galloped down the slope and flung themselves hurriedly from their horses. The leading man waved his whip at Finn to drive him off.
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