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Thatcher nothing natural ever stopped the incessant wagging of her tongue. But it was not to be. He heard a new voice, the squeak of a cane chair suddenly pushed back, looked up to see the Major in an attitude of false delight and out came Mrs. Cooper Jekyll followed, as he inwardly exclaimed, "by the gentle Alice Palgrave, by all that's complicating! Well, I'm jiggered."
"Yes, but they were rather afraid of you." "Afraid of me?" "Yes, so one of them told me afterwards." I was fairly jiggered. If my personality can inspire fear or respect the world must be a simpler place than I had thought it. Afraid of a shadow, a poor make-believe like me? Are children more absurdly terrified by a candle in a hollow turnip?
Are you one of the Ingrines?" "I am the chap what certain folks calls the Romany Rye." "Well, I'll be jiggered if I wasn't thinking so and if I wasn't penning so to my juwa as we were welling down the chong." "It is a long time since we last met, Captain Bosvile, for I suppose I may call you Captain now?"
But stronger than the sense of victory won was a new emotion a sense of a duty done, of a responsibility begun. Joe got to the office rather later than usual the next morning. They told him I was already there, but he wouldn't believe it until he had come into my private den and with his own eyes had seen me. "Well, I'm jiggered!" said he.
Soon the man laid down his paper and left the room. "Well, I'll be jiggered," said Willis half-aloud. "What can he have against the man who was my father's partner? I don't know, but I'll find out." He closed his book with a slam and went off to bed. The last Friday night of the summer vacation saw a large group of husky high school boys board the car en route to the cabin.
Why, I'm jiggered if she didn't stop at 'ome from the Races t'other day, an' all on my account!" "Now then, pa, drop it. Or the doctor'll think you've been mixing your liquors. Give your old pin here and let me poultice it." He had another sound reason for gratitude. Somewhere in the background of his house dwelt his two ne'er-do-well sons; Tilly had accepted their presence uncomplainingly.
How your neighbor got hold of this thing, I'm jiggered if I can guess. I thought I was the only man in the city that knew it, and it has been my chief club to keep Barry in order. But however he got them, Percival's facts were all square, and Barry collapsed. Now, these two patched up an agreement.
In two minutes he jiggered out the hook and departed. I had changed rods and lines to-day, having borrowed one from Rodman a Montreal rod, larger and stiffer than the other: although heavier, I could cast better with it than with the Irish rod.
"Jim-jam, be jiggered!" cried Reynolds. "By ripes, I ought t' kno a jim-jam when I see one, I've met plenty. Tell yeh, I'm ez sober ez a turtle, an' I seen bin with me own naked eyes, not three yards off, jumpin' round on th' road, howlin' somthin' awful an' shakin' a bottle in the air." Peters thought it might be a bunyip. He had heard of a bunyip in Pig Creek.
"A man might put his back to the storm, but he would soon be jiggered; or he might take to the deep woods; but with a dog-team he wouldn't go far or fast, unless there was a proper trail." "That's where they'll make for, as like as not," said Stane with another stab of despair. "They who? Tell me, man, and never bother about the woods.
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