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Then the three worthies seated themselves at the table which Dinah had half cleared of the supper china, and were presently deeply engrossed over a packet of papers which the big, burly man had brought with him in the pocket of his pea-jacket.
Whether "pea-jacket" belongs in part to this family, I will not attempt to decide. Living constantly among the vulgar and uneducated, it is not to be wondered at that the English Gipsies should have often given a vulgar English and slangy term to many words originally Oriental.
Presently his farmer companion, casting a patronizing glance on Clarence's pea-jacket and brass buttons, said cheerily "Jest off a voyage, sonny?" "No, sir," stammered Clarence; "I came across the plains." "Then I reckon that's the rig-out for the crew of a prairie schooner, eh?" There was a laugh at this which perplexed Clarence.
Where's Perez?" Captain Eri had lighted a lamp and was pulling on his boots, as he spoke. "Here I be!" shouted the missing member of the trio from the dining room below. "I'm all ready. Hurry up, Eri!" Captain Eri jumped into his trousers, slipped into a faded pea-jacket and clattered downstairs, followed by the wildly excited Jerry.
Just git a holt on that handkerchief in my pea-jacket and open it. Say, handle it easy." He watched the other search the pockets of the coat lying at the foot of his blankets. A great light shone in his gray eyes as Bill produced the handkerchief and began to unfold it.
When Rowland turned out to breakfast at seven bells that morning, he found a pint flask in the pocket of his pea-jacket, which he felt of but did not pull out in sight of his watchmates. "Well, captain," he thought, "you are, in truth, about as puerile, insipid a scoundrel as ever escaped the law. I'll save you your drugged Dutch courage for evidence." But it was not drugged, as he learned later.
We gladly accepted his offer; and his wife, who was a very nice person, treated us in the kindest manner, and produced a variety of garments, which we put on while our wet clothes were drying. Uncle Tom had a lady's cloak over his shoulders. Dick was dressed in an old uniform coat, and papa got into a pea-jacket.
Captain Cy strode past him into the dining room. The hat rack hung on the wall by the side door. He snatched his cap from the peg, and was struggling into his overcoat. "Where are you going?" demanded the lawyer. "You mustn't attempt to walk now. You need rest." "Rest! I'll rest by and by. Just now I've got business to attend to. Let go of that pea-jacket." "But " "No buts about it.
Then you did pawn the brooch at Stowley?" Jessop sat up and wiped his eyes. "Yes, I did. But I pulled my cap down over my eyes and buttoned up my pea-jacket. I never thought old Tinker would ha' knowed me." "Wasn't it rather rash of you to pawn the brooch in a place where you were well known?" "I wasn't well known. I only come at times, and then I went away.
He always wore one trouser leg over his wooden limb and sometimes it would flutter in the wind like a flag because it was so wide and the wooden leg so slender. His rough kersey coat was a pea-jacket and came down to his waistline. In the big pockets of his jacket he kept a wonderful jackknife, and his pipe and tobacco, and many bits of string, and matches and keys and lots of other things.
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