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How good Toby looked! Dear Toby, who always seemed to be on hand when he was needed! "You looks fair scragged!" greeted Toby. "Were you gettin' lost?" "Lost I was lost out on the barrens and the marsh!" and Charley was scarce able to choke back tears of joy and relief. Toby after the manner of woodsmen had brought his ax. He quickly cut some wood, and in a few moments had a rousing fire.
"Ah, my boy!" said Bumpus, becoming suddenly very grave, "you've no notion, how near it was all up with me. Why, you won't believe it, I was all but scragged." "Dear me! what is scragged?" inquired Alice. "You don't mean to say you don't know!" exclaimed Bumpus. "No, indeed, I don't." "Why, it means being hanged.
To hold fast where a steel chain snaps And leave the grand white neck no gash. "'Don't understand a word of it," said Stalky. "More fool you! Construe," said McTurk. "Those six bargees scragged the Czar, and left no evidence. Actum est with King."
MacLachlan, a most extraordinarily vain and pompous little fellow, put his bonnet suddenly on his head, scragged it down vauntingly on one side over the right eye, and stared at John Splendid with a good deal of choler or hurt vanity. "Sir," said he, "this was our affair till you put a finger into it.
"But can't we leave word at his house, and then be off?" "That would be a fool's trick, that would. Why, it would bring suspicion on us, and if he is a gone coon it's impossible, you know, almost but if he is, we should get scragged for it. Come, I didn't think you was so chicken-hearted, or I wouldn't have brought you out.
He looked from it to me and then back again at the paper. "Fairfax," he said. "The d Tec, the same as got poor old Billy Whitelaw scragged last year." "I certainly believe I had that honour," I returned, "and it's just possible, if you continue in your present career, that I may have the pleasure of doing the same for you.
By keeping himself out of the way of the police and of his pals for nine years, Jacques Collin was almost certain to have fallen heir, by the terms of the agreement among the associates, to two-thirds of the depositors. Besides, could he not plead that he had repaid the pals who had been scragged? In fact, no one had any hold over these Great Pals.
Jim sthruv to shoot himself with his second pistol, but it missed fire. 'The curse o' the road is on me, said Jim; 'my pistol missed fire, and my horse slipped his shouldher, and now I'll be scragged, says he, 'but it's not for nothing I've killed one o' ye, says he." "He was all pluck," said Goggins. "Desperate bowld," said Larry.
A curious dislike for school-and-town rows and most misplaced severity in dealing with the offenders when they took place, were among the few flaws in the otherwise admirable character of the headmaster of Wrykyn. It was understood that one scragged bargees at one's own risk, and, as a rule, it was not considered worth it.
"What I mean is, that no personal feeling must come between us and the duty we all owe to Grandcourt to see this wrong put right; you understand me?" "Yes," said the downright Ainger; "we none of us like Mr Bickers, but we must find out the fellows who scragged him, all the same." "Exactly; and I am glad to hear you say that. There is one other matter.
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