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Believe me, sir," now turning to Doctor Luke, who had uttered a sharp exclamation, "for I knowed Jagger, an' I sailed along o' Skipper Jim. 'Skipper Jim, says I, when the trick we played was scurvy, 'this here ain't right. 'Right? says he.
The support of Lloyds since Jagger has influence at St. Johns will be invaluable in this case." He set sail in the sloop next day. It was now late in the fall of the year. Young slob ice was forming by night in the quiet places of the harbour. The shiver of winter was everywhere abroad.... For a week the weather continued ominous with never a glint of sunshine to gladden us.
He said no one would give it away.... I am guilty of putting the 'Jessie Dodd' ashore, for which I am extremely sorry of being prompted to do so by Thomas Jagger, and to be so sadly led away into such depravity. Had it not been for such an irreproachable character, which I have held previous to this dreadful act, ten minutes after the occurrence I would have given myself up.
"Doctor Luke," said he, between his teeth, "I'm this year in service t' Jagger o' Wayfarer's Tickle; an' I've heared tell o' the quarrel atween you; an'...." "Yes?" the doctor inquired. "I've took sides." "I rather think," the doctor observed, "that you can tell me something I very much want to know." "I've no wish, God knows!" Jonas continued, with deep feeling, "t' betray my master.
Grandpa was a tall big man. He was a full blood Indian. "My mother called whiskey 'jagger' I don't know why. "After Mr. Redman died, Miss Mary married Mr. Badgett. Me and George and Sissy all growed up together. My mother was married twice too. She had two of us by her first husband and eight children by her last husband.
And Skipper Tommy, sitting bowed in my father's house, told us in a dull, slow way made tragic, from time to time, by the sweet light in his eye, by the flitting shadow of a smile told us, thus, that Jagger of Wayfarer's Tickle lay at the point of death, in fear of hell, crying for the help of his enemy: and then put his arm about Jacky, and went with him to the Rat Hole, there to bury his sorrow, that it might not distress us the more, who sorrowed, also.
"That's awful!" he muttered, with a sad shake of the head. "Tell that poor man the doctor will come. Tell un, oh, tell un," he added, wringing his hands, "not t' be afeared o' hell!" "Yes, yes!" the clerk exclaimed, impatiently. "Don't forget the message. Jagger lies sick, and dying, and begging for help."
'Twas very sad nauseating, too: so that one wished to stop the white, writhing lips with a hearty buffet; for rascals should be strong, lest their pitiful complaints distress the hearts of honest men, who have not deserved the cruel punishment. Jagger came waddling down to the landing, his great dog at his heels. "What you doin'," he demanded, scowling like a thunder-storm, "with that man?"
Sometimes two or three fish are "jagged" at once, and as the average weight is 10 lb. the jagger takes a turn of the line around his waist and straggles up the beach. Even if he has but one fish hooked amidships he has all he can do to drag him out from the countless thousands and land him.
"I'm not knowin'," she said. We turned homeward; and thereafter through the months of that summer we were diligent in business: but with small success, for Jagger of Wayfarer's Tickle, seizing the poor advantage with great glee, now foully slandered and oppressed us.
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