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Updated: May 14, 2025
All hands were soon in motion on board le Feu-Follet, the sweeps were on the point of being handled, when the jigger fluttered and the first puff of the expected western breeze swept along the surface of the waters. To the seamen it was like inhaling oxygen gas. Every appearance of drowsiness deserted the people of both vessels, and every one was instantly busy in making sail.
"He is going to Jigger," she said, her heart beating faster. "Oh, but he is 'the best ever," she added, repeating Lou's words "the best ever!" Her eye brightened with intention. She ran down the corridor, and presently made her way to the housekeeper's room. A quarter of an hour later Jasmine softly opened the door of the room where Jigger lay, and looked in.
The third mast was stepped on the taffrail; it was small, and carried a little sail, that, in English, is termed a jigger, its principal use being to press the bows of the craft up to the wind, when close-hauled, and render her what is termed weatherly.
Besides her fore and mainsail, and those already named, the schooner, for so we must call her, carried two heavy, but graceful topsails upon her fore and mainmasts, and even a jigger sail or spanker and gaff above it, on a slender spur rigged from the quarter deck.
"Of course I might douse the mainsail altogether and run under jib and jigger; but no, I guess she'll carry it. Ease off on that main sheet a trifle, Torchy." We was makin' a straight run for it now, slap up the Sound and believe me we was breezin' along some swift!
Some stayed to pray and to confess their sins; others hardened their hearts and went home unrepentant. Michael Mangan went to Belz's grocery near the canal. He said he felt pains in his interior, and drank a jigger of whisky. Then he bought half-a-gallon of the same remedy to take home with him. It was a cheap prescription, costing only twelve and a half cents, but it proved very effective.
When Raoul quitted his vessel, he order her to stand directly off the land, just keeping Ischia and Capri in view, lying-to under her jigger. As this was low sail, and a lugger shows so little aloft, it was a common expedient of cruisers of that rig, when they wished to escape observation.
Then he remembered that he had given up smoking. "Darn it!" he mourned. "Oh well, I suppose I'll hit a cigar once in a while. And Be a great convenience for other folks. Might make just the difference in getting chummy with some fellow that would put over a sale. And Certainly looks nice there. Certainly is a mighty clever little jigger. Gives the last touch of refinement and class.
The blinds and curtains were up at these windows, and Jigger could see her as she sang. Never in all her wonderful career had Al'mah sung so well with so much feeling and an artist's genius not even that night of all when she made her debut. The misery, the gloom, the bitterness of the past hour had stirred every fibre of her being, and her voice told with thrilling power the story of a soul.
Besides, my window is on this side of the house, and I've got a cord arranged whereby a weight will fall on the floor of my room if anybody tried to get in here, after I've fixed the little jigger. I own a shotgun, you know, Thad, and can fire up in the air out of my window if there's any alarm.
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