jiggits

Updated: June 23, 2025

At length says he, 'I ha' learnt th' way now; it's two jiggits and a shake, two jiggits and a shake. I can get that babby asleep now mysel. "The man had nodded cross enough to us, and had gone to th' door, and stood there, whistling wi' his hands in his breeches-pockets, looking abroad. But at last he turns and says, quite sharp "'I say, missis, I'm to have no breakfast to-day, I s'pose.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Mary Barton