jim-a-long-jo

Updated: May 9, 2025

That night Pierre camped in the Jim-a-long-Jo, finding there firewood in plenty, and Tophet was made comfortable in the lean-to. Within another thirty hours he was hid in the woods behind Fort O'Battle, having travelled nearly all night.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

"Clean tit for clean tat," he said, touching Halby's fingers, and then, with a gesture and an au revoir, put his horse to the canter, and soon a surf of snow was rising at two points on the prairie, as the Law trailed south and east. That night Pierre camped in the Jim-a-long-Jo, finding there firewood in plenty, and Tophet was made comfortable in the lean-to.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v5