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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Hugh, do you think that could be what they call wild-fire, or some folks give it the name of will-o'-the-wisp, others say jack-o'-lantern?" demanded Horatio Juggins, who had been listening intently while all this talk was going on. "I'd hardly like to say," replied Hugh thoughtfully. "As a general thing that odd, moving light is seen in low, damp places.
'Well, one evening, when the night was shutting down pretty fast, Juggins and I got to a fairly large camp of Sâkai in the middle of a clearing, and of course all the beggars bolted into the jungle when we approached. We went on up to the largest hut of the lot, and there we found a woman lying by the side of her dead child.
Hugh looked around and received quite a surprise. Instead of Thad Stevens, Owen Dugdale, Horatio Juggins, "Just" Smith, or Julius Hobson he saw Nick Lang! "Oh, hello, Nick!" he commenced to say, a little restrained in his welcome; for, of course, he could give a guess that the other had come again to try and buy his skates, which Hugh was not much in favor of selling.
I returned to Philippa, where I had left her in the four-wheeler. I need not describe the aspect of the court. Probably most of my readers have at some time in their lives found themselves in such a place. True to the minute, the red-robed Judge appears. It is Sir Joshua Juggins, well known for his severity as 'Gibbeting Juggins. Ah, there is little hope for William Evans.
I whispered to Juggins telling him not to shoot, and we sat there for nearly a minute, I should think, peering through the darkness, trying to make out what was the black thing on the grave, that was making that scratching noise. 'Then the moon came out into a patch of open sky, and we saw clearly at last, and what it showed me did not make me feel better.
"Hugh, do you think that could be what they call wild-fire, or some folks give it the name of will-o'-the-wisp, others say jack-o'-lantern?" demanded Horatio Juggins, who had been listening intently while all this talk was going on. "I'd hardly like to say," replied Hugh thoughtfully. "As a general thing that odd, moving light is seen in low, damp places.
When Meeks had settled his bill and departed, Shamrock Jolnes stood with his hat in his hand before Juggins. "If it would not be asking too much," he stammered "if you would favour me so far would you object to " "Certainly not," said Juggins pleasantly. "I will tell you how I did it. You remember the description of Mrs. Snyder?
'Juggins groaned, and tried to persuade me to let him go at once, but I replied that nothing would induce me to go before one o'clock, and, so saying, I turned over on my side, and lay reading and smoking, while Juggins fumed and fretted, as he watched the slow hands creeping round the dial of his watch.
"A footballer," said my brother thoughtfully. "One of the best. Naturally he puts on a little side. He has money, and I told him he could double it in a year or two." "You told him that? Have you doubled your capital, Jim?" "Well er no. But I'm rather a Juggins. Thorpe is as 'cute as they make 'em." "A man of mind and muscle," murmured Ajax. "And my greatest pal," added the enthusiastic James.
I whispered as I squatted down. "What is that on the grave?" 'Juggins hauled out his six-shooter with a tug, and, looking at his face, I saw, what I had not noticed before, that he too was a trifle jumpy, though why I cannot say. He squatted down quietly enough by my side, and pressed up against me, a bit closer, I fancied, than he would have thought necessary at any other time.
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