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Updated: June 12, 2025
"I wouldn't 'a' thought it of a nice, friendly scarecrow like that! Buncoed me, didn't he? Well, feathers don't always make the jail-bird. Wonder what poor devil wore 'em last? Peeled out of 'em in this very shed, like as not. Well, they'll serve my purpose all right, all right."
"Jail-bird!" "You're an old drunkard!" "Drunkard yourself! You've got no call to abuse decent people!" "I'll knock in half a dozen of your teeth!" "And I'll make you walk lame, my fine fellow. Bankrupt!" Then the fight was on.
And I don't think you ought to ask Isabel to marry you, and you just out of just you know out of the the penitentiary." When Mrs. Ferret had gone, Albert found that while her words had rasped him, they had also made a deep impression on him. He was, then, a jail-bird in the eyes of Metropolisville of the world. He must not compromise Isa by a single additional visit.
Both my nephews were sitting up in bed, Budge looking as sullen as an old jail-bird, and Toddie with tears streaming all over his face. "Boys," said I, "don't be angry with each other it isn't right. What do you suppose the Lord thinks when he sees you so cross to each other?" "He don't think noffin'," said Budge; "you don't think he can look through a black sky like that, do you?"
Doherty's eyes were growing very large. The man needed new clothes; must have them that afternoon; there was a reason for his keeping out of the way; Miss Slopham would not tell what it was; the man had got into trouble. The idea grew bigger and bigger in Mrs. Doherty's mind, until at last it burst out with, "But is it a jail-bird ye've got there, ma'am?"
While exercising one day he recognized Balfour, who happened to be on the opposite side of the ever-moving circle: the old jail-bird, without glancing toward him, threw his open hands out twice. By this he conveyed to him that his own sentence was also twenty years. During the nine months that Richard remained at Cross Key, this was all that happened to him which could be called an incident.
Away went Deacon Quickset to Bartram's office, and was so fortunate as to find the lawyer in. He went right at his subject: "Well, young man, you've been in nice business, haven't you? trying to go up to the throne of grace right behind a jail-bird, while the leaders and teachers whom the Lord has selected have been spurned by you for years!"
I never liked the man's looks; I protest it was a mere accident that gave me the honour of his acquaintance, and generally I did my best to avoid him, when he would come skulking, like a jail-bird, out of his den into the liberal, open air of the sky.
So they swore the jail-bird, made him confess that he had served his term fully, and then told him to step down and out. His evidence was not needed. Mr. Rosenberg was raked fore and aft, but he stuck to his story. When the diminutive counsellor intimated that he was worse than the prisoner, the witness smiled serenely and winked at the magistrate as if it was a good joke.
"There would be more sense in that, than in wreaking yourself here upon two wenches that have done you and your daughter no ill." "No ill?" answered the old woman "and he to marry this jail-bird, if ever she gets her foot loose!"
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