Jagger

“ Jagger felt that it was good for his self-respect to have that victory to his account, and he had held himself more erect and viewed the world more hopefully ever since.
“I say grannie’s right!” he said. “Shifting gates once a year, and lifting a goose or two for a lark, are just lads’ tricks—mischief ’at means naught. But when grown men plan out Mischief Nights a toathri times a month it looks as if the Old Lad had somebody on his fork, and if I could just catch him I’d shove t’ fork that far in he wouldn’t get off again easy!” ”

“ As for getting hold of his throttle, it ’ud suit me better to get hold of his ’at has him on t’ fork.”
“There isn’t a ha’porth o’ difference between ’em,” said Jagger emphatically.
“Yes, there’s this much,” corrected his father; “ ’at t’ Old Lad’s i’ t’ sperrit and t’ young lad’s i’ t’ flesh, and while a man’s i’ t’ flesh there’s hope for him; and I’d sooner break t’ lad off his bad ways than I’d break his back for him. T’ devil knows a good hammer when he sees it, and a good hammer’s a good friend if we could steal it away. ”

“ Since then Jagger has thrashed our friend, and he’s still sore about it. There’s more life in a hole like this than most folk think, Martin. All the same, Jagger Drake hasn’t helped himself to this swag!”
It was evident that Detective Harker had been making good use of his opportunities.
“Have you formed a theory?”
“Not a workable one, so far. To be quite frank, I could think the business had been cooked, but I can’t at present see why or how. If I’m right there’s only one man who can throw light on the subject, and he won’t.”
“Meaning Inman?” ”

“ There was silence in the room—which none of us who waited found the will to break.
“Jagger”—said the doctor.
The voice was low—almost a drawl—but mightily authoritative: being without trace of feeling, but superior to passion, majestic. ”

“ A grim smile was on Jagger’s face now, and he moved away briskly, carrying the bag in his hand.
“He’s not likely to show fight under provocation, is he?” the detective asked Maniwel, as they followed slowly a minute or two later. “I should imagine he might be a bit of a bruiser, and it would be a pity to give Stalker an excuse for putting the bracelets on him.”
“Twelve months since I wouldn’t ha’ answered for him,” the father replied; “but he’ll keep himself in now, you’ll see. What’ll you do wi’ Inman?” ”

“ Jagger answered hotly. “I work hours and hours overtime as you know well without as much as a ‘Thank-ye’ for my labour; and t’ harder I work t’ less he thinks of me. I told him he was fond enough of putting his claim in when he was man instead of master, and he laughed in my face. He said he was for himself then and he’s for himself now, and for once in his life he spoke t’ truth. But it didn’t end there. He says I rob him because I won’t scamp my work and diddle his customers; and that filled t’ cup up, and I brought my bass home. You have it all there; he isn’t a man, he’s a devil.” ”

“ At any rate, in uttermost despair we paid for the lack of it.
I copy, now, from the deposition of Allworthy Grubb, master of the schooner Jessie Dodd, Falmouth, England, as taken that night at our harbour: “The ‘Jessie Dodd’ was chartered by Thomas Jagger, doing business at Wayfarer’s Tickle, to load fish for across.... I do hereby make a voluntary statement, with my own free will, and without any inducement whatever.... Thomas Jagger offered me, if I would put the ‘Jessie Dodd’ ashore, he would give me half the profits realized on ship and cargo. ”

“ Them ’at dig pits are like to fall in ’em. If it goes on much longer, lad, we shall have to watch.”
“Aye, but it’s more’n a man can do to work all t’ day and watch all t’ night. Let him be!” Jagger spoke as if the anticipated pleasure of seeing Nemesis at work outweighed all the grievous afflictions which were but for a moment. ”

“ My father’s voice changed ominously. “Is you listenin’, zur?” he asked.
“Sick, is she?” said the doctor. “Fifteen, ten. I’ve got you, Jagger, sure ... ’Tis no fit night for a man to go ashore ... Fifteen, ten, did I say? ”

“ Mr. Wooster turned and looked at the lad and said: “A good soldier asks no questions and marches, without knowing whither. He also cuts, without knowing for what. Now, to work!” and, at the instant they mingled with the workmen.
In less than a minute Jeremy’s dinner-basket was swinging on a willow-bough, his coat was hanging protectingly over it (you must remember that it contained Jeremy Jagger’s birthday cake) , and the lad’s own arms were working away to the musical sounds of a hatchet beating on a vast amount of “whistle-stuff,” until mid-day and hunger arrived in company. ”

“ Jaggers, shaking his head and gathering up his skirts. "Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule."
"I have no more to say," said I, with a sigh, after standing silent for a little while. "I have verified my information, and there an end."
"And Magwitch—in New South Wales—having at last disclosed himself," said Mr. Jaggers, "you will comprehend, Pip, how rigidly throughout my communication with you, I have always adhered to the strict line of fact. There has never been the least departure from the strict line of fact. ”

“ We boarded her, sad at heart that a craft so lovely should come to a pass like this; and ’twas at once plain to us sailor-men that ’twas a case of ugly abandonment, if not of barratry—plain, indeed, to such as knew the man, that in conspiracy with the skipper Jagger had caused the wreck of the schooner, counting upon the isolation of the place, the lateness of the season, the simplicity of the folk, the awe in which they held him—upon all this to conceal the crime: as often happens on our far-off coast. ”

“ If Inman’s aiming to get up it’s ’cause he’s been there before, you mark my words, and he’s desp’rate anxious to get there again.”
“But what can he want up t’ cliff side?” inquired Jagger; “it’s that ’at puzzles me. A man doesn’t go bird-nesting in t’ dark.”
“That depends, my lad, on what sort o’ eggs there may happen to be i’ t’ nest. Suppose, now, he’s made a nest of his own i’ one o’ t’ hidey-holes aboon t’ shingle, and wants t’ eggs in his pocket! It’s nobbut a notion I’ve getten in my noddle, lad, but I’m going to tell you how to scram’le up, and where to look.” ”

“ He burst into Aunt Hannah’s house with the news that he had been to Boston, that the soldiers were all gone, that he had seen his mother, that she had the small-pox and sent him off in a hurry.
“Tut! tut!” she cried. “It’s wicked to tell lies, Jeremy Jagger.”
“I’m not telling lies. Every word is true. Please give me something to eat.”
But Aunt Hannah did not wait to give the lad food, nor even to speak the prayer of thanksgiving that went like incense from her heart. She went into the barn-yard and threw corn on the barn-floor, to which the hens and turkeys made haste. ”

“ But we managed to get the crew ashore, and no man lost his life at that time. And Skipper Tommy, sitting bowed in my father’s house, told us in a dull, slow way—made tragic, from time to time, by the sweet light in his eye, by the flitting shadow of a smile—told us, thus, that Jagger of Wayfarer’s Tickle lay at the point of death, in fear of hell, crying for the help of his enemy: and then put his arm about Jacky, and went with him to the Rat Hole, there to bury his sorrow, that it might not distress us the more, who sorrowed, also. ”

“ I’ve a notion ’at t’ best way o’ dealing wi’ ill-will is to live it down and try to make a’ enemy into a friend. It’s a slow way, and it doesn’t always come off, but it’s worth trying.”
“Very well,” said the squire cheerily, “but it takes a deal of oil to soften the grindstone, Drake! However, you can but try. Is Jagger of your way of thinking? I thought he was looking well, if just a wee bit frost-bitten.”
“Jagger was converted as sudden as a Methody, t’ night o’ Boxing Day,” replied Maniwel; “and t’ penitent form was t’ saw-bench in t’ new shop. ”

“ And Jagger of Wayfarer’s Tickle—the same who sat at cards with the mail-boat doctor and beat his dog with the butt of a whip—having got news of my father’s death, came presently to our harbour, with that in mind which jumped ill with our plans. We had dispiriting weather: a raw wind bowled in from the northeast, whipping the fog apace; and the sea, as though worried out of patience, broke in a short, white-capped lop, running at cross purposes with the ground swell. ’Twas evil sailing for small craft: so whence came this man’s courage for the passage ’tis past me even now to fathom ”

“ I know—I knows—that which will put Jagger t’ makin’ brooms in the jail t’ St. Johns.”
“Ah!” the doctor drawled. “I wish,” said he, “that I knew that.”
“I knows,” Jonas pursued, doggedly, though it went against the grain, “that last week he wrecked the Jessie Dodd on the Ragged Edge at Wayfarer’s Tickle. I knows that she was insured for her value and fifteen hundred quintal o’ Labrador fish. I knows that they wasn’t a fish aboard. I knows that every fish is safe stowed in Jagger’s stores. I knows that the schooner lies near afloat at high tide. ”

“ All agree that the intention of the parties, when ascertained by an examination of both the instruments, must govern in this action where only the parties themselves are interested. There are no intervening innocent third persons. Jagger, the partner of Littlefield, who is codefendant with him, is charged with full notice of the rights of Treadwell & Perry, and others claiming under them. ”

“ What Jagger uttered on my father’s wharf—what on the deck of the sloop while he moored his dog to the windlass for a beating—what he flung back149 while she gathered way—strangely moved Tom Tot, who hearkened, spellbound, until the last words of it (and the last yelp of the dog) were lost in the distance of North Tickle: it impelled the old man (as he has said many a time) to go wash his hands. ”

“ Jaggers continued that he had been made my guardian, that he would provide me with a sum of money ample for my education and maintenance, and that he should advise my residing in London, and having as tutor one Matthew Pocket, whom I had heard mentioned by Miss Havisham.
"First," continued Mr. Jaggers, "you should have some new clothes. You will want some money. I will leave you twenty guineas, and will expect you in London on this day week."
He produced a purse and counted out the money, then eyeing Joe, he said, "Well, Joe Gargery, you look dumbfounded?" ”

“ The other three men strolled back to the yard.
"Bar accidents, there's only one you've got to fear," said Joses.
"And that's the Putnam horse," put in Jaggers.
"How's he comin' along?" asked the jockey.
"Great guns," the fat man replied.
"Think he's a Berserk?" asked Jaggers.
"I know it," said Joses. "Stolen jump. The stable-lads let him out on that old man for a lark. He's the spit of the old horse, only bigger."
"He must be a big un then," said Jaggers.
"He is," Chukkers answered. "And he's in at ten stun. The mare's givin' him a ton o' weight. ”

“ I asked the meaning of this phrase, suspecting that some bit of homely and perhaps valuable advice lay under it, but Jaggers thought not.
“Only Barny Bosher’s sauce,” he said. “He’s a fightin’ man—pick of the basket at nine-stone, five—so he thinks he can sye what he likes; but he’s got a good ’eart.”
We pushed on until a small shop appeared, framed in bird-cages. Spiritless fowls of different sorts and colours sat and drooped in them—parrots, cockatoos, budgerigars, and other foreigners of a kind unfamiliar to me.
“Come in,” said Jaggers. “This is Muggridge’s shop ”

“ Jag"ger (jg"gr) , n. One who carries about a small load; a peddler. See 2d Jag. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
Jag"ger, n. [From 4th Jag.] One who, or that which, jags; specifically: (a) jagging iron used for crimping pies, cakes, etc. (b) A toothed chisel. See Jag, v. t.
Jagger spring, a spring beneath a seat, and resting on cleats or blocks in the body of a vehicle. Knight.
Jag"ger*y (?) , n. [Hind jgr. Cf. Sugar.] Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis) . ”

“ HOW TO BUILD THINGS.
BRIGHT BOY. See
ADAM–12. Log no. 45.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL. Cinema Center Films. 120 min., sd., color. Videotape (2 in.)
Credits: Producer & writer, David Karp; director, Paul Wendkos; music, Jerry Goldsmith; director of photography, Robert B. Hauser; film editor, Carroll Sax.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth, Dean Jagger, Maurice Evans, Will Geer. ”

“ Only twice more did the housekeeper reappear, and then her stay in the room was very short, and Mr. Jaggers was sharp with her. But her hands were Estella's hands, and her eyes were Estella's eyes, and if she had reappeared a hundred times I could have been neither more sure nor less sure that my conviction was the truth. ”

“ You know the Jago far better than I. Is there a child in all this place that wouldn't be better dead—still better unborn? But does a day pass without bringing you just such a parishioner? Here lies the Jago, a nest of rats, breeding, breeding, as only rats can; and we say it is well. On high moral grounds we uphold the right of rats to multiply their thousands. Sometimes we catch a rat. And we keep it a little while, nourish it carefully, and put it back into the nest to propagate its kind.'
Father Sturt walked a little way in silence. ”

“ Yes, it is a jaguar that has come among them--the great jaguar, as they call him at the lake, who had already torn so many of the tribe of Onondagas. They are willing to fight with the devil himself, but cannot bear to look at the flaming eyes of the great jaguar. They rush away toward the wall, over the wall, into the ditch, followed by Conrad. Lambert, who had already pulled apart the burning pile of wood, called after him that he should go no farther but come back, for the others, who had seen the shameful flight of their comrades, now directed their fire at the two. ”