Joe caught Boston Frank's eye and forthwith pushed himself alongside the yegg. |
A jeweler by trade, he fell from his high estate and went on the road as a yegg. |
Sometimes, though, past and present combinations commingle in the mind, leaving men to huddle in the cold like hapless burglars while waiting for the frozen-fingered deciphering of the head yegg. |
The practice was begun by country storekeepers who had become quite accustomed to yegg incursions. |
This grizzled old yegg was a by-product of the Civil War, where he learned the disruptive force of explosives, which were useful to him in his profession of safe-breaking. |
With a few ounces of this stuff the yegg successfully attacks all but the most powerfully protected bank vaults in America today. |