jackleg

The next year I had a projecting kind of jack leg carpenter, from Hanover, living with me in the capacity of overseer […]

The little nosy reporter with the hair was fair crazy to come, but McGinty gets a jackleg doctor to examine him an’ swear that he’s sufferin’ from spatulation o’ the medulla oblongata, housemaid’s knee, and the hives.

The train is late […] . ¶ “Well, if I come to such a place as this I must expect a jackleg railroad […] .”