Alfred Jingle

Alfred Jingle is a fictional character who appears in the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. He is a strolling actor and engaging charlatan and trickster noted for his bizarre anecdotes and distinctive mangling of English syntax. He has a servant called Job Trotter. After subjecting the Pickwickians to various tricks and affronts, he is pursued by them by coach from town to town. Eluding their grasp he is eventually encountered by Mr Pickwick as a fellow resident of the Fleet Prison where Pickwick charitibly bails him out and later arranges for him and Trotter to pursue their fortune in the West Indies.