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I'm in the know too, and these old jimjams are my friends. Then he opens his mouth and points down it, and when the first man brings him food, he says, 'No; and when the second man brings him food, he says 'no; but when one of the old priests and the boss of the village brings him food, he says, 'Yes; very haughty, and eats it slow.
"Bein' well watered by that same crick, an' havin' good feed both in the Big Flat, as folks calls that country down below us, an' in the foothills. Rattlesnake Valley, over yonder, ain't never been good for much exceptin' the finest breed of serpents an' horn-toads a man ever see outside a circus or the jimjams. There ain't nothin' as 'll grow there outside them animals.
In my next what-d'you-call-it I'll see to it that I get named something really practical something that sounds swell and yet is good and virile something, in fact, like that grand old name so familiar to every household that bold and almost overpowering name, Willis Jimjams Ijams!"
"If you do," drawled Shotwell to Fair, as they hurried down into the lamplight, "you'll think the devil's inside of her with the jimjams. Still, she's lovely as long as you don't. Ah me! this is no time to jest! Po' Proudfit! He leaves a spotless characteh!"
I had hoped when "Ben Hur" made its great hit that the golden age of flash fiction was past that it could henceforth count among its patrons only stable boys and scullions; but the same nation that received "Ben Hur" with tears of thankfulness thankfulness for a priceless jewel of spotless purity ablaze with the immortal fire of genius has gone mad with joy over a dirty tale of bawdry that might have been better told by a cheap reporter bordering on the jimjams.
He affected to lapse against the door for a minute, as if staggered by a resplendent vision. Then he said: "What do I regard? Is it a dream, or have I again got them thees jimjams? My best friend and my best I mean my ONLY wife! Embrace me!"
Another sentry challenged us all his nerves jangled at our apparition. He was a young fellow, one of "Kitchener's crowd," and told us frankly that he had the "jimjams" in this solitude of Ypres and "saw Germans" every time a rat jumped. He lingered near us "for company. It was becoming chilly. The dew made our clothes damp.
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