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Updated: June 24, 2025
Everything jingles, the air is quivering with the sound and light. Below our windows in the shadow of our hotel on the embankment, the crowd of natives in their best behaviour and best clothes move to and fro making holiday, watching the ships and any ceremony that may come off in their neighbourhood, for like our own natives they love a tamasha.
Besides these, however, are many harmlessly humorous jingles and rhymes which were sung in the synagogue, admittedly for the amusement of the children, and for the child-hearts of adult growth. For them, too, the Midrash had played round Haman, reviling him, poking fun at him, covering him with ridicule rather than execration.
To slip it is for me always an event, an excitement. To come to a new place, to awaken in a strange bed, to be among strangers! To have dispelled, as by sudden magic, the old environment! It is on the scoring of such points as these that I preen myself, and my memory is always ringing the 'changes' I have had, complacently, as a man jingles silver in his pocket.
Besides, he has the same facility with a girl that he has with everything else he tries; his pen you know how infernally clever he is; and he can make good verse, and write witty jingles, and he can carry home with him any opera and play it decently, too, with the proper harmonies.
Carts, cars, jingles, barouches, horses, and vehicles of all descriptions rattle presently through the streets; for the town is crowded with company for the races and other sports, and all the world is bent to see the stag-hunt on the lake.
He painted a dark picture of the home-life of many of these girls: its hard work and unrelenting poverty; its cheerlessness; the absence of any fun; the irresistible allurement of the flashily-dressed stranger who jingles money in his pocket and offers to "show a good time."
Thurston nodded assent with certain mental reservations; so far the editors couldn't seem to make up their minds that it was poetry. "Well, say, I wish you'd slap in a lot uh things about hazy, lazy, daisy days in the spring that jingles fine! and green grass and the sun shining and making the hills all goldy yellow, and prairie dogs chip-chip-chipping on the 'dobe flats.
"Money, however little, always jingles merrily in our pockets," said Robin, smiling. "Pray you tell me what you deem a little sum." "I have of my own ten silver pennies," said the knight. "Here they are, and I wish they were ten times as many." He handed Little John his pouch, and Robin nodded carelessly. "What say you to the total, Little John?" he asked as though in jest.
"Does he want to get on our backs with his camel, this fellow?" "A silver door-plate on his body!" cried Tortillard, under his green mask with its red tongue. "If he gives us any cheek, we'll put him on his feet." "And we'll cut off the jingles of his jacket to melt them," said Nicholas.
None of the earlier editions, however, contained all the rhymes so well known at the present day, since every decade has added its quota to the mass of jingles attributed to "Mother Goose." Some of the earlier verses have become entirely obsolete, and it is well they have, for many were crude and silly and others were coarse.
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