jinny-joes

Updated: June 9, 2025

"Sometimes you're like him and sometimes you're like her. You'll be a great fellow, John, if you turn out to be like your da. I tell you, boy, he was a man, and there's few men these times ... only a lot of oul' Jinny-joes, stroking their beards and looking terrible wise over ha'penny bargains!" "And then he died, Uncle William!" "Aye, son, he died.

St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine - The Foolish Lovers