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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Hev enny o' you-uns hearn him 'low lately ez I claim ennything ez ain't mine?" There was silence for a moment. Then the forge was suddenly throbbing with the zigzagging of the bow of the violin jauntily dandering along the strings. His keen sensibility apprehended the sudden jocosity as a jeer, but before he could say aught the blacksmith had undertaken to reply.
Sharp, who had just raised his glass, put it down again and smiled. It was a faint smile, but it seemed to affect his host unfavourably. "What are you smiling at?" he demanded. "Thoughts," said Mr. Sharp, exchanging a covert glance with Florrie. "Something you told me the other day." Mr. Culpepper looked bewildered. "I'll give you a penny for them thoughts," he said, with an air of jocosity. Mr.
But black eyes and swollen noses are impertinently obtrusive and disdainful of disguise, and the captain's battle-flags provoked no little jocosity among his men that morning. "Run up against su'then, cap'n?" asked John Hamon the engineer, who was one of the few who sided with him. "Yes, against a drunken fist in the dark. When it's sober I'm going to give it a lesson in manners."
Then came the morning when, out of the monotonous cold and snow-flurries, something new appeared, a narrow white rim forming on the river margin the first ice! "Winter beginning to show his teeth," said one man, with an effort at jocosity. Day by day, nearer came the menace; narrower and swifter still ran the deep black water strip between the encroaching ice-lines.
The levity with which many perhaps most American journals treat subjects of serious importance is another unpleasant feature. They will talk of divorces as "matrimonial smash-ups," or enumerate them under the caption "Divorce Mill." Murders and fatal accidents are recorded with the same jocosity.
It all irked Nehemiah Yerby, who had scant toleration of infancy and little perception of the jocosity of the aspect of callow human nature, and it seemed strange to him that these men, all with their liberty, even their existence, jeopardized upon the chances that a moment might bring forth, could so relax their sense of danger, so disregard the mandates of stolid common-sense, and give themselves over to the puerile beguilements of the visitor.
But who can know the joy of a really distinguished choice in shoe-leather like one who in her childhood has trotted barefoot through the sage-brush and associated shoes only with cold weather or going to town? The Basset boy tried to fix his strained attention upon anything rather than upon that tone of high jocosity between Hetty and the shiny-haired clerk.
He had thought them the dupes of Rogers; but in that brief instant he had seen them or thought he had seen them his accomplices, ready to betray the interests of which they went on to speak with a certain comfortable jocosity, and a certain incredulous slight of his show of integrity.
It was just a surprise and consternation to everybody, to think how their weak backs could bear such a burden of cares. No time had they for their wonted jocosity. To those who would fain have speered the news, they shook their heads in a Solomon-like manner, and hastened by.
They were kind enough not to come to an absolute halt, but passed slowly on, so that he was just able to avoid parading up the street in front of them. The expressions of his father, mother, and sister were of a dumfoundedness painful to bear, while such lurking jocosity as that apparent all over his brother-in-law no dignified man should either exhibit or be called upon to ignore.
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