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Updated: May 16, 2025
Tooting, with a vexed laugh, "why are you always jollying me? You ain't any older than I am." "I'm not as old, Ham. I don't begin to have your knowledge of the world." "Come off," said Mr. Tooting, who didn't know exactly how to take this compliment. "I came in here to have a serious talk. I've been thinking it over, and I don't know but what you did right."
It was a case of simply bringing out all there was in a couple of lads who, as a rule, were prone to give up too easily. And so they kept tramping along the turnpike leading toward home, jollying each other, and every now and then, when resting for a bit, trying to remove some of the dreadful evidences of black mud from their usually natty uniforms and leggins.
He was helping to entertain the guests, and jollying them up to believe they would get their money when we got to Memphis the next day, when he noticed the car had been sidetracked, and he knew that was the way we were going to dispose of the creditors.
The commonness of the men and the rough joviality of their mood were the more accentuated by the supreme dignity of the orator. He was a very small man, with pink cheeks and eye-glasses, beautifully made and still more beautifully dressed; and for all their boisterous "jollying" his auditors appeared rather to like him than the contrary.
There was nothing in it but him. He rose and placed his hands on her shoulders. 'Peggy, old girl, I don't know what to say. You know as well as I do that it's all owing to you that the piece has been a success. If I hadn't had your help Peggy laughed. 'Oh, beat it, George! she said. 'Don't you come jollying me.
"Oh, never you mind! It does a married man good to make him jealous once in a while. Keeps 'em from getting too stodgy and husbandy." "Jealous!" cried Lydia. "Paul jealous! Of me! Never!" Her certainty on the point was instant and fixed. "Well, you'd ha' thought he was, if you'd seen him. I was jollying him along we were in the trolley, going to Endbury.
Seventeen years in the marine corps you were sure he was "jollying" when he first said it had taken "Mac" to most places where warships go, from Pekin and "the Islands" to Cape Town and Buenos Ayres, and given him not merely an acquaintance with the world but what is far more of an acquisition the gift of getting acquainted in almost any stratum of the world in the briefest possible space of time.
I suppose you know they've got a sort of 'Y' hut running back here a bit?" "Heard some of the fellows talking about it, but, somehow, didn't seem to take much stock in the news. Fact is, I've temporarily lost my taste for those doughnuts and the girls who give their time to jollying up our fellows, as well as attending to their many wants in the line of letter writing and such things."
I worked like a horse for about half a day and then I gave up. Told Brown I'd take a duplex car-puller along next time I tackled that kind of a job, and I went back to the elevator." "I'd like to see Brown. I get letters from him right along, of course. He's been jollying me about that cribbing for the last two weeks.
They did, however, believe in hunter's stew and they forgot all else as they sat around their camp-fire in the quiet darkness, telling yarns, and amusing their new friend by jollying....
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