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Updated: June 16, 2025
There was a wheel, too. . . . I had no intention but you know yourself how it parches your throat the jollying and laughing and excitement. . . . I forgot all about what you what we talked over. . . . I'm ashamed and sorry; but I can stay here and attend to things, of course " "I don't want Neergard to see you," repeated Selwyn. "W-why," stammered the boy, "do I look as rocky as that?" "Yes.
I didn't come over 'ere to drown; I came over to fight. I wants to do me work but I cawnt do it. If you don't give me somethink Doc I am afraid I'll cut me bloody throat and I don't want to die. Cawn't you give me somethink to buck me up, Doc please?" The Doc did give him something, and between that and a little judicious "jollying" Kipple was a different man in a few days.
The weeds stood up all around me so I couldn't see, except up in the air and it was like being in a grave with just my head out. Gee, I thought about the fellows hiking it to Little Valley and beginning work on the house-boat and waiting for me to come, and I could just kind of hear them jollying Pee-wee, and oh, I wished I was there.
I never thought you'd want me." "We couldn't do without you, kiddo," said Roy, as he paddled. "We wouldn't have any luck you're our lucky penny." "Cracky, you could have knocked me down with a feather when I got that note. At first, I thought you must be jollying me and even now it doesn't seem real." The boys laughed. "Well, here you are, kiddo," said Roy, "so you see it's real enough."
"We simply got jollying a bit in the first place about the amount of perfectly senseless, no-account truck that'll collect in a fellow's pockets; and then some sort of a scorched piece of paper he had, or something, got him telling me about a nasty, sizzling close call he had to-day with a live wire; and then I got telling him here about a friend of mine and a mighty good fellow, too who dropped dead on the street one day last summer with an unaddressed, typewritten letter in his pocket that began 'Dearest Little Rosie, called her a 'Honey' and a 'Dolly Girl' and a 'Pink-Fingered Precious, made a rather foolish dinner appointment for Thursday in New Haven, and was signed in the Lord's own time at the end of four pages, 'Yours forever, and then some.
"We're not guys, we're just scouts," I told him; "you can cut out the guys. Didn't Mr. Ellsworth tell you that?" The fellows were sitting around on the deck, reading. Some of them were sprawling around on the cabin roof, killing time and jollying Pee-wee. I don't know where Mr. Ellsworth was, but I guess he was inside writing letters.
"We'll get Warde," Pee-wee said, "because he likes Warde, and Warde's pretty good at jollying me, too. And that'll be good because we're the three that stick up for Blythe, hey? And if any of those men say anything there'll be three of us to answer them." "They won't let us stay long, Kid," Roy said.
So Pee-wee launched forth recounting instances from his career of glory at Temple Camp, the boys prompting and jollying him, all to the simple delight of their new friend. His enjoyment seemed always an incentive to banter and nonsense.... It was soon apparent to the scouts that their coming had saved the enterprise for Blythe.
Cornelia had been narrowly on the watch for the flicker of dismay on Guest's face; it came surely enough, but was suppressed by such a gallant effort that, to use her own vernacular, she "weakened" at the sight. The impish light died out of her eyes, and she said frankly "I guess I've been jollying all the time!
She watched the sturdy figure as Pee-wee trudged along the gravel walk and down the street. He seemed even smaller than he had seemed on the veranda. And it was borne in upon her how much jollying he stood for and how many good things he missed just because he was little, and how cheerful and generous-hearted he was withal.
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