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Billy's jollying just inspired you!" "And now it is his turn," said Hugh, returning to his hammock. "Now we shall see something!" Billy flushed a little, grinned, set his teeth, poised his body firmly, and then swung into the position of the famous "disk thrower." Thump! The first ring struck the deck a good foot beyond the post, rebounded, and rolled rapidly toward the railing.
"On the contrary, as a matter of fact, Dad, it'll be a lot steadier just because of my being up all night, assuring myself that there's nothing serious the matter with you and Mother, except the need of a bit of jollying by your boy which you've certainly had right off the reel, eh? Aunt Ellen thinks yet I've probably killed you. Are you the worse for it, Mother? Give it to me straight, now!"
You can't do that with a woman." "Have you found that out for yourself!" I asked him. He looked at me to see if again I was resorting to irony. But this time he found me sincere. "Women!" Philip sniffed. "I have found it doesn't pay to talk seriously to a woman. There is really only one way of getting on with them, and that's jollying them. And the thicker you lay it on, the better."
Tom's customary stolidness disappeared in the face of this great mirthful drive and he sat on the edge of the hatch, his white jacket conspicuous by contrast, and smiled broadly. He wondered whether any other country in the world could produce such a slangy, jollying, devil-may-care host as these vociferous American soldiers. How he longed to be one of them!
And he thought this good-natured prisoner would be able to hold his own even against a great Yankee drive of jollying. It seemed to Tom that the two German officials who sat behind a table examining him, asked him every question which could possibly be framed in connection with himself.
Having once used this, you will be sure to come back again. Try that," he cried in a threatening tone, "and look me in the eye." The anger fled from Kalman's face, and he began to understand that their new friend had been simply jollying them, and he sincerely hoped that neither he nor French had noticed his recent rage.
He is built to withstand banter, ridicule and jollying; his sturdy nature is guaranteed proof against the battering assaults of unholy mirth from other scouts; his round face and curly hair are the delight of the girls of Bridgeboro; his loyalty is as the mighty rock of Gibraltar. A bully little scout he is a sort of human Ford. He took a bite of the banana and the letter almost fell.
"Guess you're trying to jolly me a little, aren't you, Governor?" "Jolly you, Mr. Markham? I'm not given to 'jollying' newspaper reporters. Here's a copy of the telegram I sent this morning, if you are still sceptical. Really, I don't see why you think it so impossible. Don't you consider Mr. Huntington a fit man for the place?" But for the minute the reporter seemed unable to speak.
While all Minóok was "jollying" the Woodworth men, Maudie made one of her sudden raids out of the Gold Nugget. She stood nearly up to the knees of her high rubber boots in the bog of "Main Street," talking earnestly with the Colonel. Keith and the Boy, sitting on a store box outside of the saloon, had looked on at the fun over the timid cheechalkos, and looked on now at Maudie and the Colonel.
But that was all there was to it, and the captain's mess boy did his allotted tasks each day, and stood for no end of jollying from the soldiers, who called him "Whitey" and "Eats," because he carried the captain's tray back and forth. This banter he shared with Frenchy, who took it as good-humoredly as Tom himself, when he understood it, and when he didn't Tom explained it to him.
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