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They were so bitter about Britain and all her works that I gathered they were getting pretty panicky, and that made me as jolly as a sandboy. I'm afraid I was not free from bitterness myself on that subject. I said things about my own country that I sometimes wake in the night and sweat to think of. Gaudian got on to the use of water power in war, and that gave me a chance.
'Courtiers and Citizens: This journal, called The Jolly Sandboy, shall relate from time to time the doings of our noble court. It shall tell of the doughty deeds of our brave knights, and relate the gay doings of our fair ladies. It shall mention news of interest, if any, concerning the inhabitants of Seacote in general, and the families of this court in particular.
"Well," said the wren, "a present's a present. Folks with a living to get must give what they can afford." It is not wise, as a rule, to sleep on the bare ground in December. But Young John awoke warm and jolly as a sandboy. He picked up his gun. It was bent and curiously twisted in the barrel. "Hallo!" said he, and peered closely into the short turf where it had lain. . . .
When the candle was lighted she saw that Mildred was very pale and shivering. "You're overtired, my girl," she said. "That's what's the matter with you." "Oh, Tims," moaned Mildred. "I feel so ill and so frightened. I know something horrid's going to happen I know it is." "Don't be a donkey," returned Tims. "I'll help you undress and then you turn in. You'll be as jolly as a sandboy to-morrow."
Hester sat down and folded her hands in her lap, looking so excessively meek that they all had to laugh at her. "Now," said the Queen, "we're gathered here together, my loyal subjects, to listen to, to, what do you call it?" "The Jolly Sandboy," prompted King. "The Jolly Sandbag," said the Queen, misunderstanding. But she was soon put right, and King proceeded to read his paper.
And soon Bob fell in with his cronies and learned to keep his foot on the little rail six inches above the floor for an hour or so every afternoon before he went home. Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy. Jessie would meet him at the door, and generally they would dance some insane kind of a rigadoon about the floor by way of greeting.
"Of course you went to see the child?" "Three times whenever I was in port. And found him always the same so beautifully cared for that, upon my soul, I never saw a baby in my life so sweet and clean and wholesome-looking; jolly as a little sandboy all the time, too." "That means that he had a perfect constitution inherited from you evidently and that you were fortunate in the nurse."
"How is your Hannah's late husband?" inquired the Reb with almost a wink, for everything combined to make him jolly as a sandboy. "I understand he is a friend of yours." "We used to be schoolboys together, that is all. Though strangely enough I just spent an hour with him. He is very well," answered David smiling. "He is about to marry again." "His first love of course," said the Reb.
"Can't we make it up?" asked Hester. "Yes, I s'pose so, if you make it real court like and grand sounding." "What shall we call our paper?" asked King. "Oh, just the Court Journal," replied Midget. "I don't think so," objected Hester. "I think it ought to have a name like The Sand Club." "The Jolly Sandboy," exclaimed Tom. "How's that?" "But two of us are girls!" said Marjorie.
Whenever, however, he had omitted to leave behind the three one-franc pieces and found a dinner awaiting him all the same, he grew as merry as a sandboy, kissed Nana gallantly and waltzed with the chairs. And she was so charmed by this conduct that she at length got to hope that nothing would be found on the chest of drawers, despite the difficulty she experienced in making both ends meet.
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