But he also knew something of the disappointments which innocent banter and jollying had caused in camp.
It was a tranquil time, a time of lolling under trees and playing the wild game of mumbly-peg, and of jollying tenderfoots, and waiting for supper.
They had just rowed across after an inspection of the washed-out cove, and were resting on their oars, jollying the little fellow whose legs dangled above them.
It seemed as if he might be saying that to me, but I knew he was saying it to Don--just kind of jollying him.
Too bad he can't talk," Westy said, sort of jollying me.
I knew it was the fellows jollying Pee-wee Harris and they were talking about a hole in the boat, because that was the roof I saw.
Well, we were an hiking it along, sometimes going scout-pace and most of the time jollying Pee-wee, when all of a sudden I noticed a mark on a rock that I was sure was a scout mark.
But I couldn't understand how he could come up the lawn whistling and jollying Don and feeling so good.
Pretty soon I could see the boat and some of the fellows on it working away, sawing and hammering and jollying each other, the way the fellows in our troop are always doing.
And he gave me a kind of a push, you know, just as if he was jollying me.
I said, "We were jollying him along because he was mad on account of our car being in the field.
I knew by the wavy hair and the look he had, that made me not know whether he was jollying me or not.
All the way through the woods they were jollying me and calling me Roy the Leopard Killer, and Harry Donnelle said I must have been carried off on the magic carpet to India, just like the people in the Arabian Nights.
Jingoes, I didn't know how to take him at all, and I could see Dorry was just staring at him as if he "didn't know whether he was jollying us or not.
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.
It seemed, yes it seemed that if Roy were to start jollying Pee-wee then and there, that smile would broaden.
He looked near as happy as Vida did when she embraced him out in the hall, a fine handsome young fellow, the best-natured in the world, jollying the boarders and jollying me and jollying Vida that he called Baby Girl, or Babe.
When we got back we sat around on the plush seats waiting for the freight andjollying Pee-wee.
We sat on the platform steps talking and jollying each other; what did we care?
Pretty soon we were all sprawling on the seats, started on our favorite indoor sport, jollying Pee-wee.
The Good Turn had run up alongside the Honor Scout which had come to anchor for swimming and luncheon, and Tom and his patrol had gone aboard the larger boat for "eats," where an uproarious session of jollying usually awaited him.
He'll be jollying you and me all the time we're here--you see if he isn't.
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.
Perhaps Roy had allowed his propensity for banter and jollying to run too far in his treatment of Pee-wee.
Of course, Roy knows that; he's only jollying when he calls it a good turn.
At first, I thought you must be jollying me--and even now it doesn't seem real.
Just before we all turned in for the night, Harry and Brent Gaylong went over and sat by him and began jollying him about the watch.
Gee williger, you ought to hear him jollying Pee-wee.
I looked up at the clock in the station and, good night, then I knew why he and Brent had been jollying Pee-wee the night before.
I said, "Will you stop your jollying and tell us what happened?
At first the infant Conning his dad until he walks the floor; And then the whining schoolboy, poring o'er his book, Jollying his teacher into marking him A goodly grade.
And then the justice, Handing out the bull con to the bench And jollying the jury till it thinks He knows it all.
The honest fellow was more than half crazed by strong waters, incomprehensible words, and "jollying up" which the young chaps had given him.
She says that I am cleverer than she is, but of course she was jollying me, for she makes beautiful things; but I can learn, and it's great fun.
