For that was a way Jolly Robin had. The worse he felt, the happier he always acted. And it was not a bad way, either.
VIII
JOLLY IS LEFT BEHIND
All of Jolly Robin’s friends and relations were greatly surprised when they saw him bidding his wife and children good-by, on the day the Robin family started from Pleasant Valley for their winter home in the South.
“What’s this?” they cried. “Aren’t you coming with us?”
And Jolly Robin laughed and said to them gaily:
“Not to-day! But you’ll find me waiting for you when you reach your journey’s end.”