sandboy

You'll get into it by-and-by, you see if you don't, and be as jolly as a sandboy.

Drink always rubbed him the right way, and he would reach his rooms as jolly as a sandboy.

Well, and Vera said, 'Here's Luce lying tucked up as jolly as a sandboy, why shouldn't we be jolly too?'

She'd just settle down for half a moment and then fly up again as merry as a sandboy.'