merry

When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child’s laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy’s merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.

“Now, would anybody think that this room contained a happy, merry party, who desire nothing better than to laugh and dance the hours away?”

Concealing his sad plight under a merry guise, the Fox indulged in a lavish praise of the water, saying it was excellent beyond measure, and encouraging him to descend.

“Oh, that’s all right,” he cried, with a merry laugh.