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As it passed it set up an exultant deafening howl that drowned the thunder "Aloo! Aloo!" and in another minute it was with its companion, half a mile away, stooping over something in the field. I have no doubt this Thing in the field was the third of the ten cylinders they had fired at us from Mars.
Here it is: Oh, the days of bygone joys, They never will come back to me; When I was with the girls and boys, A-courting, down in Tennessee. Ulee, ilee, aloo, ee Courting, down in Tennessee. It was "Jack's" habit to allow his head to hang to the left, due, presumably, to much practice in holding down the large end of his violin with his chin.
"Noo, lads, I'll tell you what it is," said M'Kay, addressing the prostrate soldiers "if you'll behave yoursels desenly, and no be botherin' me wi' ony more o' your tarn nonsense, I'll aloo you to make me your prisoner; for I'm no intending to run away; I'll kive myself up to save your hides, and take my shance of ta law for what I'll do. Tat's my mind of it, lads.
I'm no thinkin' 't; but 'deed I dinna ken, my lord!" said Malcolm. "What do you mean, then?" "Gien yer lordship wad aloo me to force yon door, I wad be better able to tell ye." "Then the old man is not quiet?" "There's something no quaiet." "Nonsense! It's all your imagination depend on it." "I dinna think it." "What do you think, then? You're not afraid of ghosts, surely?" "No muckle.
"My faither an' mither," Bell remarked with some pride, "usit often to tak' denner wi' the priest o' Sundays. They wes bidin' a good bit awa' frae the chapel, ye ken, sir, an' they aye likit a talk wi' me aifter Mass. So Mr. McGillivray wouldna' aloo them to fast till they got hame, but aye pressit them to stay.
I know that 'distance lends enchantment'; I'll get back farther, take the best view I can get, and preserve the enchantment." To cover his discomfiture, he started for camp, whistling: "Ulee, ilee, aloo, ee."
When several calls failed to arouse him, one of the boys tied an end of a rope around "Jack's" feet, hitched a pair of oxen to the other end, and hauled the delinquent out some distance on the sand. "Jack" sat up, unconcernedly rubbed his eyes, then began untying the rope that bound his feet, his only comment being "Ulee, ilee, aloo, ee; Courting, down in Tennessee."
When the hot skurry had ended, the remnant of the prairie-horsemen was seen heading down the valley, followed by the four bands of the Utahs who had now closed together. Pressing onward in the pursuit, they still vociferated their wild Ugh! aloo! firing shots at intervals, as they rode within reach of their flying foemen. Neither Wingrove nor I had an opportunity of taking part in the affray.
The painted Arapahoes clustered around their chief, and for the moment appearing in a close crowd, silent and immobile: from north, south, east, and west, the four bands of the Utahs approaching in rapid gallop, each led by its war-chief; while the "Ugh! aloo!" pealing from five hundred throats, reverberated from cliff to cliff, filling the valley with its vengeful echoes!
"I'm glad they left no bullets in me Ulee, ilee, aloo, ee; Courting, down in Tennessee." This paraphrasing of his favorite ditty was, of course, perpetrated by "Jack." But we all wished we knew. Was it true that these men were conspirators with the Indians who had been ravaging the emigrant trains?
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