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Every now and then Mahmoud would force a son or domestic of his to go down and hoick out a pearl, and this pearl he would exchange for something that he absolutely needed, such as a new tent or a new camel, and then he went on living the way he had been living before. Now, one day there came to this part of the world a man called Smith.
Overseers would attend the harvest with large carts, prong the tenth turnip, hoick up the tenth sheaf of wheat, bucket out the tenth gallon of ale, and so forth.
The tall seaman touched his hat by way of acknowledging the introduction. "But but I only see one!" protested Parson Spettigew. "This here's Bill Adams," said Mr. Jope, and again the tall seaman touched his hat. "Is it Eli you're missin'? He's in the cask." "Oh!" "We'll hoick him up to the store, Bill, if you're ready? It looks a nice cool place.
Often he heard the wild, ominous cry of the huntsman, "Eloa-in-hoick, hoick hoick, cover hoick!" as the hounds dashed into the furze; and the loud "Tally-ho!" as he himself, or, perchance, a less fortunate neighbour, broke into sight before the loud-tongued pack. And more than once, from a safe distance, he heard the awful "Whoop!" that proclaimed the death of one of his kindred.
But I'll be waiting to be summoned, and I'll come like a shot as soon as you hoick me out. I've got a presentiment about this thing. I know there'll be a finish and that I'll be in at it, and I think it will be a desperate, bloody business too. I found Mary's eyes fixed upon me, and in them I read the same thought.
Just then a light low squeak of a whimper was heard in the thickest part of the gorse, and Frostyface cheered the hound to the echo. 'Hoick to, Pillager! H o o ick! screamed he, in a long-drawn note, that thrilled through every frame, and set the horses a-capering.
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