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"I ain't a baby!" his voice came faintly shrill after a minute. "I'm a rell ole cowpuncher." Miss Allen thought that was what he said, but at the time she did not quite understand, except his denial of being a baby; that was clear enough. She turned to the climb, feeling that she must hurry if she expected to get him and take him home before dark.
Tudor and I were following them: 'it looks rather flimsy and washed out. If I were you I would wear something more substantial. You see, you are so big, Jocelyn; your habit suits you better. We heard Jill laughing in a shrill fashion at this dubious compliment, and presently she and Mr. Tudor, who sat next to her, were talking as happily as possible.
It was a long hour of waiting, and Polly had begun to think that the train must have been wrecked by the way, when the distant, shrill whistle was heard. At the sound, she drew herself into a more dignified position, settled her skirts about her and fell to reading with a will.
I think I have heard that hogs and goats have been landed; but they may have been destroyed by the severity of the climate, or the want of proper food." Such and many more thoughts passed through the young officer's mind. His meditations were interrupted by the shrill whistling of the wind in the trees.
The hours wore on in peace, until midnight, when a low chattering, like that of a squirrel, was heard in the valley below; while a shrill whistling, resembling that of quails was distinguished above. "Come hither!" exclaimed Boone in a whisper to Glenn. "Do you see any of them?" inquired Glenn, joining his friend. "Not yet but we will see enough of them presently.
Presently he set her down. His breath was gone, his strength exhausted. "Can you manage to walk a little way?" he gasped. "Give me your hand, and follow as close to my heels as you can. Better that I should bump into things than you." Shouts were now heard, and shrill blasts on a police whistle split the air. Her breathing was like sobs, short and choking, but he knew she was not crying.
Well, between you and me, I wish he'd gotten away clean-handed. But too late now. "By the way," he went on, "I'd like to take a squint at your attic, too. That ladder goes up to it, I guess." "Go ahead," said Pop. And once more he tamped his pipe. There was a sharp, shrill cry from the boy, and Dozier whirled on him. He saw a pale, scared face. "What's the matter?" he asked sharply.
"Yes," said the shrill voice of Aunt Sally, from the doorway, "in course it did! Ye must be crazy, Jeff, for thar it stands in No. 8, whar ye must have put it after ye picked it up outside." Jeff, conscious that Miss Mayfield's eyes were on his suffused face, stammered "that he would attend to it," and put spurs to the mare, eager only to escape.
"Hallo, Newt! how air ye?" repeated Jim, as he confronted the representative. Abel looked at him with shaking head, indignant and scornful. "Who the devil are you?" he asked, at length, blurring the words as he spoke, and endeavoring to express supreme contempt. "We're the men that made yer!" retorted Dick, in a shrill, tipsy voice.
And almost before he had finished speaking, as likely as not he would jump into the air and alight some distance away. It was all done so quickly that a person could scarcely see how it happened. But Chirpy Cricket said it was as easy as anything. And having leaped like that, often he would begin to shuffle his wings together the moment he landed on the ground, thereby making his shrill music.
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