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It is a question if the glib users of the phrase have the faintest idea what they mean by it. It is a catchword. It sounds ominously deep as the owl's wise but meaningless "too-whoo." English publicists who have never been nearer Canada than a Dominion postage stamp wisely warn Canada against the siren seductions of Columbia's republicanism.
"I too-whoo should like to know if Tchack-tchack is coming," said the wood-pigeon. "And I so, too-oo," added the dove. "It seems to me a most important matter." "In my opinion," said Cloctaw, speaking rather huskily, for he was very old, "Tchack-tchack will not come.
'Oh, said he full of the promised cow, 'I doan't care for that there Brown chap, he bean't no good; zo I jest put a cross agen he, and voted for Stiggins. The dream of life was accomplished, the labourer had a vote, and irony he voted exactly opposite to his intent. Too-whoo! ooo! the sound of a horn, the hunt was up; but this was not the hunting season.
Dan stammered, and forgot much that he had thought he knew. Lieutenant Bradshaw set down a mark of 2.9, whereas Dalzell, had he stuck sensibly to the business in hand, would have been marked as high as Dave had been. As the section was marching back to Bancroft Dan whispered: "Dave, did you hear the old owl go 'too-whoo' at me in the section room?" "Stop talking in section!" ordered Dave crisply.
There is one among the fowls who has so far forgotten what is becoming to a hen that she plucks out all her feathers and lets the cock see it." "Prenez garde aux enfants!" said father owl; "children should not hear such things." "But I must tell our neighbour owl about it; she is such an estimable owl to talk to." And with that she flew away. "Too-whoo!
You know you were doing what was very, very wrong like three little mice that were playing in the barn though the old mouse said: 'Little mice, beware! When the owl comes singing "Too-whoo" take care! If you do it again we shall consider it deliberately unfriendly of you.... Well, I'll toddle my decrepit old bones out of this. Eleven o'clock! How time has flown, to be sure!
Too-whoo!" they both hooted into the neighbour's dove-cot to the doves inside. "Have you heard? Have you heard? Too-whoo! There is a hen who has plucked out all her feathers for the sake of the cock; she will freeze to death, if she is not frozen already. Too-whoo!" "Where? where?" cooed the doves. "In the neighbour's yard. I have as good as seen it myself.
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