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"Be content with the small but beautiful part you play in this world," she told the drop, "and do not long for a greatness which may result in your unhappiness." It was Mr. Owl who gave the wood folk the warning by calling out one night, "To whom it may concern!" At least the wood people knew that was what he meant, but anyone else might have thought he just cried "To whoo! To whoo!"
Down the ravine, then over the expanse of prairie dotted with gray-green sage-brush, she sped with her unconscious burden. "Whoo! whoo!" yelled another Crow to his comrades, "the Sioux have dispatched a runner to get reinforcements! There he goes, down on the flat! Now he has almost reached the river bottom!" It was only Nakpa.
I'll be blamed if I can figure on where he passed the night." "Where is he now?" "Oh, we jugged him. I didn't know what else to do with him. That's what I want you to tell me. Of course we can't keep him. No charge could be made, you know." "I'll come down and get him." The official grinned retrospectively. "Must say he had a fine career while he was out. Then he went to Watermelon Alley. Whoo!
And when they'd get drunk in a fair, it was nothing but 'Whoo! for the O'Hallaghans! and leaping yards high off the pavement, brandishing their cudgels over their heads, striking their heels against their hams, tossing up their hats; and when all would fail, they'd strip off their coats, and trail them up and down the street, shouting, 'Who dare touch the coat of an O'Hallaghan?
And last night I went into the barn, and hid my face in the straw; and there, as I lay and shivered in the straw, I heard a voice above my head singing out “To whit, to whoo!” and then up I starts, and runs into the house, and falls over my brother Denis, as he lies at the fire. “What’s that for?” says he. “Get up, you thief!” says I, “and be helping me.
Somebody below on the cinder path shouted: "Look out, boss lie's got a gun!" At that moment the marauder reached out to seize Mr. Damon's coat. Then the object in Mr. Damon's hand spat a fine spray into the florid face of the enemy! "Whoo! Achoo! By gosh!" bawled the big man, and he fell back screaming other ejaculations. "Bless my face and eyes!" cried Mr. Damon. "What did I tell you?
The villain of a procthor that suit poor Bob off afore he could look about him, 'ill resave his pay to-night, anyhow. What say you, boys?" "No doubt ov it! All right! Whoo! sartinly!" they grumbled and shouted in reply; and then, the whiskey having been brought, the health of Nanny's absent son, and their companion, was loudly proposed and drank.
Ye who have wondered to hear, in the same evangel, that God is love, and that God is a consuming fire, see ye not how, to the soul resolved in evil, perfect love is the most fearful torture, the seal and sentence of the direst despair? "Blast it!" said Legree to himself, as he sipped his liquor; "where did he get that? If it didn't look just like whoo! I thought I'd forgot that.
And last night I went into the barn and hid my face in the straw; and there, as I lay and shivered in the straw, I heard a voice above my head singing out 'To whit, to whoo! and then up I starts and runs into the house, and falls over my brother Denis, as he lies at the fire. 'What's that for? says he. 'Get up, you thief! says I, 'and be helping me.
So I pushed the drink around, and felt their grudge against me lessening while Sergeant Inch sang, 'Robin's asleep, for Robin is nice; Robin has delicate habits; But "Whoo!" says the gray Night Owl once, twice, And three times "Whoo!" for the little shy mice, The mice and the rats and the rabbits, "Who-oo!"
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