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With a whoop of joy my old Mongol dashed down the steep slope. I had never seen him excited while we were hunting sheep, but now he was wild with delight. Before he had quieted we saw Harry coming over the hill where the wapiti had first appeared. He told us that he had knocked the bull down at long range and had expected to find him dead until he heard me shooting.
It was not a long time, indeed, before the Virginian began to have a better opinion of the intentions of the respective parties; for, by and by, the shots, which were at first fired very irregularly and at long intervals, became more frequent, and, as it seemed, more serious, and an occasional whoop from an Indian, or a wild shout from a Kentuckian, showed that the excitement of actual conflict was beginning to be felt on either side.
It was more than boy could bear, and with a joyous whoop the whole cluster took to their heels and spread themselves about, shouting and laughing as they went. 'It's natural, thank Heaven! said the poor schoolmaster, looking after them. 'I'm very glad they didn't mind me!
Some of the boys gave a whoop and began to look around, but they did not scatter much. Van Horn, losing no time, led Doubleday part way up the break along which he had crawled.
When I heard the whoop and hollo, and the tramp of the heavy boots of my pursuers on the winding stair which I was descending, I plainly foresaw I should be overtaken unless I could get into the open air.
He shouted as he rode under the towering pines, raced across a clearing with a whoop that roused the echoes, and yelled for sheer delight in the mad ride through the untraveled forest, where, as the knights of old, he rode forth to conquer and to do. But a sudden, sharp, acrid whiff of vapor in his nostrils checked his riotous impulses.
Even at the first foot-ball "rally," where he learned the college yells, Jason had been singled out, for the mountaineer measures distance by the carry of his voice and with a "whoop an' a holler" the boy could cover a mile.
As the young man fell, two Indians sprung from behind a cluster of bushes, which skirted the clearing some seventy-five yards to the right, and, with a whoop of triumph, tomahawk in hand, rushed toward him.
The latter describe its peculiar whoop, heard in the early night when the sexes call to each other. Many other birds were given over to Mr. Dawson, who worked from dawn till dusk. Mr. Grant dropped from the trees three snakes, one green and two slaty-brown.
Kindly dismiss from your mind entirely the idea that my sister will ever be permitted to marry you, Mr. Winfield." Steve, in the gallery, with difficulty suppressed a whoop of surprise. Kirk laughed ruefully. "Aren't you a little premature, Mr. Bannister? Aren't you taking a good deal for granted?" "In what way?"
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