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"And you had no escort?" "None of any efficacy. Monro, our gallant Colonel, went back to the French camp to protest and petition; but while he was gone the spark kindled. "It was the Anenaki chief who first raised the war whoop, and the effect was instantaneous. They sprang upon us like fiends.
"Well, sir?" asked Jim Ferrers. "From this surface ore," replied Tom calmly, "twenty-eight dollars in gold to the ton; silver, six dollars." "That's good enough for me!" cried Ferrers, his eyes brightening. "Wow! Whoop! Oh -whee!" vented Harry, then ran and snatched up the surveying transit. "Yes; I guess we'd better go along and do our staking," assented Tom.
This stream I traced down through its many dells and gorges, meadows and bogs, reaching the brink of the main Tuolumne at dusk. A loud whoop for the artists was answered again and again. Their camp-fire came in sight, and half an hour afterward I was with them. They seemed unreasonably glad to see me.
Suspense, they say, is less endurable than actual collision with danger. Probably Rushing River thought it so, for next moment he raised his black head quickly. Finding a hole in the defences, he applied one of his black eyes to it and peeped through. Seeing nothing, he uttered another whoop, and vaulted over like a squirrel, tomahawk in hand, ready to brain anybody or anything.
As we could not control the camp-fire, sparks of which blew fiercely, we extinguished it and went to bed. I had just settled myself comfortably to be sung to sleep by the concert in the pines, when Jones hailed me. "Say, what do you think?" he yelled, when I had answered him. "Emett is mad. He's scratching to beat the band. He's got 'em." I signalled his information with a loud whoop of victory.
But all things must come to an end, and finally Seth gave a shout, like unto the glad whoop a wrecked mariner might set up at sight of land ahead. "There's the place where we started in, Paul; yes, and I can see that queer tree at the spot the trapper's path ended, and the fun began!" he exclaimed.
A shade of annoyance, however, rested for a moment on the face of his companion, for she recognised the voices, and knew well that the quiet tete-a-tete with her willing and intelligent pupil must now be interrupted. "My cousins," she remarked, putting a touch on the cow that stamped that animal a lusus naturae for all time coming. Another whoop told that the cousins were drawing near.
Down this river they plied their course merrily on a fine summer's day, making its banks resound for the first time with their old French boat songs; passing by the villages with whoop and halloo, so as to make the honest Dutch farmers mistake them for a crew of savages.
With a whoop the old man reached for the little girl, and gathered in the boy with his other hand. "Hyeh!" he cried, "you two just git out thar an' shake a foot!"
To Mary's astonishment, the laugh with which Rob received her confidence was so long and loud it ended in a whoop of amusement, and when he had caught his breath he began again in such an infectious way that the girls up-stairs heard it and joined in. Then Lloyd leaned over the banister to call: "What's the mattah, Rob? You all seem to be having a mighty funny time down there.