boo-hoo-ing

Updated: May 22, 2025

It was night, and the girl that opened the door screamed and fainted away like a shot." He lit his pipe. "Mother was upstairs howling and moaning in a chair, with all the girls boo-hoo-ing round her for company. The old man was sitting in the back kitchen crying to himself." He put his hat down on the ground, dinted in the crown, and poured some water into the hollow for his cattle-pup.

Henry Lawson - While the Billy Boils