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Two young folks ha! Scared. Runaway ah! What's that?" The dogs began to bay again. Far behind the boy and girl down the hill road rose the eyrie scream of the disappointed panther. "That cat-o'-mountain chase ye, boy?" the hermit asked, sharply. But Fred had no answer. He stood, in Ruth's sharp clutch, and hung his head without a word. The girl had to reply: "I never was so scared.
Long shadows of the tall trees were flung across the snow. The hermit commanded Rose, the setter, to guard the hut, while he allowed the hound to follow at heel. He carried his rifle, and Ruth was glad of this. "Haven't heard a cat-o'-mountain around here this winter," he said, as they started up the hill. "Didn't hear nor see one at all last winter.
Having thus fairly overwhelmed, dumfoundered, and tired out some one with his noise, he would go off in triumph, and say to the bystanders as he went, "There, lads, you see he hadn't a word to say for himself"; and truly a clever fellow must he have been who could have got a word in edgeways when Johnny had once fairly got his steam up, and was shrinking and storming like a cat-o'-mountain.
She now and then comes out upon the reformer with all the fierceness of a cat-o'-mountain, and does not spare her own soft-headed husband, for listening to what she terms such "low-lived politics."
She now and then comes out upon the reformer with all the fierceness of a cat-o'-mountain, and does not spare her own soft-headed husband, for listening to what she terms such "low-lived politics."
M. de Voltaire's patience flies quite done; and, fire-eyed fury now guiding, he springs upon the throat of Hirsch like a cat-o'-mountain; clutches Hirsch by the windpipe; tumbles him about the room: "Infamous canaille, do you know whom you have got to do with? That it is in my power to stick you into a hole underground for the rest of your life?
Ruth Fielding gave no sign of fearing the bearded man with the gun under his arm. She stood her ground as he approached her. "How many air there of ye, Sissy?" he wanted to know. "And air ye all loose from some bat factory? That other one's crazy as all git out." "Oh, did you see her?" "If ye mean that Whosis that's wanderin' around yellin' like a cat-o'-mountain " "Oh, dear!
The tramp burst into a whining appeal that was almost funny, it was so abject. The Professor cut it short. "I ought to pack you into quod," he said. "Are you the Phoebus Apollo I scuffled with down the lane last night? Was it you skulking around this wagon then?" "No, boss, that was Splitlip Sam, honest to Gawd it was. He come back, boss; said he'd been fightin' with a cat-o'-mountain!
Dundee swam the canal. The bank before him, up to the towpath, was of loose earth and stone, steep and difficult. He climbed it like a cat-o'-mountain. As he reached the towpath Marchmont appeared before the willows. His horse, a powerful sorrel, took the water unhesitatingly, but the opposite bank made trouble.
Some beast had leaped down from a tree-branch to the hard snow. "A cat-o'-mountain!" yelled Fred Hatfield, and as he shouted, the lithe cat sprang over the brush heap and landed in the road, right beside the timber cart. Once Ruth had been into the menagerie of a traveling circus that had come to Darrowtown while her father was still alive.
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