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Every noise frightened her, the working of the "separator" in a distant part of the farm, the whistling of some farm-hand out in the yard, the voice of some boy, "coo-ee"-ing faintly, the lingering echo of the vanished day all these seemed to accuse her, to point fingers at her, to warn her of some awful impending punishment.
The sharp saw-like edges of the reeds bad cut into his flesh, and in the excitement he had not noticed the injuries. Thanks, however, to the regulations enforced by Mr. Hume, he carried in the pouches of his belt a little store of quinine, vaseline, and meat lozenges. He rubbed the vaseline on the cuts, mopped his face, and felt all right. Then he put his hand to his mouth and gave a "coo-ee."
He can understand and talk English enough to tell you." "I tell you this," began the doctor, but he was stopped by a growl that might have emanated from some savage beast. "You wait till I've done. Coo-ee!" "Coo-ee!" came in answer, and Black Jack rushed forward in a series of bounds, nulla-nulla in one hand, boomerang in the other. "Here, Jack, what do I do when I'm ugly?"
There has n't been a smell of a sheep within coo-ee of the swamp for the last three months; and the paddock was mustered for shearing just before the contractor left. It's into your hand for to-night. Well, I must" "I beg your pardon," said Thompson hesitatingly "Are you coming direct from Hay?" "Well, I left on Saturday morning."
He was handicapped now, because he must shun any chance meeting. His immediate neighbors, however, had no such fear; they edged closer and closer together as they climbed. At last, stopped against a perpendicular wall ten feet high, he heard them creeping toward him from both sides, with a guarded "Coo-ee!" each to the other; John Wesley slipped down the hill to the nearest bush.
In Norway there was an alarm of fire in one of those terrible wooden hotels, and we all jumped on each other's balconies to get to the outside staircases. It was soon extinguished, but it was a very bad scare. And now this is the third. Mr Elgood, do coo-ee again! Ron must be looking for me, unless he is lost himself."
Yes: there is no such thing as nothing, only things we cannot see. The chameleon eats the air. Adam! Coo-ee! ADAM'S VOICE. Coo-ee! EVE. This will please him, and cure his fits of melancholy. THE SERPENT. Do not tell him yet. I have not told you the great secret. EVE. What more is there to tell? It is I who have to do the miracle. THE SERPENT. No: he, too, must desire and will.
For all answer Dick took a long breath, unbuckled his belt, and shouted from the saddle at the top of a wearied and dusty voice, 'Torpenhow! Ohe, Torp! Coo-ee, Tor-pen-how. A bearded man raking in the ashes of a fire for a light to his pipe moved very swiftly towards that cry, as the rearguard, facing about, began to fire at the puffs of smoke from the hillocks around.
Will the mood change: will the day? I see a lone man in the top of a pasture crying "Coo-ee, coo-ee." I do not see at first why he cries and then over the hill come the ewes, a dense gray flock of them, huddling toward me. The yokel behind has a stick in each hand. "Coo-ee, coo-ee," he also cries.
One by one they followed the call and were soon assembled at the still burning embers they had lately left. "A nice navigator you are, ain't you, Spiller? Do you know where you are now?" asked Brown. "Well, I must say there seems to be some mistake," said Spiller. "I came along when I heard the coo-ee, and found myself here. It is most unaccountable.
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