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Updated: June 23, 2025
Osborn's heart was light when, at six o'clock, he put his latchkey into the keyhole and entered; he gave the long, low coo-ee which recalled old glad days, and Marie emerged from the kitchen, finger on mouth. "Hush, don't wake him!" "Is he in bed?" "Nurse stayed to put him to bed before she left." Osborn embraced her. "We're alone at last, hurrah!" "Will you help me?" said Marie. "I'm so tired."
Ten minutes later she leaned forth again and called "Coo-ee!" very softly, and they returned to find her in the white bed, recumbent in a coquettish nightgown. She had folded and stowed her day garments away Tilda could not imagine where and a mattress and rugs lay on the floor, ready spread for the children. Nor was this all.
They are not in the hazel nut clump, and I can't hear a sound!" "Oh, my! Suppose they have gone looking for us the other way?" Both girls in alarm, now scurried through the woods, calling and giving the "Coo-ee" call, but not a sound answered them. Birds were flitting about from limb to branch, and the strange stillness of the woods frightened the little Tenderfoots.
Perhaps some twenty seconds she remained so with her lips parted, and then from the woods came a faint, long-drawn "Coo-ee." We ran to the side of the tower commanding the pathway from the village, and waited until from among the dark pines my father emerged into the sunlight.
They would have come back with the mill bell man looking for us." "Whoo-hoo!! Coo-ee, Coo-ee!!" trilled Grace, and back came the welcome answer. "Coo-ee! Coo-ee! Whoo-hoo!"
"So do I," said Compton, heartily, stirring the jackal with his foot. That sagacious animal rose slowly, stretched itself, one leg at a time, sniffed at the dead leopard, or tree-lion, whatever it was, and then curled itself up again. "Coo-ee coo-ee!" came out of the woods. "Coo-ee!" replied Compton, to the glad sound. "Coo-ee!" and he fired off his gun.
At the exact spot on the creek she struck off at right angles into the heart of the trees, keeping a sharp lookout for the tall old form that might appear at any moment hoping that her father might not grow tired of fishing and coo-ee for her to return. But there was silence in the bush, and no sign of the Hermit could be seen.
A loud coo-ee summoned F to tea, and directly afterwards the horses were re-saddled, the now empty flax basket filled with the obnoxious teapot and cup, wrapped in many layers of flax leaves, to prevent their rattling, and we bade good night to the tired bushmen.
I thought I knew the track tolerably well; but on my way through the bush I got confused, and came to the conclusion that I had lost my way. When travellers get lost, they usually "coo-ee" at the top of their voice, and the prolonged note, rising at the end, is heard at a great distance in the silence of the bush. I coo-ied as loud as I could, and listened; but there was no response.
And as we sat there, gazing and listening, a human voice came out of the night a call prolonged and modulated like the coo-ee of the Australian bush, far off and faint; but the children in the kitchen heard it at the same time, for they too had been listening, and instantly went mad with excitement. "Father!" they all screamed together.
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