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Updated: June 23, 2025
She was to search the undergrowth, and if she found it, was to warn him by the Australian native "Coo-ee!" Whilst they were standing together, there came a blinding flash of lightning, which lit up for several seconds the whole area of earth and sky.
"There ought to be an echo somewhere here," he said, as they came opposite one of the hills, and he gave the Australian "coo-ee!" in a clear, ringing voice, which the echo sent back in a musical imitation. "How true it was!" she said, and she opened her lips and sang a bar or two of the "Elsie" song. Stafford listened to the echo, which was almost as soft and sweet as the girl's notes.
He had profound objections against shouting his whereabouts to his mate his woods' instinct warned him never to reveal his presence unless there was no other way out but he saw speedily enough that there was no other course left for him to take. He made a megaphone of his hands, and sent a long-drawn "Coo-ee" out to wake the echoes.
He gave a "coo-ee," and then getting a view of the antelope making down to the water, he turned it with another shot, and sprinted to overtake it. Yard by yard he gained in this final burst, and shifted his rifle to his left hand in order to have his right free to use the hunting-knife.
We lay under our mosquito netting, and gazed up through the interlacing branches of the trees at the star-strewn sky, and smoked our manilas in weary content. The long, full "coo-ee" of the stealthy argus pheasant sounded at intervals in distant parts of the forest.
The suddenness of it startled Bradby, and it wasn't until he saw Cumshaw waving to him that he realised that the sound he had heard was his companion's "Coo-ee." He loosed his hold on the reins, allowing the two horses to wander where they might, and commenced to run towards the hut.
Seating herself upon a granite boulder, she listened intently, but the only sound that broke the black silence of the night was the rushing of the waters of the creek. She placed her hands to her mouth, and was about to give a loud Coo-ee! when her pride stopped her. "If they hear me," she thought, "they will think I am frightened."
The India-rubber Man moved quietly down stream, scarcely distinguishable from the gathering shadows by the riverside; he carried a light fly-rod, and once or twice he stopped, puffing the briar pipe between his teeth, to stare intently at the olive-hued water eddying past. "Coo-ee!" A faint call floated up the valley, clear and musical above the voices of the stream.
Refusing to be carried, Scott dragged himself up the bank, and then allowed them to lift him on Euchre's back, Grainger riding and Jacky walking beside him. By the time they reached the camp it was broad daylight, and an alarmed look came into Grainger's eyes when there was no response to his loud Coo-ee! thrice repeated.
"I don't know will they let me alone afterwards? Are they ordinary abominable boys?" "Indeed, they're not!" said Norah indignantly. "They won't come near you at all, if you don't want them but I know they'd be pleased if you came. Do!" "Coo-ee!" "Jim's getting impatient, isn't he?" said the Hermit. "Well, Miss Norah, if you'll excuse my attire I'll come. Shall I bring my damper?" "Oh, please!"
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