hark-a-that

Updated: May 19, 2025

He halted in his speech, and the next instant pulled the horses down to a willing stop. "Hark-a-that!" whispered Tom. "Can it be anybody crying? Maybe it's a wildcat," said Nan, with a vivid remembrance of her adventure in the snow that she had never yet told to any member of the family. "It's somebody shouting, all right," observed Tom. "Up ahead a way. Gid-ap!"

Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp : or, the Old Lumberman's Secret