hi-hi-hi-ki

Updated: April 30, 2025

Again and again she called to the dead man for help, called to him as she had been accustomed to call when her woman’s strength had been unequal to some heavy household task. Far down the trail she could hear the gallop of a horse coming closer, and mingled with the sounds of its flying feet was a voice urging the horse to greater speed in the shrill cabalistic "Hi-hi-hi-ki!" of the plains-man.

Marie Manning - Judith of the Plains