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I swear by the patron saint of every village for fifty miles round, provided they be not heretics, that you shall taste of its breast-bone this morning." The smoke did issue from a chimney, but the door of the cottage was shut. "Hilloa, within!" shouted Essper; "who shuts the sun out on a September morning?"
Then he walked slowly away from the restaurant. He had not gone very far when his arm was touched, and, turning round, he saw Gilbert. "Hilloa," he said, "you're late!" "No, I'm not," Gilbert replied. "Yes, you are. The Jaynes have gone!" "I saw them going. I've been here for over half-an-hour, waiting for you!" "Over half-an-hour! What's up, Gilbert?"
The man behind him, too, was in all respects like his man Friday; fully as dark-skinned, though perhaps with rather more clothing than Friday was accustomed to wear, as his dress was similar to that of the leading figure. "Hilloa, my friends! where do you come from?" he exclaimed, in a loud, cheery voice. "What! have you found me out at last?"
'True enough; but still there is no saying which will come first, Morrison, the boats or the fog; so we must be prepared. 'Hilloa! what's this? why, there's a boat coming from the yacht! Pickersgill took out his glass. 'Yes, and the yacht's own boat, with the name painted on her bows.
"Good speed have they made," again mused Sampson, as he approached his home; "if indeed, as I suspect, it be them who are hiding in yonder thicket. But here we are at last. Whoa, Silvertail, whoa! and now to turn out Bill from his little wife. Bill, I say, hilloa! hilloa! Bill, hilloa!"
Mounting our horses, Jerry, Hal, Ned, and myself set out in pursuit of antelope, whose tracks could be seen in all directions about us. We had ridden two or three miles without starting game of any kind, when Jerry, who was a short distance in advance of us, suddenly dismounted, and began studying the ground attentively. "Hilloa!" exclaimed Ned, "Jerry's struck something."
Green had a lead-line on board; it was let fall over the side, but no bottom was found. "Perhaps by pulling on a little farther we may find some place in which we can bring up for the night; if not, we must keep the oars moving," said Green. They pulled on accordingly. "Hilloa!" cried Tom; "what's that?"
And it took the admiral a great deal of kicking and plunging to rescue himself from some superincumbent mass that was upon him, which seemed to him to be a considerable sized tree. "Call this fair fighting," he shouted "getting a man's legs and arms tangled up like a piece of Indian matting in the branches of a tree? Doctor, I say! hilloa! where are you?"
None of the other canoes had interfered, and, seeing that which had plundered them making its way to the market, Lander pulled after her as fast as he could go, in the hopes of recovering their property. On their way they encountered another canoe, in which a person, apparently of consequence, hailed them with the words: "Hilloa, white man! You French; you English?" "English," answered Lander.
Before the door was locked upon him, he called aloud, "Hilloa! doctor, hip another word, d'ye see." They forthwith returned to know what he wanted, and found him already in a sweat. "Hark ye, brother," said he, wiping his face, "I do suppose as how one may pass away the time in whistling the Black Joke, or singing Black-eyed Susan, or some such sorrowful ditty."
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