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How sweet those cheers must have sounded in the ears of Nick Lange, who for years had only earned the hoots and jeers of his fellows in Scranton, on account of their distrust, and his own evil ways. Why, the Belleville folks sat up and rubbed their eyes. They had never dreamed that any fellow not a professional player could prove himself such a marvelous wizard on steel runners.
Then the noise of machinery falling down like fire-irons and then two most awful yells. They're more like hoots, and I know I know while I listen that it means that two men have died as they hooted. It was their last breath hooting out of them in most awful pain. Do you understand? 'I ought to. Go on. 'That's the first part. Then I hear bare feet running along the alleyway.
" began Mrs Catanach, prefacing fresh remark. But at her name the mother flew into such a rage that, fearful of scandal, seeing it was the Sabbath and they were on their way to public worship, her companion would have exerted all her powers of oiliest persuasion to appease her. But if there was one thing Mrs Catanach did not understand it was the heart of a mother. "Hoots, Mistress Findlay!
And Aggie went on gathering faster and faster. "Hoots!" said the bailiff, going up to her, and laying his hand on her shoulder, "I ken weel ye hae the spunk to work till ye drap. But there's na occasion the noo. Sit ye doon an' tak yer breath ameenute here i' the shaidow o' this stook.
"But, Miss Aline, I think it will be better for you to go at once I am not going back to to be insulted and treated like a child. I want to go, Miss Aline." The old lady held up her hands from which the deep lace sleeves hung gracefully, while the half-mitts clung to the narrow wrists. "Hoots hoots, laddie! What's a' this? Ye hae been quarrelling with Patsy. For shame, Louis eh, what's that?
His suggestion was rejected with hoots of derision, and Frome made the conventional speech of acceptance to a House divided against itself. Jeff joined his cousin as he was descending the steps to the lower hall. "Don't blame yourself, old man. It would have happened anyhow in a day or two. They were looking for a chance to desert. We couldn't have held them. Better luck next time."
When night fell some of Rodney's cavalry lads crept into the corral, and there, with yells and hoots and firing of guns and pistols, they stampeded nearly four hundred of the mules. This caused a serious delay, only two hundred of the mules being found after two day's search, while more time was lost in getting others.
He was greeted by hoots, with a few cheers mingling. The Chairman begged silence for their worthy fellow-townsman, Councillor Japhet Williams.
"I say," interposed one of the party nervously, "what's the good of that kind of talk? They ain't any sense in hunting trouble, that ever I heard of!" He glanced over his shoulder uneasily. The rest burst out in a guffaw. "Chris is scared. He's been a-going along looking behind him ever since. Chris will have bad dreams to-night he'll yell if a owl hoots."
And yet here's the congregation dwin'lin' awa', and the church itsel' like naething but bees efter the brunstane. I say there's an Ahchan i' the camp�-a Jonah i' the vessel�-a son o' Saul i' the kingdom o' Dawvid�-a Judas amo' the twal'�-a�-" "Hoots! Thomas Crann; ye're no pittin' a' thae gran' names upo' that puir feckless body, Rob Bruce, are ye?"
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