houtcry

Updated: May 15, 2025

I had made these reflections, and received a good deal of comfort from them, when Hannibal appeared at the door with a pallid countenance. "Two of them, Sir, are done for; one's a big un eight pounds, if he weighs an 'unce. He's a handsome feller, that un; black feathers, and spurs to his heels six inches long. They'll make a houtcry about him, I expect." "What have you done with the carcases?"

Edward Wilson Landor - The Bushman — Life in a New Country