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A burst of laughter followed, of course, but the men's spirits were too much roused to be satisfied with this, so they converted the laugh into a howl, and prolonged it into a cheer; as if their comrade had successfully performed a difficult and praiseworthy deed. "Hold on, lads," cried Glynn. "I'm used up, I can't stand it."
You hear the wind whistling in the stable, the great door creak, the dog pull at his chain and howl, and, despite the noise of the forest trees which are groaning and bending close by, you can make out the lugubrious cawings of a flock of rooks struggling against the storm. The rain beats against the little panes; and, stretching your legs toward the fire, you think of those without.
"Christophe!" cried one of them, in a sort of howl. "Christophe! For three days he is here, Yes! We see him walk, Yes! If we go in, he will make us jump off the cliff!" And another added, with an undertone of superstitious horror, "And his ghost will be waiting at the bottom to carry our ghosts away!" "Fools!" declared Manuel, "open the door!"
Some toothless old sentimentalist or other periodically sets up a melancholy howl for "the good old days of comic opera," whatever or whenever they were. Perhaps none of us, once past forty, is guiltless in this respect.
One more step, and suddenly, with Loui's shriek of horror and the clown's terrified "Jesus and Mary, she is falling!" ringing on the air, she felt as if the rope had parted directly in front of her. Then a hurricane appeared to howl around her, bearing her away she knew not whither.
Bivens yelled above the howl of the wind. "You're pushing against me, just spinning around. Why don't you keep her straight?" Stuart saw they could never make headway by that method, turned and shot back into the marsh. "Get out!" he shouted sternly. "You can walk along the edge I can shove her alone." Bivens grumbled, but did as he was ordered. "Don't you leave the edge of that marsh ten feet!"
Philips and I listened after we heard the dog howl the first time, for we could hear as if somethin' like steps were stopped suddenly when he moaned the second time we listened again, and thought the same thing." "They couldn't be cattle," added Philips, "for the cattle are all kept on the other side." "Only the young stock, and them as ain't used about the farm," remarked Weston.
In order to do this he would go to a nearby horse-trough and drink it dry; would eat a number of pounds of soap, or other nauseating substance, clowning it in a manner to provoke amusement instead of disgust; and, further to mask the disagreeable features and also, no doubt, to conceal the trick would take the cloth from the table and cover his face; whereupon he would bring forth the swallowed cat, or one that looked like it, which would howl piteously and seem to struggle wildly while being disgorged.
Still, that awful howl we heard last night I keep wonderin' what it meant, fellers?" No one attempted to answer Bandy-legs. They believed they had about exhausted that subject while sitting around the camp fire on the previous evening, before starting to go to their blankets; and did not feel like reopening the question. "Let's get out of this," suggested Steve, with a shiver.
"A howl, you call it?" Mr. Mangan observed. "That's mostly like a dog that's hurt itself," Middleton explained equably, "like a dog, that is, with a touch of human in its throat, as we've all heard in our time, sir. You'll hear it yourself, sir, maybe to-night or to-morrow night." "You've heard it then, Middleton?" his master asked. "Why, surely, sir," the old man replied in surprise.
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