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"You may `hulloo' as long as you like, mounseers, but we'll be giving you as good before long," cried Ben; several of his shipmates echoing his words. They were right, for scarcely had the Frenchmen's cheers ceased, than down also fell their mizzenmast with a tremendous crash, evidently doing much damage.
Our cat profited by the permission accorded to him, and, having satisfied his hunger, had a desire to set out in search of the mansion of Madame de la Grenouillère; but the baker barred the passage. "Wait a minute!" he said. "I wanted a good cat; Heaven sent me one, and I shall not forgive myself if I let him escape. Hulloo!
Beauchamp's eyes filled with agonized tears, but the sailor's cheeriness was infectious. "I'll wake them," he said. Again his voice went up into the night, as if he defied the poor defences of the dark. "Hulloo! Hulloo oo!" "Susie!" cried Mrs. Beauchamp, in her thinner treble. And this time there was an answer a cry small and faint; not at all like Susie's boisterous everyday voice, but human.
I was so sceptical about finding the cow in a wood where concealment was so easy that I confess I rather idled and enjoyed the surroundings. Suddenly, however, I heard Mr. Purdy's voice, with a new note in it: "Hulloo, hulloo " "What luck?" "Hulloo, hulloo "
Following the direction of the sound, her eyes discerned a dark shadow in the hollow forty rods away. She put Sunbeam into a canter, and as she approached the shadow, the outline defined itself, and she saw that it was a ruinous shed or hut. "Hulloo!" came the voice again, and this time it was unmistakeably Stephen's. A hundred yards from the shed, Sunbeam shied violently.
"Hulloo, boss! What was it? A free fight, or a wash-out?" "A wash-out!"* Elijah grasped the idea as an inspiration. Yes, his cabin had been inundated, he had taken to a raft, had been knocked off twice or thrice, and had lost everything even his revolver! * A mining term for the temporary inundation of a claim by flood; also used for the sterilizing effect of flood on fertile soil.
He developed such a capacity for argumentation and seemed so sure of what he was talking about that I yielded, and we entered the wood. "We'll part here," he said: "you keep over there about fifty yards and I'll go straight ahead. In that way we'll cover the ground. Keep a-shoutin'." So we started and I kept a-shoutin'. He would answer from time to time: "Hulloo hulloo!"
"He's a stranger, Dudley; he doesn't belong to the village; we'll ask him who he is." "Hulloo, you fellow," shouted Dudley in his shrill boyish treble; "where do you come from? You don't belong to this part." The man looked up at the boys curiously. "And who may ye be, a-wall climbin' and a breakin' over in folks' gardens to steal their fruit?"
Perhaps some king has hidden away in it, or soldier when he was pursued by his enemies!" "Hulloo," said Dudley, looking up the hill; "here is such a funny looking woman coming down with a donkey, her skirt is nearly up to her knees, and she has a man's boots on." Old Principle paused in his work, and in a minute or two greeted the newcomer. "Good-afternoon, Mrs. Cullen, how's your husband to-day?"
At last he stopped, and struggling to hide his disappointment said, "You'll have to go on without me, Dudley. I only keep you back. This old leg of mine always comes in the way." Dudley stopped to consider. "It's a very long way, but we must get there somehow. Hulloo, here's just the thing."
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