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Every now and then a hound would he heard in the wood, whereon numbers of voices, right and left, would begin to yell in chorus Hurroo! Hoop! Yow yow yow! in accents the most shrill or the most melancholious.
It was a long time before they saw any of them; but, curiously enough, the next time the flying-girls visited the island they came in a group. It had been sultry, the first of a long series of sticky, muggy days. What threatened to be a thunderstorm and then, as Honey said, failed to "make good," came up in the afternoon. Just as the sky was at its blackest, Honey called, "Hurroo! Here they come!"
They closed round him in a ring, pushing one against another to hear. Tell us! Tell us! What did he say? Did you go in? What did he say? Tell us! Tell us! He told them what he had said and what the rector had said and, when he had told them, all the fellows flung their caps spinning up into the air and cried: Hurroo!
"Now, boys," commanded Si, "keep cool, pick your man, and fire low. I'm goin' to take the feller that's bin doin' the big talkin'." Each of the boys had already picked his man, and was eagerly waiting the word. Their fire threw their enemies into confusion, and as their guns rattled, the barricaded doors of the mill were thrown open, and Hennessey rushed out with a wild Irish "hurroo."
Did they take yer bet? Ye sun-burned limb av the divil did they take ut?" "They sure did," drawled the driver. "I had my gun on them all the time." "Hurroo! An' did I do ut? Tell me quick did I do ut? Sure I could aisy av nothin' happened." "You laid your first pair on top of the three, then the police called the game and the bets were off." "They pinched the house?" "They took you an' me."
"Hurroo! look out for squalls," here cried the intrepid Hibernian; for at this moment one of Paixhans' shells fell into the counterscarp of the demilune on which they were standing, and sent a ravelin and a couple of embrasures flying about their ears.
Just above the little waterfall sprang a banana tree laden with fruit; it had immense leaves six feet long and more, and broad as a dinner-table. One could see the golden glint of the ripe fruit through the foliage. In a moment Mr Button had kicked off his shoes and was going up the rock like a cat, absolutely, for it seemed to give him nothing to climb by. "Hurroo!" cried Dick in admiration.
The rope parted at the third stroke of the knife, and down dropped the net, sagging so much in the wake of the main-rigging that our lads were easily able to surmount the obstacle, and I saw Ryan, with a wild, exultant "Hurroo!" half fall, half leap down to the brig's deck, where he laid about him so ferociously with fist and cutlass that he at once cleared a space around himself for his followers.
Come along, lads, follow me, and hurroo for ould Oireland!" The two schooners being fast together, every man Jack of us sprang after our leader, only to be confronted by the boarding nettings triced up on board our antagonist, however; and as we sprang on the bulwarks and commenced hacking away at the obstruction they opened a hot and most destructive fire upon us with their muskets and pistols.
Go, you and Harry, and tell your secrets to each other while we prepare for the jubilation. In the meantime, we must get up an extempore dinner to-day the set dinner will come in due time, and be a different affair; but at all events some of the neighbors we must have to join us in the jovialities hurroo!"
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