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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Oo-oo-oo yer!" he shouted again, as Mike, passing through the gate, turned into the road that led to the school. Mike's attentive ear noted that the bright speech was a shade more puffily delivered this time. He began to feel that this was not such bad fun after all. He would have liked to be in bed, but, if that was out of the question, this was certainly the next-best thing.
The old man was like a magician in an opera, and both of them were singing as though they were on the stage: "We go on, and on, and on!... You are in the warmth, in the light and snugness, but we are walking in the frost and the storm, through the deep snow.... We know nothing of ease, we know nothing of joy.... We bear all the burden of this life, yours and ours.... Oo-oo-oo!
He bolted like a rabbit for the other gate. As he did so, his pursuer again gave tongue. "Oo-oo-oo yer!" was the exact remark. Whereby Mike recognized him as the school sergeant. "Oo-oo-oo yer!" was that militant gentleman's habitual way of beginning a conversation. With this knowledge, Mike felt easier in his mind.
A low muttering, mingled with snorts, now made itself heard; rising to a bellowing roar that seemed to fill the plain. Then a cloud of smoke obscured the mouth of the cave, and out of the midst of it the dragon himself, shining, sea-blue, magnificent, pranced splendidly forth; and everybody said, "Oo-oo-oo!" as if he had been a mighty rocket!
'Remember when your chin hit that table and you said "blast"! I was just going to laugh. 'You didn't laugh when I picked you up. You were going "oo-oo-oo" like a little owl. 'My dear child 'Say that again! 'My dear child. He knocked every ounce of wind out of me the angel! But I must really go. They set off together, very careful not to join hands or take arms.
"You noticed nothing else?" "'E wasn't wearing no cap of any sort, sir." "Ah!" "Bare-'eaded, sir," added the sergeant, rubbing the point in. "It was undoubtedly the same boy, undoubtedly! I wish you could have caught a glimpse of his face, sergeant." "So do I, sir." "You would not be able to recognise him again if you saw him, you think?" "Oo-oo-oo!
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