war-whooping

Updated: May 31, 2025

First, she fell down out of the tree she and the blanket; and the bear caught her and fondled her her and the blanket; then she fell up into the tree again leaving the blanket; meantime the lover goes war-whooping home and comes back 'heeled, climbs the tree, jumps down on the bear, the girl jumps down after him apparently, for she was up the tree resumes her place in the bear's arms along with the blanket, the lover rams his knife into the bear, and saves whom, the blanket?

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi