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He's got all the hooks and lines, all the bait, all the hobbles, all the everything!" "Whew-w!" whistled the boys. "Well, it doesn't matter," Norah said cheerfully. "There's lots to do. We can hang up the ponies while we hunt for rods. You boys have got your strong knives, haven't you?" They had, and immediately scattered to work.
His gasps and grunts could already be heard in the distance, for, notwithstanding his various handicaps, he was surprisingly nimble, and in a few moments a round scarlet face hove into sight, and a round grey body rolled over on the ground by her side. "Piff! piff! whew-w!
What do men say when they meet the last together? Whew-w! How I hate death. The monster! The beastly cold privation. To leave even a North Sea smack must be bitter." The vessel came up to the wind, and the jar flung poor Ebenezer Mutton clash on to the deck. Luckily he did not land on his skull, but he had a dislocated ankle.
"Our dogs are decently trained," Norah said, much offended. "No, it wasn't dogs it was pigs!" "Whew-w!" whistled Wally. "Pigs. They had burrowed in right under the fence; there was a great big hole there. And they'd eaten every chicken, and every egg in the yard. My lovely boxes were all knocked over, and the nests torn to bits, and there wasn't so much as an eggshell left.
He dissembled, though as yet he was not able to tell an outright falsehood: "It's a letter telling me that I may expect to receive enough money in a month or so to pay off the mortgage. Now your brother's debt needn't trouble you any longer, Bud." "Whew-w!" whistled Bud. "That's great! Where does it come from?" "Oh, from an old friend that I lent the money to some time ago.
But to-day the room was stifling, and even the stiff beetles on their pins seemed to droop in the fierce glare of the sunshine streaming in. With an impatient "Whew-w!" Dan went hastily about, selecting such things as he needed for his impromptu camp of a night, and soon was ready; a blanket tightly rolled around net and tackle, and some food in his dinner-pail.
"Whew-w!" said he; "how this twine cuts!" Then I took hold of the line in front of him, and there was no mistaking the fact he had a big fish on the other end of it. "Run out!" cried Menendez, who thought there was no good of three fellows hauling on the line; and out we ran.
"They've taken the sail down, but they're having a grand time of it out in those waves. They are being driven toward us. Now I can make out a man and a girl and a boy in the boat. Whew-w! What a blast that was!" A dry branch came hurtling down from some tree on the bluff, landing at their feet. The next moment Uncle Teddy gave an exclamation. "They're flying distress signals," he said.
You know they have found that a good lot of the Bible is all rot." "I think they are a pack of asses," said Hubert, savagely, his opinions accentuated by dislike of his questioner. "Indeed I am not going." "Whew-w! You surprise me, Hubert. I thought you were a bit of a sceptic yourself?" "So I am, but I am not proud of the fact.
Several men were standing about the stove in Price's store, the fire having just started for the autumn and winter season, and, as they heard Sam's remark, one of them uttered a long combination of word and whistle that sounded very much like "Whew-w?" Sam turned quickly, recognized the man as one whom he knew to be not over-honest, and said,
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