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Upon hearing the approach of footsteps, she blew out this light, and through the hideous gloom the Too whit, Too whoo of an owl came from the cabin. Then several pairs of eyes began to gleam at the intruders out of the dusk, and all the while several throats went on repeating in ghostly tones Too whit, Too whoo. The chief pulled up his horse, while his companion shivered from head to foot.
A loneliness as of the end of the world came upon the two wanderers. Sick and dismayed, they stood in awe before this relic of the past. "Whoo! Whoo!" an owl's cry sounded from the black window openings. DeWitt spoke softly. "Rhoda, it's one of the forgotten cities!" "Let's go back! Let's go back to the spring!" pleaded Rhoda. "It is so uncanny in the dark!" "No!"
"To call hounds on when drawing a covert." "A prolonged swelling note to call them away." "A long single note when all are away." "Two short notes and a long one for 'Gone away." "'Tally-ho! back, on horn and crack of whip." "A rattle for 'Whoo, whoop."
He heard none, nor any sounds but the low of a cow whose calf was being weaned, the "Whoo! hoo! hoo!" of owls beginning to mouse beside the lake, and the creak of oars in a boat which darkness already hid. He straightened himself with a sigh of relief, and hastened at speed in the direction of the waterfall.
"I'll back the misthress any money," replied the maid. "Two to one on the masther," said the man. "Whoo! our side o' the house for ever! Come, Pether, hould up your head, there's money bid for you!" "Ellish, I'll fight for you ankle deep," said Katty "depind your life an me."
Whoo! whoo!" he said, loudly anything to gain a little time. "Anything you say, ma'am," he protested. "I've got to step down-town on some business," and the captain fled with ponderous footsteps out through the dining-room to the little side entry where he hung his hat; then a moment later he went away, clicking his cane along the narrow sidewalk.
He had pounced down upon the ax, which happened to be lying close by, and this he flourished around his head as he started to meet the figure that was scrambling up the little bank above the beach. "Whoo, somethin' jumped at me!" replied the startled boy, panting for breath; for he had fallen at least twice, in his haste to rejoin his campmates near the blazing fire.
Thunder an' lightnin', woman, who am I?" he exclaimed, in a loud, but rather infirm voice. "Am n't I Neal Malone, that never met a MAN who'd fight him? Neal Malone, that was never beat by MAN! Why, tare an' ouns, woman! Whoo! I'll get enraged some time, an' play the divil! Who's afeard, I say?" "DON'T GO," added the wife a third time, giving Neal a significant look in the face.
"Whoo, by the powers!" shouted Shamus, at last thrown off his guard by the surpassing joy derived from this intelligence, as well as by the effects of the ale; and at the same time he jumped up, cutting a caper with his legs, and flourishing his shillalah. "Why, what's the matter with you?" asked his friend, glancing at him a frowning and misgiving look. "We ax pardon, sir."
"Ho, ho," he shouted, "give us betther measure a little more of it the same tongue never was your own friend, nor the friend of any one else ha, ha, ho, ho, ho. There, that's one take it out o' that, will you? whoo, hoo hello, hach, ach! This for White-head, and this for Mary M' "
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