ye-hoo-o

Updated: June 23, 2025

Certainly he was an hour working at it; then he heard a sound that made his blood jump. From far away in the north it came, faint but reaching; "Ye-hoo-o." Rolf dropped his knife and listened with the instinctively open mouth that takes all pressure from the eardrums and makes them keen. It came again: "Ye-hoo-o." No mistake now, and Rolf sent the ringing answer back: "Ye-hoo-o, ye-hoo-o."

Ernest Thompson Seton - Rolf in the Woods