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Updated: June 12, 2025
At this moment a voice was heard, calling out apparently from a distance, "Hilloa! where are you? Hilloa!" It was hoarse, strained, and distressed. Almost immediately the cry was repeated, much nearer at hand, as it seemed; and then, a third time, faint, and distant as at first. I was horror-stricken; the cry sounded strange and fearful, and I did not recognise the voice.
"Schooner, ahoy!" was the greeting of the stranger, and a simple "Hilloa!" the answer. "What schooner is that, pray?" "The Sea Lion, of Oyster Pond, Long Island; bound to the southward, after seal, as I suppose you know by our outfit." "When did you leave Oyster Pond and how did you leave your owner, the good Deacon Pratt?"
Hilloa! what the hell's the matter with the man now?" And well might he ask.
"She didn't appear to know I'd been away," he said. "She knew all the same!..." "She just said, 'Hilloa, Paddy I' and went on talking to the other people who were there too. I tried to outstay them, but Jimphy came in the first time, and there was a painter there the second time, who wouldn't budge. He's painting her portrait. I've not seen her since...."
As we neared the land, I threw my gun, without which I never left the boat, on the bank, preparatory to leaping out, when I was startled by hearing a loud, cheery voice exclaim in English, "Hilloa! not so fast, if you please!" and first the head and then the sturdy shoulders of a white man raised themselves slowly from the low shrubbery by which they were surrounded.
When the Duke came back To look for his wife, We came from Cologne, And took the Duke's life; We hung him mid high Between spire and pavement, From their mouths dropp'd the cabbage Of the carles in amazement. "Boo hoo! Church rat! Church mouse! Hilloa, Priest! have you brought the pyx, eh?"
To me above all others, whose ears, attuned to the "tally ho!" and the "view hilloa!" regarded these sounds as the sweetest of music? Why terrible?
As this was not very intelligible, and Jack seemed to have his own reasons for silence, they asked him no further questions; but in about three-quarters of an hour, during which time the coach had been driving through the trees, they came to a standstill by a sudden pull of the check-string from Jack, who said, "Hilloa! take in sails, and drop anchor." "Is this the place?"
We came up to him, and he took no notice of us at all, but kept on in the same way. "Hilloa!" shouted one. "Hilloa!" shouted another. No notice, however, was taken of us, and one of our number, a big, herculean fellow, an Irishman, seized him by the leg, either to make him get up, or, as we thought, to give him a lift over our heads into the sea.
"Hilloa, Mister!" cried the cause of all this confusion, "didn't you tell me ?" "I told you nothing." "But didn't I ask you if thar wan't some one overboard?" "You did." "And you said in reply " "I said nothing in reply." "Darned if you didn't! you said `Thar she is! or, `It was she! or something o' that sort."
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