An owl hooted dismally, whoo-hooo!

Before them, standing black against the night-sky, rose the quaint, ponderous, but broken walls of the ancient stronghold, where an owl hooted weirdly in the ivy, and where the whispering of the waters rose from the deep below.

It hooted irritably, furiously, as the car tore through the village.

" Hefty had hooted hoarsely: "Ya-a-as you are, you big bluff!"

It hooted irritably, furiously, as the car tore through the village.

THE OWLS [Hooting joyfully.]

No runner could keep pace by Caoilte's side, And ere the Fians, following in his path, Had wended from the deep and dusky strath, He swept o'er Clyne, and heard the awesome owls That hoot afar and near in woody Foulis, And he had reached the slopes of fair Rosskeen Ere Finn by Fyrish came.

The clock in the little church struck two and an owl hooted mournfully in the belfry as silently our cortege plodded up the steep incline.

" There is fancy in these of a lower order from "Bonduca": "Then did I see these valiant men of Britain, like boding owls creep into tods of ivy, and hoot their fears to one another nightly."

Strange voices called through the fog, sirens hooted to one another persistently.

It hooted again, once, twice, placably, at the turning of the road, under Karva.

The frogs resumed their roaring, the night-birds lifted up their voices; the raccoon called to his fellow, and was answered away off in the forest; the pile-driver hammered away at his stake, the old owl hooted solemnly from his perch, and we retired to our tents to talk over the romance of our serenade, and to dream of Ole Bull and the Swedish Nightingale.

Presently they fell back, and the organ, in the hands of an amateur performer and an inadequate blower, began to chirp and hoot merrily, by which we knew the bridal party was about to appear.

They hooted the king, and, still more bitterly, the queen, as they advanced.