What the ideal-maker tries to do is to set holy standards that shall not pass away: to do abiding work, in thought, deed, word; work philosophically planned, and perseveringly carried out; work which he shall do regardless of the outer circumstances of his lifepoverty or wealth, of threats, misunderstanding, or hoots of scorn.

The old owl hoots mournfully, the frogs bellow hoarsely along the reedy shore, while the tree toads are quavering from among the branches of the scrubby trees that grow along the rocky banks; the whippoorwill pipes shrilly in the forest depths; the breeze murmurs among the foliage of the tall old pines, while the everlasting roar of the waters, as they go tumbling down the rocks, is always heard.

" "Aye, master, and look'ee nowmy signal shall be three owl-hoots, master, look'ee!"

Accompanied by war-songs from the warriors and hoots and yells from the squaws and fiendish children, the unfortunate men were being brought across the river in triumph, and then a deep hush fell upon our garrison, as every person within the walls bent forward anxiously to get a glimpse of those who were being carried to the theatre of a terrible death.

The people that still remained in the amphitheater and the circus received him with hoots and hisses.

Do I hear you, gentle reader, exclaiming, like the Scotsman when he first saw a hippopotamus, "Hoots!

It will be royal fun to see the British soldiers come down from the Government House, and hear the hoots and howls the Broadway and Vly boys are bound to give them.

They were more likely to be greeted with hisses and cat-calls, sticks and stones, stale eggs and decayed cabbages, hoots and yells of derision, and decorations of tar and feathers.

We heard wolf yelps and owl hoots in the distance, but were not approached by prowlers of any kind.

About 2.30 o'clock on a May morning a rook begins the grand concert with a solo in G flat; then a cock pheasant crows, or an owl hoots; moorhens begin to stir, and gradually the woodland orchestra works up to a tremendous burst of song, such as is never heard at any hour but that of sunrise.

Some school-children being in the road the driver emitted three loud warning hoots of his horn.

The shouts, screams, groans, hoots, and clapping of hands, suddenly ceased, and a dead silence ensued.

And, knowing, make allowance for his ways, If hoots of ignorance and stones and jeers Martyr your latter days; But for such shoddy patriots as join The street-boy's manners to a petty mind, And dealing little in true-minted coin Tender the baser kind.

As the regiment, still moving resolutely onward, approached within a few yards of them, there fell the first volley of stones, accompanied with hoots and jeers of derision.

"Hoots, Jock, you're daft," says he.

"Hoots, lads," she said.

"Hoots, Mac," I said, "ye must ha' hit it an awfu' swipe.

Hoots, though mebbe they'll no put me in jail if I say I liked a wee drappie o'

Your hound hath broken bounds again, And chased my timorous deer, O; If him I see, That hour he'll dee; My brakes shall be his bier, O." "Hoots! lord, speak not so proud to me!

No sooner had Mr. Rose left the room than Wildney, his dark eyes sparkling with rage, leaped on the table, and shouted "Three groans, hoots, and hisses, for a liar and a coward," a sign of execration which he was the first to lead off, and which the boys echoed like a storm.

Father Antonio, Agostino, and Baccio stood forth in the balcony, and, drawing in their breath, looked down, as the three men of the hour, pale and haggard with imprisonment and torture, were brought up amid the hoots and obscene jests of the populace.

I wheeled the horse into the pasture, meaning to let him tire himself, for he was really running away with me; when, all at once, I saw a hundred terror-stricken savages rush out of the sugar-house, stand staring a second, then take to their legs with most doleful cries and hoots and piteous howls.

o' my sight!" The children, only too delighted to escape, rushed forth with whoops and hoots, demanding to be shown their hero, General Gates.

But there were ejaculations, sometimes mere hoots and cat-calls, sometimes crisply-shouted sentences rose into the air.

Hoots!