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.

But you ask, "what inspiration can there be in a moon and stars, that we see every night, when the sky is cloudless; in a desolate wilderness; the roar of the frogs; the hooting of owls; these useless waters; the phosphorescent flash of lightning bugs; these piled up rocks and barren mountains?

Under the circumstances, with Erastus and Toby to help guard the camp outfit, Andy's crowd did not dare lift a hostile hand; but they took especial pains to hoot at the little company as it wheeled past, making more or less sarcastic remarks, and yet being careful not to go too far.

"I knew the old boy, and he wasn't the sort to care a hoot in Sheol for treasure, buried or unburied.

An owl was hooting from a distant tree, and the hum of innumerable insects sounded on every side.

A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard.

A couple of owls were hooting to one another across the garden, and far away a dog barked at intervals.

Again, at nightfall, a cub's hunting cry, ooooo, ow-ow! ooooo, ow-ow! a deep, almost musical hoot with two short barks at the end, would come singing down from the uplands; and the wolves, leaving instantly the game they were following, would hasten up to find the two cubs herding a caribou in a cleft of the rocks,a young caribou that had lost his mother at the hands of the hunters, and that did not know how to take care of himself.

When it was quite dark he commenced hooting like an owl, having previously transformed himself into one.

Rollo, with his hoots on, took hold behind to push, and Jonas drew.

He never seemed to care a hoot about the working end of the business, so long as it produced dividends.

[Footnote S: This friend of his boyhood, with whom Wordsworth spent these "delightful hours," is as unknown as is the immortal Boy of Windermere, who blew "mimic hootings to the silent owls," and who sleeps in the churchyard "above the village school" of Hawkshead, and the Lucy of the Goslar poems.

He said he had sat by us as our friend, till the King's Ministers joined in the hoot against him.

I think that a man who refuses to join from conviction, at the risk of being hooted as a coward, is probably doing a braver thing still.

We had ridden but a little way forth of the town when we heard a great din of shouting and hooting behind us, which made us women afraid; and presently a noisy rabblement of people came running up.

The debates in the Parliament became warmer than they had ever been since the days of the Fronde: the citizens, sharing in the excitement, thronged the palace of the Parliament, expressing their approval or disapproval of the different speakers by disorderly and unprecedented clamor; the great majority hooting down the minister and his supporters, and cheering those who spoke against him.

"The world's all title-page; there's no contents; The world's all face; the man who shows his heart, Is hooted for his nudities, and scorned.

He was taught that hooting owls were very jealous of their night hours and whenever they hooted near a field of workers they were saying: "Task done or no donenight's my timego home!"

Farther it may be said, that Mr. Gifford hazarded his first poetical attempts under all the disadvantages of a neglected education: but the same circumstance, together with a few unpruned redundancies of fancy and quaintnesses of expression, was made the plea on which Mr. Keats was hooted out of the world, and his fine talents and wounded sensibilities consigned to an early grave.

The report hooted through the Polar night.

Stangrave longed to catch hold of the boy, and extract from him all news; but the blackamoor was not quite in respectable company enough at that moment; and Stangrave had to wait till he strutted proudly up to the door, and entered the hall with a bland smile, evidently having taken the hooting as a homage to his personal appearance.

" What was this hooting in the Rue de l'Echelle?