Next day the command started; when encamped, several days after, on the Republican river near the mouth of the Beaver, we heard the whoops of Indians, followed by shots in the vicinity of the mule herd, which had been taken down to water.

I wish I'd 'a' froze to him!" "Yep," said Buck One, "never seen that young feller when he looked more like he wouldn't give a whoop in hell to change places with anybody.

At the sound I heard Ringan cry out, and there came a great war-whoop from the mouth of the ravine.

You can't tell when his mind is in condition for running amuck, but suddenly he will whoop like a drunken man, strike his poor patient wife over the back with his trunk and grab her tail and try to pull it out by the roots, and jump up and crack his heels together like a drunken shoemaker, and bellow as though he was saying he was a bad man from Bitter Creek.

the hunters whoop to you.

They were, as I had thought, a half squadron, and they formed a double line with a front of twenty-five, their officerthe one who had whooped at meat their head.

Well, Si hadn't more than finished before the whole crowd was off whooping down the street toward Binder's.

Can those be the gay cavaliers who are now uplifting their war-whoops with such a modest grace at Richmond and Montgomery?

A loud whoop for the artists was answered again and again.

"When I got out I turned loose a couple more whoops on the clear morning air just to let them know that I was still on the job, and took a casual survey of the disaster.

If a darky sass a white land owner he would be whooped bout his account or bout anything else.

Edd and George answered to it with whoops as wild, and they galloped their horses over ground and through brush where they should have been walked.

Indeed, sir, if I drew blade, if I as much as raised a finger, both sides would come swarming all over usrebels a-looting and a-shooting, Indians whooping off my cattle, firing my barns, scalping my tenantsrebels at heart every one, and I'd not care tuppence who scalped 'em but that they pay me rent!" He clinched his fat fists and beat the air angrily.

Once they started circling the valley, low down and just missing the tops of the trees growing there, Andy, sent vigorous whoops after them, and his father answered by waving his hand, for hat he had none.

It sounded like the whoop over the taking of a scalp or the capture of a prisoner, and his curiosity was aroused.

Old men with the flat tone of coming senility in their voices will suck at their pipes and cackle reminiscently while they tell you of Casey's tumultuous youthwhen he drove the six fastest horses in Colorado on the stage out from Cripple Creek, and whooped past would-be holdups with a grin of derision on his face and bullets whining after him and passengers praying disjointed prayers and clinging white-knuckled to the seats.

" The boys could not hope to rival Virginia's Indian costume, but no wilder-looking little savages ever uttered a war-whoop than the two which presently dashed into the still April woods.

That very week the Puants had galloped at midnight, whooping through the town, and swept off from the common fields a flock of Le Page's goats and two of Larue's cattle.

The path by which they had emerged on the burial-place was narrow and winding, and they were soon hidden from the sight of the Indians; but they heard their wild whoop among the rocks and bushes, and knew that they were in eager pursuit.

Following the seminary, in an unprecedented sequence of luck, was a boys' school, that came whooping up the stairway like a tribe of young Indians, in charge of a venerable sachem in spectacles.

We rode with a whoop into the camp which Dad had had in his mind all morning, and found it a paradise.