A GOOD WORD FOR WINTER. 53 



Thoreau (unless the English lakes have a different dia 

 lect from ours) calls it admirably well a " whoop." But 

 it is a noise like none other, as if Demogorgon were 

 moaning inarticulately from under the earth. Let us 

 get within doors, lest we hear it again, for there is some 

 thing bodeful and uncanny in it. 



