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. 



