Do you mean it sounds like "Boohs", if that's the case then it is "Booze"
I think it's...
1) the cave was dark and gloomy.
2) The cave was spooky and narrow.
3) Jack could hear a spooky noise in the cave.
4) Jack could see a black bat in the cave.
( hopefully this is correct, sorry if by chance my answer is incorrect)
In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving is saying that the values in American society lie in the wrong place chosing wealth and financial prosperity over the well-being of others.
Irving sees America becoming greedy and warns the reader not to follow Tom Walkers ´s path that led him to exchange his soul to the devil blinded by his ambition for money.
This statement reflects the popular themes of individualism in the romantic era. The American romantics believed that a man's choices decided his fate. Washington Irving shows how Tom chooses the wrong direction that led him astray from the true values of humanity.