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Longstreet looked in the direction indicated and saw a gray cruiser with three high funnels making straight for the Ontario. At this moment a signalman delivered a wireless message to the captain: "The cruiser yonder wants to know our name and destination." "Signal back: United States hospital ship Ontario making for San Francisco," said the captain.
The speed is so easy, and the train disturbs so little the scenes through which it takes us, that our heart becomes full of the placidity and stillness of the country; and while the body is borne forward in the flying chain of carriages, the thoughts alight, as the humour moves them, at unfrequented stations; they make haste up the poplar alley that leads towards town; they are left behind with the signalman as, shading his eyes with his hand, he watches the long train sweep away into the golden distance.
The crew disappeared, all to the officers, man at the helm, quartermaster at the conn, and signalman. The first lieutenant had the book open on the drum of the capstan before him. "Make our number," said the Captain. It was done. "What does she answer?"
The men were constantly exercised at the guns, or in the use of the small arms, or in shortening and making sail, the frigate sometimes dropping astern to whip up the laggards, then crowding on again to recover her former position in the van of the fleet. Ralph was now regularly employed as a signalman.
Vol. i, p. 227. Three railway men are standing before a London coroner's jury a guard, an engine-driver, a signalman. A tremendous railway accident has hurried hundreds of passengers into another world. The negligence of the employes is the cause of the misfortune. They declare with one voice before the jury that ten or twelve years before, their labor only lasted eight hours a day.
But why they should call a four-decked ship the Holy Trinity, seeing as how there's only three of them, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I can't tell. Bill Saunders said that the fourth deck was for the Pope, who was as great a personage as the others; but I can't understand how that can be. Well, Mr Simple, as I was head signalman, I was perched on the poop, and didn't serve at a gun.
Bolt; then I suppose we must let the raft go." This electrified the ship. The captain ran up the mizzen rigging, and scanned the raft, now nearly abeam. "It IS a man!" he cried, and was about to alter the ship's course when, at that moment, the signalman hailed again, "How d'ye know?" "By the gulls."
"You jes' remember this here, Nancy," went on the signalman, who could no more refrain from pointing a moral when the chance presented itself, than a gun can help going off when the trigger is pulled; "nothin' good ever comes from breakin' laws.
The ship was long overdue for the dockyard, but the skipper and Pettigrew looked at each other, hardly able to believe their ears. "Lord!" muttered the former. "That means a week's leave, Sub. D'you realise that?" "Do I not, sir!" answered the Sub-Lieutenant, as the signalman retired with a grin.
But the signalman seemed quite broken down, and the children had to pat him and thump him for quite a long time before he found his handkerchief a red one with mauve and white horseshoes on it and mopped his face and spoke. During this patting and thumping interval a train thundered by.
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