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"Fire," cried one, laughing, "fire is just what we want without fire, no noodles; and to make fire we must have wood." "Whew! I have a big splinter in my finger," cried another soldier, who was on the roof, and had just broken off a plank; "I must draw it out and put it back, mustn't I, lieutenant?"
For a moment the ship was on a level keel, and taking advantage of this, when the weight of the gun would be neutral, another cable was passed around it. Then it was a comparatively easy matter to put on more lashings until the giant cannon was once more fast. "Whew! But that was tough work!" exclaimed Tom, as he once more entered the stateroom with Ned.
To his amazement, as the boy said "Listen," and raised his finger, Topaz at once sat up on his hind legs with his dainty white forepaws hung in front of him. "Whew!" and Gabriel began whistling a little tune in his amazement, and the instant the dog heard the music he began to dance. What a sight was there!
"I am afraid she is, Papa. I have just been writing to Tristram, to let him know she still insists upon coming to the shoot. She can't do anything there, and they may as well get it over. She will have to be civil to the new Lady Tancred in our house." "Whew!" whistled the Duke, "you may have an exciting party.
Andy replied, in trembling tones, as he strove to point toward something that he had seen just in the nick of time. "Whew! I should say you were right! Ain't he a dandy, though? And if I saw him at all, I thought it was a great big vine hanging from that tree! Ugh! look at him stretch his mouth, would you? Andy, thanks to your sharp eyes I'm here, instead of in his slimy folds.
Liza could not make it out, and was thinking she would be shut out, when just as the man who gave out the tokens for the day's work was pulling down the shutter in front of his window, Sally arrived, breathless and perspiring. 'Whew! Go' lumme, I am 'ot! she said, wiping her face with her apron. 'I thought you wasn't comin', said Liza. 'Well, I only just did it; I overslep' myself.
To Miss Schump, her hand on Miss Kinealy's shoulder and her head peering over, the voice seemed to trail off somewhere out into infinitudes of space, off into bogs of eternity, away and behind some beyond. "Gee! it's hot in here!" she muttered, no one heeding or hearing. "Sure hot. Whew!"
The echoes of the retreating footsteps of the men who had thrust them into their prison soon died away, and the boys were left to themselves in a veritable cell that was unpleasantly dirty and dark. "Whew!" whistled Joe, after a moment of silence. "This time we certainly are up against it!" Suddenly a light flashed in the darkness. "What's that?" asked Joe sharply.
Or the Knights of the Garter?" "They are new to me some school rigmarole, I suppose." "Yes. Then there's Scouts of the Gauntlet." "Worse and worse." "And finally the Guides of Mystery." "Whew!" "To be a free and accepted Chevalier of the Bath a fellow has to be a water-proof rat.
The interruption took something of the eagerness to punish Old Heck, Parker and the cowboys, out of the heart of Carolyn June. A bit of doubt that the role she and Ophelia were playing was worthy of true womanhood crept into her mind. When the widow and Carolyn June were alone Ophelia laughed. "Whew!" she exclaimed, "that was a strenuous party! I've danced till my feet ache!
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