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I am going to hire an office and put out a sign, 'Boy furnished to whistle for lost dogs. You see there are dogs lost every day, and any man would give half a dollar to a boy to find his dog. I can hire out to whistle for dogs, and can go around whistling and enjoying myself, and make money, Don't you think it is a good scheme?" asked the boy of the grocery man.
"Well, Lufton; what will you say when I tell you that I have put my name to a bill for him, for four hundred pounds?" "Say; why I should say ; but you're joking; a man in your position would never do such a thing." "But I have done it." Lord Lufton gave a long low whistle.
"Wo ist mein pannier?" exclaimed he, giving them the French synonyme. They shook their heads. "Wo ist mein basket?" he cried, giving them English; they shook their heads still harder. "Wo ist mein " "Whew w!" shrieked the steam whistle; "Ding a-ling-ling!" went the bell, and, leaving his question unfinished, W. ran for the cars. In our car was an elderly couple, speaking French.
Some ten minutes later, a clear, shrill whistle sounded far ahead, which was the preconcerted signal announcing that the scouts had come into touch with an opposing body of some description, and Dick immediately gave the order for the bodyguard to roll up their cloaks and hold themselves ready for action.
The guard waved his green flag. The whistle of the engine shrieked, and the train steamed out of the station along the burnside toward Huntly. Alec gazed down the line till the train was out of sight and then, turning, left the station and trudged homeward. When he reached Rhynie he had walked eight miles to look at a railway engine for two and a half minutes and he was happy!
He was the son of the president of the plow manufacturing company of which her uncle was treasurer. As they sat together by the stream the afternoon light began to fade and darkness came on. Before them across an open field stood a factory, and Clara remembered that the whistle had long since blown and the men from the factory had gone home. She grew restless and sprang to her feet.
What could happen to him there, where the distant whistle of a train was only heard at intervals, and where the wind carried the smoke it had torn away from the locomotive like a light cloud that rapidly vanishes? Just as if you were on the prairie, on the steppes, the boy thought to himself, where there are no longer any huts and only the camp fires send their little bit of smoke up as a token.
"As I said, Pete, I put the whistle in storage and I have already apologized for the way I used it," returned Jack. "I can't accommodate you in the arroyo again. I have other things to attend to." "Then the first time you get outside the limits of this town you will have to play my way a man's way!" "I hope not, Pete!" "Naturally you hope so, for you know I will get you, you " "Careful!"
'Ay, ay, sir, replied Cain. 'Hands about ship! now resounded with the boatswain's whistle on board of the frigate, and in a minute they were on the other tack. The Avenger also tacked and kept close under the frigate's counter.
He looked round the company, met Psmith's eye-glass, was transfixed by it for a moment, and finally turned again to Billy Windsor. "Say!" he said, and paused. "Obliged," he added. He shifted the cat on to his left arm, and extended his right hand to Billy. "Shake!" he said. Billy did so. Mr. Jarvis continued to stand and whistle for a few moments more.