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Updated: May 13, 2025
Gentlemen of the great and glorious West, I congratulate you!" The miners stood close around the bar. Every man's face bore a broad grin. At this point they interrupted with howls and cat-calls of applause. "Ain't he a peach!" said one to another, and composed himself again to listen.
Once out of the shadow of the trees he could see plainly enough, for dawn was breaking fast. The rear end of his train was in sight, about a hundred yards up the track; the head of it was hidden by the curve. From the cut he could hear derisive shouts and cat-calls, but from his own train not a sound. Puzzled and a little alarmed, he broke into a run.
For a moment the hideous thought forced itself into his soul that a life of unselfish public service was futile. In all this babel of jangling cries and cat-calls not one voice was lifted in decent protest. He felt that his work was a failure and he had been pitching straws against the wind.
General de Wrède had great difficulty in persuading him to enter the line, and as soon as he heard the fearsome cannonade of our artillery, he and his 3000 Cossacks trotted bravely off the field, to the cat-calls of the Austro-Bavarian troops, who witnessed this shameful conduct.
"Oh h!" shrilled the young women. The Doctor wiped his streaming brow. "What kind of a community is this, anyhow?" he resumed, stuffing back his handkerchief into his pocket. That's where we're groping; that's where we're floundering. Up popped a shock of black hair from northern Michigan. "It's rotten!" Shouts. Cat-calls. "I should think it was!" vociferated the Doctor.
He looked forward to the day when British soldiers would leap from their trenches and extend the hand of friendship to their German comrades. 'No me! said a solemn voice. 'I'm not seekin' a bullet in my wame, at which there was laughter and cat-calls. Tombs followed and made a worse hash of it.
He played with a delicacy that seemed to wind itself in threads of gold about the inner fibres of the soul. They listened to him as men bewitched. When the music ended, a great noise went up shouts and whistles and cat-calls. They were wild for more. But Green knew the value of a reserve. He laughed away the encores with a careless "Presently!" and called a young miner to him for a song.
Every now and then, the wailing of a heated, irritable infant rose above the din, to be quieted more or less angrily by its mother. John looked at his watch. "Most time to start," he whispered. Indeed, the audience was beginning to grow restless. In the rear rows, a claque started a steady handclapping, and cat-calls and hisses from unmannerly boys became more and more frequent.
This action was indorsed by the shouts and cat-calls of all present, accompanied by earthquake shakings of the coal-scuttle and the rattling of chairlegs and canes on the floor. Oliver rose to his feet and stood blushing like a girl, thanking those about him in halting sentences for the honor conferred upon him.
She shrieked with such terrible anger at those who insulted the mother of her child, that all their jaws fell and they shrank back and let her pass. But when she had gone a few paces up the road someone shouted something after her, and there was a noise of laughter and then of the shuffling of many feet behind her, and jeers and cat-calls and the beating of the tin can.
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