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After innumerable voyages aboard men-of-war and merchantmen, fishing-schooners and chebacco-boats, the old salt had become master of a hand-cart, which he daily trundled about the vicinity, and sometimes blew his fish-horn through the streets of Salem. One of Uncle Parker's eyes had been blown out with gunpowder, and the other did but glimmer in its socket.
When father had that typhoid and could not sleep dear father! in his normal condition he sleeps like a bag of corn-meal who was there in all the house to keep those boys quiet? Nobody but me. When they organized a military company in our back yard directly under father's windows two drums, a fish-horn, a jews-harp, a fife, and three tin pans was there anybody but me to put a stop to it?
Any child can blow it. It's as easy as a fish-horn. If I hadn't these horses to attend to I'd blow it myself. Come on come on! Kerrigan, what's the matter with you blowing it?" "The truth is, Mr. Culhane," explained Mr. Kerrigan, the very dapper and polite heir of a Philadelphia starch millionaire, "I haven't had any chance to practice with one of those for several years.
"Give them a blast on that fog-horn and see if they answer," said Rob suddenly. Hiram took up the big brass fish-horn, used as a fog signal on the Flying Fish, and blew a loud, long call. After an interval of waiting, from out of the mist came the wail of the stranded ship's siren once more. "There she is, right in there," declared the captain, pointing seaward into the mist.
Even the sound of its fish-horn now provokes me to evil thoughts. But we were in a bad way, and, to my wonder, I found my sentiments perceptibly softening. Before the thing caught up with us, I had actually resolved to take it. We made signals of distress, and, rather contrary to my expectation, the machine stopped.
From the sunny world out-of-doors came a pleasant blending of many noises, passing wagons, the low talk of chickens, the slamming of gates, and now and then the not unmusical note of a fish-horn. Footsteps and laughing voices went by, and died into silence. The clock from Town Hall Square struck eleven slowly. "This is darned pleasant," said Barry presently, over his work.
Cold as it was, his shirt was open at the neck, he was bare-headed, and he had not stopped to pull on his boots when he arose from his bed. In his right hand he carried a battered "fish-horn," and without seeing Mark and Andy he stopped and put this instrument to his lips, blowing a blast that made his eyes bulge and his cheeks turn purple. "Hold on, Mister!" ejaculated the hunter.
In a moment he was out with all his paraphernalia. To me was given a fish-horn of portentous size and sound. The 'skips, which were the old fashioned straw hives that the bears so often emptied for our forefathers, stood in a large door-yard, over which the swarm was circling.
There was Tim Reardon, mounted on an aged truck horse, that drooped its head and ambled with half-closed eyes, as though it might at any moment fall off to sleep again. Sticking like a monkey to its bare back was Tim, his face hidden behind a monstrous mask, his head surmounted by a battered silk hat, extracted from a convenient refuse heap; a fish-horn slung about his neck by a string.
"Keep your bugle handy and sound it when Wort says, 'Charge!" Juggie proudly brandished a fish-horn which he had borrowed of Simes Badger. "Shoulder arms!" screamed Wort. "Ground arms!" "Ow, my teeth!" squeaked Pip, whose foot had been vigorously rammed by Billy Grimes. "Order arms! Present arms! March! Charge!"
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