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Updated: June 2, 2025
The floor was strewn with the various properties of the night's performance overturned stools, china mugs, bits of lemon-peel, stumps of cigars, and stray pipes; while scattered about under the piano and between the legs of the chairs, and even upon the steps of the staircase, were the pieces of coal which Fog-horn Cranch and Waller, who held the scuttle, had pounded into bits when they produced that wild jangle which had added so much of dignity and power to the bass notes of the Dead Man's Chorus.
He occupies the loftiest pulpit; he is in his teacher's desk seven days in the week; his voice can be heard farther than that of the most lusty fog-horn politician; and often, I am sorry to say, his columns outshine the shelves of the druggist in display of proprietary medicines.
He fired at the men in ambush, but a lurch of the car on the rough ground destroyed his aim. "Dolph Gage and his rascals at the ridge," bellowed Joe, in a fog-horn voice, pointing. Jim Ferrers dropped to the ground, hugging it flat. Harry followed suit. Tom Reade hesitated an instant, then away he flew at a dead run. Close to a tree Tom stopped, thrusting right hand in among the bushes.
Loud coughing and choking, mixed with a clatter of teaspoons and china and, amid a terrified silence, the fog-horn exclaimed: "Surely, Mrs. Gussie, I told you plain enough that sugar in my tea makes me sick." I apologized as well as I could, and repaired my want of attention, and then I felt my other guests must claim me, so I whispered to Antony: "Do go and talk to Lady Wakely, please.
They'll blow her over." The State chairman had started to leave, after his declaration. His automobile was purring at the foot of the steps. But he turned his back on the expectant chauffeur, and tramped onto the porch. "You don't mean to tell me that 'Fog-horn' Spinney is a dangerous candidate, do you?" "No, but Everett is! It happens once in so often, Luke a situation like this.
It is the Victoria that goes to Calais: we go to Ostend with the Empress." Butler-Vinson accepted this statement as true. An ear-piercing whistle sounded; the cables were drawn up: a vibratory motion told the passengers they were off. The mast-head light was extinguished: the mail-boat silently made its way out to sea. There was a dense fog in the Channel. The fog-horn sounded its lugubrious note.
"You've got to learn some time, I suppose, Joe, and here's where I learn to make harbour by the compass. Now we're in it!" At that instant the grey mist enveloped them silently, chillingly. Joe drew a long wail from the fog-horn and in response a similar but higher-keyed wail came through the fog from the Follow Me.
Each calls its own number, and the vessel's commander may thus avoid obstructions and guide the ship safely into the harbor. The submarine signal is equally useful in enabling vessels to avoid collision in fogs. Because water conducts sound much better than air, submarine signals are far better than the fog-horn or whistles.
At half tide this "spouting horn" throws up a column of water over sixty feet in height from a very small orifice, and the effect of the compressed air rushing through a crevice near it, sometimes with groans and shrieks, and at others with a hollow roar like the warning fog-horn on a coast, is magnificent, when, as to-day, there is a heavy swell on the coast.
Now and then he peered questioningly forward, but his gaze was defeated by the fog. At intervals Perry sent a groaning wail from the fog-horn. Presently Steve heard the boys talking on the bow and in a moment Neil's voice hailed him: "Surf off to starboard, Steve! Not very near, though." The others listened, but there was just enough noise from the engine to drown the sound heard by the lookouts.
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