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Lay out as far forrard as you can, an' pass the word for steerin'." Hozier obeyed. The discordant bleat of a foghorn came again, apparently right ahead. In a few seconds he caught the flapping of a propeller, and silenced the launch's engines. "We are close in now," he said to Coke, after a brief and noiseless drift. "Why not try a hail!"
Oh, yes, deadly still for a long minute's interval, and then out of the nowhere ahead, with a suddenness which each time caused his weakened nerves to vibrate like fiddle strings, would burst the bellow of the great foghorn. Silence, the splash and "sugg" of Galusha's sodden shoes moving up and down, up and down and then: "OW ooo ooo -ooo OOO!!"
If we were to study all the mental dispositions necessary or desirable for the ship officer, we should find many other qualities which are accessible to the psychological investigation. The captain of the ship, for instance, is expected to recognize the direction of a vessel passing in the fog by the signals of the foghorn.
Crouching there in the shadow, with the foghorn chortling hoarsely over the shabby trick, so it seemed to her, she stared back at the misty glow of the pier and tried to pierce the distance that lay between her and the lights of London, so many leagues away. HE was there, in the glitter and glamour of it all, but black with disappointment and wonder. Oh, it was a detestable thing she had done!
They took half an hour to force this, and were on the point of sending above for heavy equipment when it yielded enough for them to squeeze through. Fitzgerald, in the lead with the light, stopped short, looked around, and then gave a groan that came through his helmet-speaker like a foghorn. "Oh, no! No!" "What's the matter, Ivan?" Sachiko, entering behind him, asked anxiously. He stepped aside.
Captain Brisket, with a fine air of indifference, lounged after them, and peering over their shoulders obtained a good view of the approaching disturbance. His three patrons, with a hopeless attempt to appear unconcerned, were coming down the road, while close behind a respectable-looking old gentleman with a long, white beard and a voice like a foghorn almost danced with excitement.
A hand crank to make the fourth highest-power foghorn on the coast blow! I lost my patience. 'No ma'am, says I, 'a crank ain't necessary. I just put my mouth to the touch-hole, I says, 'and breathe natural and she chirrups. She believed it, too. I cal'late I'll catch thunder from Cap'n Jeth if he finds out what I told her, but I can't help it; there's limits, by Godfreys domino, limits!"
His men helped us in putting up our huts, which were of Italian design, and we had frequent exchanges of hospitality. Romano was a Regular officer, about 28 years old, with twinkling brown eyes and a voice like a foghorn even when speaking from a short distance away, but a fine singer. He had a wonderful collection of photographs, was a good Gunner and popular with his men.
On the yacht the conditions in this respect were as nearly perfect as possible; but some noise was inseparable from the ship's work letting go the anchor, heaving it up again, blowing the foghorn, and so on though most of the ordinary noises had been eliminated. As an instance of the constant care which was taken to save Mr.
He towered over Tom and Roger, and though shorter than Astro, he made up for this by sheer force of personality. When he spoke, his voice was like a deep foghorn that had suddenly learned the use of vowels. "So this is the great Polaris unit, eh?" he bellowed. "You're two minutes late!" Tom suddenly felt that he and his unit-mates were all alone in the corridor with the major.
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