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Updated: June 14, 2025
If it does that means I've got to tend foghorn as well as light. Godfreys!" Before they opened the side door of the Hallett home, the buzz of voices in the parlor was distinctly audible. Lulie heard the door open and met them in the dining room. She was looking anxious and disturbed. Martha drew her aside and questioned her concerning her father.
Five shillings? Thank you and three, Five and three. It's in it yet, boys only five and three and six, thank you. It'll do no harm at five and six six shillings? All done at six and six? All done at six and six?" "Seven shillings," shouted somebody with a voice like a foghorn. "They're Annie the Cadger's," said John, dropping to the ground.
"Officer, put every person except Mr. Britt out of this building!" But Watchman Dorsey, though he commanded and pushed, was not able to make any impression. "By my authority as bank examiner, I order this place cleared!" bellowed Mr. Starr. The folks of Egypt showed that they were greatly interested in the volume of voice possessed by "Foghorn Fremont," but they did not retreat.
It was an awful thought, enough to make Cuthbert's blood run cold, but before he could communicate his fears to any one he heard a roar as of a lion, and saw the factor come tumbling through smoke and flame he rolled over upon the earth once or twice, while the Virginia lad fairly held his breath in suspense, fearing that the valiant old chap might have received his death wound while battling with the flames; then, to the delight of Cuthbert, the factor struggled to his feet and began to hobble around as if he had a broken leg, meanwhile shouting out orders in that foghorn voice that made men spring to obey.
He gives a cheery trump of satisfaction from his foghorn, when he learns that his sail and his guests have been fetched from land. He has nevertheless paddled to such good purpose by six o'clock that he has covered seven miles from Cape Grisnez, albeit he is but five miles from the French coast, having been carried up channel by the current.
"Were you calling me, Captain Hallett?" Captain Jethro shook his big head. "Callin'!" he repeated. "I've been bellerin' like the foghorn for five minutes. A little more of it and I'd have run out of steam or bust a b'iler, one or t'other. Ain't been struck deef, have you, Mr. Bangs?" "No ah no, I trust not. I was ah thinking, I presume, and I did not hear you. I'm very sorry." "That's all right.
"He's found it," he roared, his voice almost rivaling the hoarseness of the far-off foghorn. "Sink me If that Dago wasn't so taken up with pipin' my antics that he's gone an' done it!" "Done what, sir?" asked Dick, seeing that his respected skipper was in hilarious mood. "Run his bloomin' Cigno onto the Scilla Shoal. Damme, I thought he'd do it.
It was only after considerable pounding of the table and repeated orders for silence that Captain Jethro succeeded in obtaining it. Then he explained concerning the foghorn. "It'll blow every minute from now on, I presume likely," he growled, "but I don't see as that need to make any difference about our goin' on with this meetin'. That is, unless Marietta minds.
A blast in my ear, like the voice of fifty trombones, galvanized me into full consciousness. The musician, smiling and tousled, was at my bedside, raising a foghorn to his lips with deadly intention. 'It's a way we have in the Dulcibella, he said, as I started up on one elbow. 'I didn't startle you much, did I? he added.
Out on the old Hog's Back we never had no visitors to speak of and we used to hanker for 'em. Here, by Godfreys, they don't give us no time to hanker for nothin'. And they ask such foolhead questions! One woman, she says to me yesterday, she says I was showin' her the foghorn, and says she: 'Do you have to turn a crank to make it go? Think of that!
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