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As the door swung open to his honking the horn, the light which streamed forth shone on a sign above, "Sprague Aviation School." Inside I could make out enough to be sure that it was an aeroplane hangar. "Hello, Sprague!" called Kennedy, as a man appeared in the light. The man came closer. "Why, hello, Kennedy! What brings you out here at such an hour?"
A flock of seagulls could be plainly heard honking high overhead, and a chattering flock of stormy petrels soared down, coming to rest on the water in the wake of the sloop. "I'll take in the jibs. Mind your wheel. We are in for a blow," announced the skipper. The captain quickly furled the jibs, then took a reef in the mainsail.
I have noticed sometimes that his honking is more steady and in a deeper tone, and that it is answered in a higher key along the line. For the first time in the history of the English dominion in India, its power has been shaken from within its own possessions, and by its own subjects.
Just beyond the enclosing hedge, a motor-car drew up, honking, at the curb, two far-flung paths of light whitening the street and a disused iron negro-boy hitching-post. Miss Goldstone reared back. "That's him!" "Effie!" "Let me go, dearie; let me go!" "But, Effie "
Sitting upright on the seat beside his master, the dog forgot everything else in the procession of crowding wagons and cars and people strange sights to his country eyes. He lost all sense of direction when, honking, feeling his way, Earle turned down this street and that, the crowd, the noise, the life ever increasing. Eyes aglow, the dog looked behind at the boy. Tommy was trying to sit up.
But the sun burst up from the plain, the prairie-chickens took up their mighty chorus on the hills, robins met them on the way, flocks of wild geese, honking cheerily, drove far overhead toward the north, and, with these sounds of a golden spring day in her ears, the bride grew cheerful, and laughed.
In the morning they gloated over his splendid fur and added his coat to their store of trophies. Following the Trap Line That night the moon changed. Next day came on with a strong north wind. By noon the wild ducks had left the lake. Many long strings of geese passed southeastward, honking as they flew. Colder and colder blew the strong wind, and soon the frost was showing on the smaller ponds.
And as she stood there waiting, the sky grew black above her head with the shadowing of wings, and the honking of the geese grew louder and nearer till they circled and lighted in a flock at her feet. She saw that they looked very plump and well-fed, and Grayking was the fattest of the flock.
"I've only a few minutes. I shouldn't wonder if we heard your car honking for you in half an hour. To make a girl like you look at a man like me would take days of eloquence, and, besides, who would think of marrying any one with his head bound up Turkish fashion as mine is now?"
Yet what the pleasure would be he felt in the joyous air, the exquisite sunshine, the flocks of wild-fowl flying North, honking on their course; in the song of the half-breeds as they ran the rapids. Of course, he did not think these things quite as they are written here all at once and all together; but in little pieces from time to time, feeling them rather than saying them to himself.
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