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Updated: May 18, 2025
The words long-and-short apply strictly only to the outer row of stitches. You begin, that is to say, with alternately long and short stitches. If you work after that with stitches of equal length, they necessarily alternate or dovetail. No matter what the stitch, one must be able to draw in order to express form: it is rather more difficult to draw with a needle than with a pen, that is all.
You can read this article to your wife, or she can read it, as she prefers; that is, she chooses whether it shall address her eye or her ear. But the long-and-short alphabet of Morse and his imitators despises such narrow range. It addresses whichever of the five senses the listener chooses.
Several times already, on this account, she has helped young men who were in straits; and when I told her your story, and what you were ambitious to do, she clapped her withered old hands together and said, 'I will give him a chance, Mr. Chelm, I will give him a chance! He reminds me of my Tom. And that is how it came to pass. There is the long-and-short of the matter. Accept?
Or course, this strange whistling caused considerable wonderment on the Canada side until a shrewd operator recognized the long-and-short telegraph letters, and communication was at once established important messages being transmitted by steam whistles a gigantic system of broadcasting. This was a simple way out of a sublime difficulty involving the affairs of two great peoples.
The captive at Murdock's side tried to stir, but Ross's hand pinned him quiet. The shrill noise which had originally summoned the man at the lights was interrupted by a sharp pattern of long-and-short sounds, and his hands flew even more quickly while Ross took in every detail of the other's clothing and equipment. He was neither a shaggy tribesman nor a trader.
One boat would have screamed, "Europa, Europa, Europa," from night to morning, and the other, "Arabia, Arabia, Arabia," and neither would have been mistaken, as one unfortunately was, for a light-house. The long and short of it is, that whoever can mark distinctions of time can use this alphabet of long-and-short, however he may mark them.
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