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"Sing out, boys!" shouted Mark, "so the girls can hear you! It's time they were comin' to look after us." "Sing, yourself!" some one replied. "You can out-bellow the whole raft." Without more ado, Mark opened his mouth and began chanting, in a ponderous voice, "On yonder mountain summit My castle you will find, Renown'd in ann-cient historee, My name it's Rinardine!"
Another fault of superfluousness we find in the number of compounded words, where the meaning is obvious, such, for instance, as are formed with the adverb out, which the genius of the language permits without limit in the case of verbs. Dr. Worcester gives us, among many others, "OUT-BABBLE, v. a. To surpass in Idle prattle; to exceed in babbling. Milton." "OUT-BELLOW, v. a.
Yet the bos'n "cast loose" without further orders, and the "doctor" joined in with his bass voice. Then Chips and the rest bawled forth to the tune of "Blow a man down," and all the dismal prospect of the future in an overloaded ship, with bad food and a queer skipper, was lost in the effort of each one trying to out-bellow his neighbor. Sailors are a strange set.
But when the boy came in, there was such a bellowing and such a kick-up, that one might easily have believed that there were at least thirty. "Moo, moo, moo," bellowed Mayrose. "It is well there is such a thing as justice in this world." "Moo, moo, moo," sang the three of them in unison. He couldn't hear what they said, for each one tried to out-bellow the others.
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