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'She's signallin' to the south of us. Bannister knows as well as I that one rocket would bring the Breslau. He'll no be wastin' fireworks for nothin'. Hear her ca'! "The Grotkau whustled an' whustled for five minutes, an' then there were more fireworks a regular exhibeetion. "'That's no for men in the regular trade, says Bell. 'Ye're right, Mac.
Says I, when I heard you tappin', 'That's Cap'n Hocken, says I, 'signallin' me to come an wish him joy, an' maybe to join him in a drink over his luck. And why not? says I. 'Stranger things have happened." "You'll excuse me. . . . If he's in his garden, I want a chat with him." Cai hurried out to the front door. "Maybe you'd like me to go with you," suggested Mr Philp, ready for him.
"Do you mean to tell me that you ain't agoin' to land when there's dry ground right over there, with people signallin' and waitin' to help you?" demanded the showman, his temper whetted by his fright. The Cap'n esteemed the question too senseless to admit any reply except a scornful oath. He at the wheel, studying drift and wind, had pretty clear conception of their whereabouts.
I'd ha' given a year's pay for ten minutes o' your signallin' work this mornin'." "I wouldn't 'ave took it up," was the answer. "Perishin' 'Eavens above! Look at the Devolution's semaphore!" Two black wooden arms waved from the junior ship's upper bridge. "They've seen it."
He didn't want another inquest on his estate. No, sir! So I had to fix her up in the dark. Ya-as! 'I took big chances, too, while those other three held on to her and I worked her up to full power. My Renzalaer's no ventilation-fan to pull against. But I climbed out just in time. I'd hitched the signallin' lamp to her tail so's we could track her.
"There's mother signallin' the heggs and bakin is done," said Peggotty, looking back at the cabin, where a white apron waved out of one of the port-holes that served for window. So we turned and left this haunted spot, where, with the ebbing tide, twenty-three wrecks, one after the other, thrust forth a rugged rib or a jagged spar to remind the passer-by of a tragedy.
"Fer instance, there is yer signallin'. Ye should be able to make each letter without thinkin' how it is to be made. And I want yez to practise up the Morse system, as well as the Semaphore. It'll come in mighty handy at night, when ye can't use the flags. Yez kin never know too much." The scouts found great pleasure in carrying out the captain's suggestion.
"I reckon you'll find, son, that the signallin' an' th' vamoosin' of our late friend Four Eyes had some connection," spoke Old Billee. "We, bein' intent on our game of cards, didn't know nothin' at all 'bout it till you fellows rode up. Now it's about time we got int' action!" "You win!" declared Yellin' Kid loudly.
We'd picked up our tramp, an' was about four mile be'ind 'er. I noticed the wardroom as a class, you might say, was manoeuvrin' en masse, an' then come the order to cockbill the yards. We hadn't any yards except a couple o' signallin' sticks, but we cock-billed 'em. I hadn't seen that sight, not since thirteen years in the West Indies, when a post-captain died o' yellow jack.
I've heard men say that they don't mean nothin' by their swearin'. P'raps the psalm-singin' men might say the same; but for my part if they both mean nothin' by it, I'd rather be blessed than cursed by my mates any day." "The admiral's signallin', sir," sung out Luke, putting his head down the companion at that moment.
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