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Updated: June 6, 2025
They had ceased firing and stone-slinging; they were flying for their lives. Courtenay wheeled round on Suarez. "Now!" he cried, pointing to a speaking-trumpet. Suarez ran out on deck, put the megaphone to his mouth, and roared after the discomfited enemy a threat of worse things in store if they dared to come near the ship again.
Try her yourself, Mr Nourse," continued the captain, "I'm sick of her;" and with a heightened colour he handed the speaking-trumpet over to the first-lieutenant. "York, you're wanted," observed the lieutenant abaft to the marine-officer, dropping down the corners of his mouth. "York, you're wanted," tittered the midshipmen, in whispers, as they passed each other.
"Another pull of the fore-staysail, Mr Hardsett," cried Captain M through his speaking-trumpet. "Ay, ay, sir; clap on him, my lads," replied the boatswain, holding his call between his teeth, as he lent the assistance of his powerful frame to the exertions of the men.
The old Italian opera form is laughed at to-day as an absurdity by Wagnerians, who see nothing absurd in a many-legged monster with a donkey's head uttering deep bass curses through a speaking-trumpet; and perhaps to-morrow the Wagnerian music-drama and the many-legged monsters will be laughed at by the apostles of a new and equally absurd convention.
Thus we made ready for fight; but all this while we kept out to sea, with wind enough, and could see the boats at a distance, being five large longboats, following us with all the sail they could make. Notwithstanding this, they came on till they were near enough to call to them with a speaking-trumpet, bidding them keep off at their peril.
We rode very carefully down our side, and through the soft grass at the bottom, and all the while we listened as if the air was a speaking-trumpet. Then gladly we breasted our nags to the rise, and were coming to the comb of it, when I heard something, and caught John's arm, and he bent his hand to the shape of his ear.
Chirrup in company, there is a certain complacent twinkle in it, accompanied, perhaps, by a half-expressed toss of the head, which as clearly indicates what has been passing in his mind as if he had put it into words, and shouted it out through a speaking-trumpet. Moreover, Mr. Chirrup has a particularly mild and bird-like manner of calling Mrs.
Griffith threw his speaking-trumpet on the deck, and as he walked proudly away, muttered in bitterness of feeling: "Then all is lost, indeed! and among the rest the foolish hopes with which I visited this coast."
I'm a peaceable man, and aboard they call me Billy the Lamb; but, by the Lord Harry, if I catch you sneaking about, or trying to find out where I and this noble gentleman be agoing, I'm blest if I don't split your skull in two with this here speaking-trumpet."
Buckley," said the Captain; "which is unnecessary, as it is just what your father will do. Fight, sir! hunt 'em down. Shoot 'em! They will give you no quarter: be sure you don't give them any." A wild discordant bellow was here heard from the ship, on which the Captain slapped his leg, and said, "Dash my buttons, if he hasn't got hold of my speaking-trumpet."
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