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There is a hush! No one speaks. The whole essence of vitality strains to listen. A faint whir crescendoes rapidly into the shrill whoop of a steam-siren, and a great balloon-shaped cloud of smoke and dust has already arisen from amidst the marching mass of men ahead. There is no sign whence came the shot.
He negotiates with lightning speed the interspace between his tortured stomach and the second penguin's provender, whilst his own steam-siren screech of famine comes feebly halting after, and blends with the desolate plop of his prey into the abysmal emptiness of his ever-yearning epigastrium.
Mrs Pettigrew, screaming like a steam-siren and waving a broom, occupied the foreground. In the distance the maid was shrieking in a hoarse and monotonous way, and trying to shut herself up inside a clothes-horse on which washing was being aired. On the dresser which he had ascended by a chair was Billy, the acrobatic goat, doing his Alpine daring act.
"The one to which I allude is a small brown animal with a fluffy tail." "Yes, and a bark like a steam-siren, and, in addition to that, about eighty-five teeth, all sharper than razors. I couldn't get within ten feet of that dog without its lifting the roof off, and, if I did, it would chew me into small pieces." "I had anticipated that difficulty, sir.
By this time, according to the girl's account, it was roaring like a steam-siren. "Pretty dear!" says the old lady, fumbling with the cord, "don't cry; mother's opening it as fast as she can." Then she turns to the chambermaid "If you open my bag," says she, "you will find a bottle of milk and some dog-biscuits." "Dog-biscuits!" says the chambermaid.
"Oh, I am, precious!" Lucille sighed. "I was only thinking about Bill." "What about Bill?" "Well, it's rather awful to think of him tied for life to that-that steam-siren." "Oh, we mustn't look on the jolly old dark side. Perhaps Hallo, Bill, old top! We were just talking about you." "Were you?" said Bill Brewster, in a dispirited voice. "I take it that you want congratulations, what?"
The steam-siren of Ferris bellowed again: "You're the boy! Joe Smith!" "All right, men now mind what I say! I'll see the super, and then I'll go down to Pedro, where there'll be some officers of the United Mine-workers this morning. I'll tell them the situation, and ask them to back you. That's what you want, is it?" That was what they wanted. "Big union!" "All right.
"Hurrah for the union! Hurrah for the United Mine-Workers!" A big American miner, Ferris, was in the front of the throng, and his voice beat in Hal's ears like a steam-siren. "Boys," Hal resumed, when at last he could be heard, "use your brains a moment. I warned you they would try to provoke you! They would like nothing better than to start a scrap here, and get a chance to smash our union!
"And now they're payin' their respects to each other and tryin' to get clear," the red-faced man went on, as the hurried whistling ceased. His face was shining, his eyes flashing with excitement as he translated into articulate language the speech of the horns and sirens. "That's a steam-siren a-goin' it over there to the left.
Part of the Senior class had been having a little choir practice in one of the town restaurants. It was a lovely affair and there wasn't a more cheerful crowd of fellows on earth than they were when they marched down the street at one A. M. eighteen abreast and singing one of the dear old songs in a kind of a steam-siren barytone.
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