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Updated: June 24, 2025
The advantage of the wig-wag lies in the fact that no apparatus is necessary and communication may thus be established for short distances almost instantly. Its disadvantages are lack of speed, impenetrability to dust, smoke, and fog, and the short ranges over which it may be operated.
"Sure I did," answered George. "And I brought him back, didn't I?" "You didn't bring him back to camp," Will answered. "And you're the fellow who wig-wagged to us to come and escort the two of you home," continued Will, addressing George with a laugh. "Sure I wig-wagged," replied the boy. "Then why didn't you stay there until we came up and tell us what you wanted. You're a fine boy to wig-wag!"
"Jimmie will talk again in a minute." The boys waited patiently for some moments, and then the wig-wag figures came again. Will read slowly: "There's a 'V', and an 'E', and an 'N', and a 'T', and an 'N', and an 'E', and an 'R'," he said. "Now the boy's starting it again. He says, 'Ventner is here. Now wait a minute, there's more coming!" "The next words are: 'With two others."
Those in the launch looked back. The man on shore waved a red flag in a peculiar way, almost as the soldiers in the army wig-wag signals. In another moment the launch turned about, and put for shore, while the lone man hurried back into the hut. "Hum!" remarked Tom. "Those are queer actions." "Suspicious actions, I should say," said Mr. Whitford. "I'm going to see what this means."
Upon completing their task, Tom stood up for another view of the beach which they were approaching. "Look, Jack!" he cried. "Can you see the boy over there wig-wagging at us? Isn't that the Boy Scout wig-wag?" "Sure enough, it is!" declared Jack excitedly. "Take this flag and answer him. You're in a good place up there." He passed the flag up to Tom as he spoke.
The telephone has not been found feasible, wires breaking all the time; so their wives have learned to wig-wag to them. "One night they got a scare on shore; thought that the men on the Longships were sending up distress signals. It was bad weather, and every now and again the coast-watcher saw a green light on the Longships. And what do you think that green light was?
"I want you to look Mother Scanlon up when you get back to New York," Nestor said. He might have given some reason for the remark, only Jimmie and Frank awoke and called attention to signals on the mountain. "I know that wig-wag game," the latter said. "Keep still and I'll tell you what he says."
I didn't seem to see any of the troop, I only just saw my mother standing, maybe kind of unsteady like, and listening to Jake Holden. Then all of a sudden I walked straight over to where the Ravens were all sitting on the cabin roof. And I spoke to Wigley Wig-wag Weigand.
The men separated at the foot of the slope and scattered up and down the gulch. It was clear that George's wig-wag signals had been seen, and that the men were in search of the two boys. "Those signals of yours must be effective," snarled Katz as the members of the party across the gorge began exploring the caverns. "You're right, they are!" answered George. "That's the Boy Scout wig-wag!
He considered the methods of communication employed by the army in connecting the various units. One by one he discarded them. The semaphore would serve only for short distances and then only when the boats were within sight of each other. The same argument would apply against the wig-wag. The heliograph would be useless in stormy weather or in fog.
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