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Marine and Military Signals Code Flags Wig-wag Semaphore Telegraphs Heliographs Ardois Signals Submarine Signals. In naval affairs some kind of an effective signal system is imperative. Even in the ordinary evolutions of a fleet the commander needs some better way of communicating with the ship captains than despatching a messenger in a small boat.
"Everything looks mighty friendly here just now," Sandy answered, "but look up on top of the ridge, and see if you can tell what George is trying to say to us. That's Boy Scout wig-wag, all right!" "Yes," replied Will, springing to his feet excitedly. "That's the Myer code, sure as you live, and he's got a big white pine bough he's using as a flag. Can you see what he is saying?"
"It's very good of you, Boots, but I can't do it." Lansing faced him: "Won't you?" Selwyn, smiling, shook his head; and the other knew it was final. "Well, the room will be there furnished the way you and I like it. When you want it, make smoke signals or wig-wag." "I will; thank you, Boots." Lansing said unaffectedly, "How soon do you think you can afford a house like this?"
"Here's a friend worth having," the raggedy tail seemed to signal in a wig-wag code of its own. Then the wrinkled hand went from the dog's head to the boy's shoulder with the same kind of an affectionate pat. "What's your name, son?" "Richard Morland." "What?" was the surprised question. "Are you a son of the artist Morland, who is visiting up here at the Milford bungalow?" "Yes, that's us."
"You read it, Cleo." The engine had not been turned off, so that it readily picked up speed again, as the girls waved gayly to Bentley. Cleo smoothed out the little note anxiously, and every one saw it was written on the old-time yellow paper. Cleo read aloud: "Bentley is going home and I won't stay here any longer. Watch for my wig-wag signal from the stone arch, and come to rescue me and Royal.
We flatter ourselves that we invented the wig-wag code with our little white flag. Maybe so; but the Dog had it long before we did. Why the Dog Turns Around Three Times Before Lying Down Yes, they all do it; the big St. Bernard, the foolish littlest lap Dog, the ragged street Dog; give them bare boards, or a silken cushion, or snow, three turns around and down they go. Why?
"Our signalman is being called from the advanced line, sir," reported a saluting sailorman. Wheeling, Trent ordered his own signalman to wig-wag, "Go ahead." Then the lieutenant stood reading the message. "You will fall back upon the advanced line," the signal read. "Send 'O.K.," called the lieutenant. "Sir," cried a sentry, "There's a party coming in. You can just make 'em out, sir."
As the two men entered and started to ascend the stairs, a door on the parlour floor opened and their landlady appeared, enveloped in a soiled crimson kimona and a false front which had slipped sideways. "There's the Sultana," whispered Lansing, "and she's making sign-language at you. Wig-wag her, Phil. Oh . . . good-evening, Mrs. Greeve; did you wish to speak to me? Oh! to Captain Selwyn.
A minute later he was out of the house. Tim went down near the gate. They began to wig-wag. At first the work was rusty. By degrees, though, as they corrected each other's mistakes, smoothness came and a measure of speed. Tim's eyes danced. Gee! but wasn't this fun?
The boy had cut a white pine climbing staff from which the small boughs had not been trimmed away, and Tommy saw that he was using this as a wig-wag flag. It was plain to the boy that George thoroughly understood the situation below. The detectives growled out several vicious oaths as they saw the boy swinging his staff from the summit.
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