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Updated: June 9, 2025
And whichever seen a coyote first would wigwag to the other one..." A baby trout, taking advantage of the pail tipping in the current, gave a flip over the edge and interrupted Billy Louise's fancies. She gave the pail a tilt and spilled out the other two fish. Then she filled it as full as she could carry and started back to pay the price of her sympathy.
At a sign from Lieutenant Bowers, the eager sailormen parted in front of the airship, which, after a brief run, soared gracefully once more. Behind Lieutenant Bowers stood a sailor with a signal flag. "Step to the rear," Bowers directed, over his shoulder, "and wigwag back: 'O.K. Stopped only for assistant. Sign, 'Bowers. "Aye, aye, sir," answered the signalman.
It will be used on radio systems, submarine cables using siphon recorders, and with the heliograph, flash-lantern, and all visual signaling apparatus using the wigwag. For the flag used with the General Service Code there are three motions and one position. The position is with the flag held vertically, the signalman facing directly toward the station with which it is desired to communicate.
"We'd go up the canyon and have the caves for our play-houses. Minervy could have the secret cave away up the hill, and I'd have the other one across from it; and we'd have flags and wigwag messages like daddy tells about in the war. And we'd play the rabbits are Injuns, and the coyotes are big-Injun-chiefs sneaking down to see if the forts are watching.
As he was unique in that respect on board the ship, he often did duty as interpreter. The boat landed in a little cove. After parleying for a while, one of the landing party was seen to wigwag. A few moments later the boat returned, bringing three Cubans, one of whom was the Cuban governor of Matanzas. The others were a captain and commander respectively.
"That is the letter 'C'." From the vertical Frank then dropped his body over to the left, then to the right and stopped. "That's wigwag for 'O'," thought Jack. "I wonder what he means to say?" "Well done!" shouted French, his hands full of tinned goods. "I'll get you a job in a circus when I get done with you!" "That will be fine!"
If General Shafter had had competent and experienced officers to put in command of these boats, and steam-launches to tow them back and forth in strings or lines of half a dozen each, and if he had made provision for communication with the captains of the steamers by means of wigwag flag-signals, so as to be able to give them orders and control their movements, he might have landed supplies in this way with some success.
The pole which had been used to convey the wigwag signals was now out of sight. "Can you boys operate this boat?" he finally asked. Jack was about to reply in the affirmative but Frank lifted a warning hand. "No," the latter said, telling the falsehood brazenly. "Ned is the only one who can run it." "Can't you start the engine?" French asked, anxiously. The boys shook their heads.
"Hugh, what do you think?" demanded Thad. "You're up in all that kind of wigwag signal work, and perhaps now you could tell what it means." "I lost some of it, I'm sorry to say, fellows," observed Hugh, gravely; "but all the same I caught enough to tell me that waving of a light was meant as a signal message, though who sent it, and to whom, is all a mystery."
In the American navy the present methods of communication are by the use of flags representing numerals, by the Meyer code of wigwag signals, and by a system of colored electric bulbs suspended in the rigging. The latter system is called after its inventor, Ardois. In the daytime, when ships are within easy distance, wigwagging is commonly used.
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