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Updated: June 9, 2025
They look like wings in their pin-feather stage only they are on the wrong side and I am wondering if the black stockings would make real black wings and what some of us would do with them, after all!" After that there was less pompous dignity and less hysteria, although the toes continued to wigwag.
Paul, when doing his wigwag act, had been careful to keep the crest of the hill between his flag and that suspicious quarter where the smoke column was lazily creeping up, as smoke has a habit of doing just before rain comes.
He hoped that his mother would allow him to stay for the finish so that he could see Nick receive the cup. He watched, jealously, anxiously, the stunts of the other scouts, but none of them could be mentioned along with Nick's signalling. One morning Nick sauntered down to the shore, Peter with him. "Going to wigwag?" they asked him. "Maybe, if there's anyone to wigwag to.
Signalling between the Castle and the hills had been going on for days. The absence of the "wigwag" system made it impossible to convey intelligible messages. Truxton King was growing haggard from worry and loss of sleep. He could not understand the abominable, criminal procrastination. He was of a race that did things with a dash and on the spur of the moment. His soul sickened day by day.
The combination in various ways is used to express the numbers from one to nine and cipher, so that the numbers, to four digits, contained in the signal-book, may be displayed. The Myer wigwag system is employed either by day or by night. Flags and torches are employed.
Bella herself sat near a window, negligently posed, reading the 'Journal of a Summer in the Country, over which she had now hung for three hours in speechless admiration, breakfastless, and with her slipper-ribbons not yet tied. 'I must see what becomes of Wigwag, she replied to Mundus, as he called through the door that he was eating all the eggs.
Having watched the result, Dellarme turned with a confirmatory gesture, which the corporal translated into the wigwag of "Correct!" The shrapnel smoke hanging over Fracasse's men appeared a heavenly blue to Dellarme's men. "They are going to start for us soon! Oh, but we'll get a lot of them!" whispered Stransky gleefully to his rifle. Dellarme glanced again toward the colonel's station.
Wells has perfected a method of signalling by means of wigwag, light, smoke, or whistle which is as simple as it is effective. The fundamental principle can be learned in ten minutes and its application is far easier than that of any other code now in use. TRACKS AND TRACKING, by Josef Brunner. After twenty years of patient study and practical experience, Mr.
No use talking if there isn't anyone in town to listen." "Scout Harris talks whether there's anyone to listen or not," one said. "Shall I bring the card to wigwag with?" Peter asked. "No, don't bother. Got some matches? Never mind if you haven't." Peter ran back and got some. "If you're signalling tell them not to hurry with the school, we can wait. Scout Harris is giving us an education.
A wigwag came from Gen. Shafter, asking whether the Gatling guns had been landed. The reply, "No; may I use pontoons?" was answered at once, "Use pontoons, and get off immediately." On returning to shore with a party to work the pontoons, the party was stopped in the act of launching the first boat by Gen.
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