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Updated: June 22, 2025
They pointed it out to others, and as the orders were strict to report anything out of the way, someone shouted to the nearest look-out. A cry went over the ship, and there was hasty wigwagging of the signalman, and three of the destroyers leaped away like hounds on the chase.
At the first suspicious crack the moose whirled, hesitated, started nervously across the stream, twitching her nostrils and wigwagging her big ears to find out what the crackle meant, and hurrying more and more as the sounds grated harshly upon her sensitive nerves.
"And there's the dear old flat-iron," the "flat-iron" being the name bestowed by the boys upon the monitor Tonopah because she set so low in the water and was shaped not unlike one, her turrets sticking up like bumpy handles. "Look, Polly! Look! Some one is wigwagging on the bridge of the Olympia.
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.
"There is only one person on the machine, and that must be Ned." Jack was about to throw open the top panels when he caught sight of the aeroplane again, nearer to the water than before. "What's Ned doing?" he asked, pointing upward. "Talking!" exclaimed Frank. "Wigwagging!" Harry broke out. "Now, let us see what he says."
"Yes, I remember it all now wigwagging it was," the tenderfoot went on to say with eagerness, and not a little satisfaction, because he had recalled everything that Thad wanted him to. "Allan was to go up to the top of that little bare hill back of the camp, and two of the other fellows were to hike over to another about a mile or so away.
This was a signal for prolonged cheering on the part of the crowd. But the noise stopped When a single individual carrying a black and white flag stepped out into the course and began wigwagging. He was signaling to another individual at the garages, who in turn transmitted his signal to the starting line in the dim distance down the beach. "That means everything is ready.
"I knowed it: started three hours late an' now he's trying to make it up in the last mile," Hopalong muttered, dexterously spreading the tobacco along the groove and quickly rolling the cigarette. Lighting it he looked up again and saw that the horseman was wildly waving a sombrero. "Huh! Wigwagging for forgiveness," laughed the man who waited.
"I think they saw us," whispered Dagmar, "I heard one girl say some one was hiding by the signboard." "We should worry," flippantly replied Tessie. "I guess they are too busy thinking about their old wigwagging to notice mill girls." "Oh, you're mean, Tessie. I think they are real nice. They always say hello to me."
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