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Title: The Whistling Mother
Author: Grace S. Richmond
Posting Date: March 13, 2014 [EBook #6845
Release Date: November, 2004
First Posted: January 31, 2004
Language: English
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Illustration: YOUR BOY, IF HE IS THERIGHT KIND OF A BOY, HAS WORK
TO DO THROUGH A LONG LIFE
OTHING WILL HAPPEN TO HIM "A
MAN IS IMMORTAL TILL HIS WORK
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S DONE" THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS
TO THIS RULE, AS TO ALL OTHERS
BUT THIS IS STILL THE RULE]
THE WHISTLING
MOTHER
BY
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GRACE S. RICHMOND
[Illustration: musical notation.]
I have the greatest mother on earth. can't call her a "little mother," for she'
five feet six inches tall, and weighs jus
exactly what she ought to according to th
able of weights. If she were a trifle lesactive she might put on too much flesh, bu
she'll never keep still long enough for that
always enjoy having her along on an
kind of an outing, for she's game for jus
anything, and awfully good company, too
n fact, she seems more like a vigorou
girl than anything I can compare her with
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And I think her sons are mighty luck
chapsespecially just now that the wa
game's on.
Yes, that's a picture of Mother; neat little
holder for it, isn't it? Yes, I know; she
does look interesting, doesn't she? She'
an awfully good shot, and drives her owcar, and rides like a Cossack, and does
ot of other thingsnot to mention makin
homewellwhat it is. I suppose I'
rather braggy about her, but I tell you feel that way just now, and I'm going to
ell you why.... She's pretty, too, don't you
hink so? I thought you would.
The thing that started me off was Hoof
Gilbert coming across the dorm hall wit
a letter in his hand. We called him Hoofy
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because he hated walking so, and alway
drove his big yellow roadster from on
class to another, even if it was only
housand feet straight across the campus the next lecture. Well, Hoofy came in tha
dayit was just before the Easte
vacationlooking as if he were down an
out for fair. It turned out he'd written homabout enlisting, and he'd got back a lette
from his mother, all sobs. He didn't know
what to do about it. You see the fellow
were all writing home, and trying to brea
t gently that when they got there they'
have to put it up to the family to say "Go
and God bless you!" But it was lookinpretty dubious for some of my specia
friends. Their mothers were all right, a
awfully nice sort, of course, but when i
came to telling Bob and Sam and Hecto
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o enlistthey just simply couldn't do it.
Hoofy said he'd got to enlist, in spite o
his mother. He knew it was his duty, buhe'd rather be shot than go home and g
hrough the farewells. He knew his mothe
would be sick in bed about it, and she'
cling round his neck and cry on hishoulder, and he'd have to loosen her arm
and go off leaving her feeling like that
And his father would look grave and tel
him not to mind, that his mother wasnwell, and that she couldn't help itan
Hoofy really didn't think she could, bein
made that way. Just the same, he dreaded
going home to say good-byedreaded i
so much he felt like flunking it and wirin
he couldn't come.
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I told him he mustn't do thatthat hi
mother would never forgive him, and tha
he'd have to put on a stiff upper lip and g
hrough with it. And Hoofy owned that thawas the thing he was really afraid oftha
his upper lip wouldn't keep stiff but woul
wobble, in spite of him. And of course
breakdown on his own part would be thworst possible thing that could happen t
him. No potential soldier wants to feel hi
upper lip unreliable, no matter wha
happens. It's likely to make him flinch in
critical moment, when flinching won't do.
I was looking up at a picture of Mothe
on the wall over my desk as I advised hi
o go home, and he asked me suddenl
what my mother wrote back when I tol
her. I hated to tell him, but he pushed m
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about it, so I finally got out her letter an
read him the last paragraphbut one. O
course the last one I wouldn't have read t
anybody.
"It's all right, Son, and we're proud a
Punch of you, that you want to be not onl
n America's 'First Hundred Thousandbut in her 'First Ten Thousand.' We know
t will stiffen your spine considerably t
hear that your family are behind you
Well, we arejust ranks and rows of uswith our heads up and the colours waving
Even Grandfather and Grandmother are a
gallant as veterans about it. So go ahead
but come home first, if you can. You
needn't fear we shall make it hard for yo
not we. We may offer you a good dea
of jelly, in our enthusiasm for you, but you
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could always stand a good deal of jelly
you know, so there's no danger of ou
making a jelly-fish of youwhic
wouldn't do, in the circumstances. That'rather a poor joke, but I'll try to make
better one for you to laugh at when yo
come. When shall we expect you? No
we won't have the village band out, anwill try not to look as if we had a hero i
our midst, but we shall be awfully glad t
see Jack just the same."
When I looked up after reading this
Hoofy looked like a small boy who's bee
staring in a shop-window at a fire-engin
he can't have. He heaved a big sigh, an
said: "Well, I wish my mother'd take i
hat way," and went out, banging the doo
after him. And I got up and went over and
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ook Mother down and looked at her, and
said to her: "You game little sport, you
you'd put the spine into a jelly-fish an
ime. And I wouldn't miss going home tohug you for good-bye if I knew the firs
round of shot would get me as a result."
So then I packed up, and went arounand saw the dean, who assured me that
even though I didn't stay to finish m
Junior year, I'd keep my place and get m
dip, no matter how long the war lastedThen he looked over his spectacles at me
and said it was a good thing I was so tal
and slimit would be a crack marksma
who could get me, or even tell me from
sapling at five hundred yards; and w
grinned at each other and shook hands
Good old HamertonI hope he'll be ther
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when I get back. Then I wired Mother an
ook the train for home.... I don't know
why I always write and wire Mothe
nstead of Father, for I think a lot of mydad. But he's pretty busy at the office, an
not much of a letter-writer, except by wa
of a stenographer. Mother always give
me his messages in her letters, and when get home he and I talk up to date, and the
Mother and I go on writing again.
Just Mother met me at the trainthgirls were in school, and Dad not ye
home from the office. My kid brothe
hadn't been told, for fear he'd cut schoo
altogether. Mother had the roadsterand
t was shining like a brass band. Sh
ooked just as she always doestailore
out of sight, little close hat over he
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smooth black hair, and black eyes shinin
hrough a trim little veil that keeps al
snug. No loose ends about Mother, I ca
ell you, from the top of her stunning littlhat to the toes of her jolly little Oxford
over silk stockings that would ge
anybody. Even her motoring gloves ar
"kept up," as we say of a car, The sight oher, smiling that absolutely gorgeous smil
hat shows her splendid white teeth, mad
me mighty glad I'd come home.
Act as if I'd come to say good-bye, an
could stay only twenty-four hours?
should say she didn't. Kissed me, with he
hand on my shoulderglove offan
hen said: "Want to spin round the Circle
Jack, before we go home? By that tim
hey'll all be there."
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"Sure," I said, grinning at the car. We're
not rich, and I don't sport a car to go t
ectures with, like Hoofy and a lot of othe
fellows, so ours always looks darnegood to me when I get home. Mothe
understands how I'm crazy to drive th
minute I can get my hands on the wheel, s
without an invitation I put her into the seabeside me and took the driver's plac
myself. She settled down, same as sh
always does, and remarked:
"It's always so good to have you drive.
never shall get quite the form you have."
Which wasn't true a bit, for she drive
ust as well as I doshe ought to, I taugh
her. But she has an awfully clever littl
rick of making a fellow feel good, and
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ike itwho wouldn't? A lot of mother
never lose an opportunity to take a so
down a bitthough I don't suppose on
would whose son had come to sagoodbye. That same sort are the ones t
weep on their boys' shoulders, though, I'v
noticed.
We started off at a good clip, and righ
away Mother said:
"Now, tell me all about it," exactly as i'd just won an intercollegiate, o
something like that.
So I told it all to her, and was glad of thchance. I hadn't had time to write muc
about it, but I could talk fast enough, and
did; and she listenedwell, she listene
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ust exactly as another fellow would.
meanyou didn't have to colour the thing
or shave off anything, or fix up any dop
o ease it for her, because you knew shwanted it straight. So, naturally, you gav
t to her straightwhich is much the bes
way, if people only realized itfor it's al
got to come out in the end. And when was through, what do you suppose sh
said? Just about the last thing you'd expec
any mother to say:
"It's all perfectly great, and I don
wonder you want to go. Why, if you didn
want to go, Jack, I should feel that I'd bee
he wrong sort of mother."
Now, honestly, do you blame me?
ooked down at herI'm a good dea
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aller than she isand for a minute
wanted to get down in front of her amon
he gear-shifts and put my head in her lap
But of course I didn't do anything sdiotic as that. I just laughed and said
"Not you,"and put out my hand an
squeezed hersshe'd left off her motorin
gloves. And she squeezed back, andooked up at me with those black eyes o
hersand that was all there was of it, an
we were off again on details, with n
scene to remember. A fellow doesn't like
scenes.
Well, then we got back to the house, and
everybody was thereexcept Dad, and h
came soon. There were my two youn
sisters, Sally and Sue; and my kid brother
Jimmymad as fury because he hadn
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been told; and Grandfather an
Grandmother. Everybody was all smiles
and nobody even suggested that the tim
was shortwhich it blamed was. Dacame in and shook my hand off, and w
settled down to talk.
Pretty soon there was dinner, a perfectlripping dinner, with everything I like
ncluding tons of jelly, at sight of which
grinned at Mother and she grinned back
f you can call her gorgeous smile a grinAfter dinner the lights were put on and w
had some music, as we always do whe
'm homelittle family orchestra with tw
fiddles, a flute, my mandolin, and th
piano, and I noticed we didn't play any bu
he jolliest sort of things. Then Dad and
sat down again on the big couch in front o
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he fireplace to smoke and talk, with th
kids hanging round till long past their bed
ime. I went up with Jimmy, my twelve
year-old brother, when at last he waordered off to bed, and told him a lot o
yarns and made him laugh like everythin
which was rather a triumph, for I'd bee
afraid his eyes were a bit bleary.
When I came back everybody ha
cleared out except Mother. My heart cam
up in my throat for a minute, she looked spretty and young and regularly splendid
here by the fire. I said to myself: "I don
believe I can stand a heart-to-heart talk
and not break. But I've got to go throug
with itand I will, if it takes a leg!"
WellI've always called her my
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whistling mother. It's a queer title, but it'
hers in a peculiar way. She always could
whistle like a blackbird. She never did i
for exhibition; I don't mean thatI shoulsay notbut she did do it for calls to he
family, in the woods or in the house whe
here were no guests about; and she ofte
whistled softly over her work. Perhapyou don't think that's a womanly thing t
dobut it's better, from my point of view
it's sporting. For Mother's go
something of a temperyou'd know
anybody with so much grit must have
emperand lots of times when sh
wanted to be angry, suddenly she'd breaout in a regular rag-time whistle, and the
augh, and everything would be all righ
again.
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She and I had a special call of our own
one she'd made up. I'd know it anywher
n the world. It was a pretty thingjust
bar or two, but rather unusual. Well, as came in the door that night she looke
round and gave that whistle. I thought for
minute I was gonebut I bucked up al
right and answered it. And thatyes, iwas actually the only minute she gave m
hat evening that tried my pluck. She bega
o talk in the nicest, most matter-of-fac
way in the world. Not too awfull
cheerful, you know, overdoing it, but jus
as if I'd come home for the summe
vacation, and there was all the timanybody needed to talk things over. And
she kept that up. The only thing tha
marked the difference was that her han
was in mine all the time we sat therebu
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hat was nothing new, either, and didn
break me up at all. Maybe you coul
magine how grateful I was to her. Good
Lordwhat if I'd had to face a motheike Hoofy Gilbert's! What a chance to pu
a fellow on the grill and keep him there
his last evening at home! No wonde
Hoofy had dreaded to go.
She kissed me good-night, when w
broke up, in just exactly the old wayn
extras. Oh, maybe I did put a little mormuscle than usual into the hug I gave her
Mother's great to hug, just exactly like
girlbut that was all. We parted with a
augh. Afterward, when I was in bed, wit
he firelight still flickering on the littl
hearth in my old room, she came in, i
some kind of a loose, rosy sort of sil
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hing, and her long black hair in tw
braids, and stooped down and kissed me
and patted my shoulder, and went ou
again without saying a word.... Maybe didn't turn over then for a minute, and bur
my head in my pillow and have it out a bi
But that didn't count, because nobody saw
Next morning was just the same; and w
had the greatest sort of a breakfast
everything tasting bully, the way it does a
home, you know. Then I went down to thoffice with Dad, and saw the boys, wh
all came round and gave me the glad hand
and wished me luck. Everybody I met o
he street wished me that, except an ol
ady or two, who sighed over mebut
didn't mind them, they just made me wan
o laugh. Then home, and lunch, wit
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Mother looking ripping in the jolliest sor
of a frock. And we had lots of fun over
etter she'd had from some inquiring idio
who wanted to know a lot of things shcouldn't tell him; and she asked ou
advice, and of course we gave it, i
chunks. In the afternoon she and I too
another spin and, as I'd quite ceased tfear I couldn't see it through, it went of
mighty well.
I was a little owly about dinner, thoughbecause soon afterward it would be trai
ime. But I needn't have been. My famil
certainly is the gamest crowd I ever saw
Even Grandfather, who takes things rathe
seriously as a rule, told a couple o
corking stories, and Grandmother laughe
at them in a perfectly natural way, though
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couldn't help suspecting her of bluffing. O
course, when it came to that, I knew the
were all bluffing. But I tell you, a fellow
wants a bluff at a time like that, and hsn't going to misunderstand it, eitherno
from my sort of people.
The time came at last when I had to gup to my room and get my stuffand
knew what would happen then. Mothe
would come, too, and we'd say our rea
good-bye there. That's only fair to herand to me, too, for I wouldn't miss it, eve
hough it's the real crisis in every goin
away. Butthat nightwell....
Of course, you know, the room's full o
my junkthings I've had since I was
ittle chap, all the way up, to things I ha
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n my Freshman year and thought wer
awfully sportyand then discarded an
brought home to keep in remembrance o
my foolish youth. I'm pretty fond of thaold room. I don't need to explain tha
much, probably. Any fellow would know.
I took one look around before MothecameI thought one would be about al
hat would be good for me. The fire wa
burning rather brightly on the hearth, bu
'd put out the other lights.... Then Mothecame in.
If I hadn't caught a glimpse of her hands
shouldn't have known, but I did happen t
see them as she came in. They wer
clinched tight at her sides, just the wa
've often clinched mine before I went int
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a game on which a good deal depended
But the next minute her arms were roun
my neck in the old way, and she wa
holding me so tight I could hardly breathand I don't believe she could breath
much, either, for I was giving her bac
every bit of that, with some to spare.
have an idea she was saying, inside, "won'tI won't"just the same way
was. And she didn'tand I didn'tthoug
not to certainly pulled harder tha
anything I ever didn'tdo in my life!
She didn't keep me long. Just that on
great hug, and something else that goe
with it, and then what do you think sh
said? If I'd had a hat on I'd have taken i
off to her at that moment. She looked up
nto my face, and showed me hers, al
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smiling, and not a tear in her eyes, an
said:
"Jacky, you're a brick!"
And then I just broke out into a grea
augh of relief, and I shouted:
"Mother, you're a whole brickyard!"
And we went downstairs carrying m
uggage between us, and the worst waover, and the thing I dreaded hadn
happened.
Perhaps you think she ought to havprayed over me, and given me a Bible
and a lot of good motherly advice. Don
you think it! The prayers had been sprea
over twenty-two years of my life, and th
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Bible was all marked up with he
markings. As for the good advicewel
if she hadn't done her level best, lon
before that, to teach me to keep clean, anhink straight, and "hit the line hard"i
was too late to begin then. But she didn
have to begin then, because the thing wa
done, as well as any mother on earth couldo it. And if you think that little thumb
marked book wasn't in my bag at tha
minute, you don't think right, that's all.
Dad said a few fatherly things to m
before I went, like the all-round trump h
s, and I was glad to have him. I coul
stand that all right. But I couldn't hav
borne anything from Mothernot then
and she knew it. How did she know
That's what gets me. But she did, the wa
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she's always seemed to know thing
without being told. She's that sort, you see
They all went down to the station witme, in the seven-passenger, with Dad
driving. We didn't talk much on the way.
ried not to see the familiar old streets.
hadn't told anybody what train I was goinon, but some of my old friends found ou
and came down just the same, and wer
here in a bunch to send me off. The
hurried up to us, and shook hands anollied me, and everything was lively
When the train came in we all wen
ogether to it, and then I saw the boy
stand back and look at Mother. I don
know what they expected to see, but I'
pretty sure it wasn't what they did see.
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It was evening, but instead of putting o
an awfully stunning fur-bordered coa
over the things she'd worn to dinner, a
she usually does when she goes out in thcar at night, Mother'd taken the trouble t
go back to the tailored suit and little clos
hat she wears in the street and for driving
She knows I like her best that wayand certainly did that night. I can't tell yo
why, except that the things we've alway
done together have been mostly in street
and-sports clothestramping an
motoring and golfingand so forth. Sh
always seems more like a sort of goo
chum dressed like that than when she puton trailers and silky thingsthough, m
word! if you don't think she's a peach i
evening dress you never saw her. He
neck and shouldersbut that's neithe
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here nor there just now. The thing I'
elling is that she'd gone back to th
clothes that make her look like a jolly gir
and I knew she'd done it so I coulremember her that way.
It wasn't so hard then to go. It was al
over in a minute. Nobody hung round mneck. Even when it came to Mother, who
of course I always leave till the last, sh
ust gave me one good kiss, with her hand
on my shoulders, and then I jumped oboard. The train didn't linger long, fo
which I was mighty glad. When it pulle
out, and I looked back at them all standin
herethe whole bunch of them
suddenly I couldn't see them awfully wel
But I gave a big wink that cleared m
eyes, and saw that Mother was smiling
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ust as she always does, exactly as if I'
been going back to prep-school after m
first vacation home. It wasn't a tear
smile, eitherit was her very best.... I set now, sometimes, when I'm just droppin
off to sleep.
I've thought about that send-off a losince I got away. I've realized since, mor
han I did then, that it must have taken jus
sheer pluck on all their parts to see i
hrough as they did. Of course, my younsisters couldn't understand all it meant, bu
my kid brother's read a heap, as I easil
found out when we talked about it, and
know he had to do a few swallowings o
he throat on the side not to show how h
felt more than he did. As for Grandfathe
and Grandmother, they went through th
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Civil War, and they knew, better than any
of us, what might be ahead. Dadwell
Dad has wonderful control of himsel
always, and I should be surprised if I sawhis heart on his sleeve at any time, yet
knew perfectly that he felt the whole thin
remendously. He was banking on doin
his bit in the Home Defence League, anhe Red Cross, and everywhere else h
could get his hand in, and I could tell wel
enough that he was aching to be in activ
service.
But after all, it's the mothers, I think
who do the biggest giving when their son
go to war. I suspect it's what they put into
heir sons that stands for the real stuff i
he crisis. I don't think there are man
weak mothers, like Hoofy Gilbert's, eve
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among the ones who are invalids. But
wish more of them understood what it is t
a fellow to have his mother hold her hea
up!
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