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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

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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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