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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932.
CHRISTMAS ABOARD
THE "CARDIGAN
DUTCHY GETS INTO TROUBLE
E reckons it's a psuit Co“ the discipline of the ship, an' the ol man, im bein' is cousia, e backs "im up, an' blowed if 'e don't out the grog issue out of our Christmas -dioner,-na' muck the ol' thing up.
"Po'try," said the saloon deck. man to me, "is stuff wat I can't say as 'ow I agrees with. I only know one bit myself, that there bit in the rule of the road about Wo was very upset about this green to green nu red to red per Pere, you can bet, an' we knocks fect safety go s'ead, but I were spots out of Opkins for writin' such orrible stuff, an' just as we're shipmates with a feller once as finishin' 'im off, the senior appren could write it by the mile. Optice, 'oo was a very bright boy, e comes along ar" tells us 'ow we can king, 'is name was' an' 'e was" a
score off the mate, an' get our own very clover bloke, like most sailors, back in a manner of speakin'. butle was a bit too smart once, an' 'e went an' mucked up our Christ'en we tells 'im Christmas Day, mas dinner, to say nothing about ol' Dutchy's "front tooth."
The safnan deckman stopped to examine the empty bowl of his pipe and to go through the pantomime of searching for his always absent tobacco, and I pushed my pouch in his direction.
ri. To
was on the ol' Cardigan we're this appened," he resuined, when his pipe was drawing to his satisfaction.
Wot's to-day 1,', 'e asks u8, 482
tells us, "An so's to-morrow, because we cross the hundred and oightieth meridian to-night, so you get two Christmas Days this year, so you stick up for your rights, an' we talks it all over, an decidos an' don't do no work to-morrow,
that Opkins shall tell the mate
'en e comes to turn us to next day, that we'er goin' to 'ave our rights,
So, next mornin', the mate lo comes along at eight balls an' talks about sand an canvasting the brightwork, an' 'Opkins tells 'im. wot we've decided. The monte, e #A great big lump of a four-listens quiet, an' then 'e tell us we're all wrong, ant points out wot masted harque she was, owned by a thinks of us, an' as we're stand- Welsh firm, an' all the officers an'in' wonderin' wot to, de, poor ol' the ol' man was uncles an' cousins to each other. Rea! Welsh she was, one of the 'six days out of Cardiff an' short of provisions' sort, an' very fine run. We didn't get too fat there, I can tell you..
"The ol' man's
name
Dutchy, an' couldn't speak English proper, an' didn't know wot it was all about, 'e 'ad the misfortune to say 'Christmas Day'.
"An' that just shows you, sir. Po'try ain't no good to no one, you take my word. Not to no one."
"Wot!' says the mate. 'You argue with me woteffer? Christaise Davinteet! It's-Boxing-Day,' an' was with thate Innils poor ol' Datchy Morgan, an' the mate, 'oo was one that knocked ali 'is front teeth
cousin, whis called
Ed-down 'is neck, an' we went on with wards,
all along the work. an it wer this fere mate that the trouble first started: We ad come out from 'ome with a general cargo for Sydney, an was lying there waitin' for a charter, w'en this 'ere mate decides to 'ave a bit of bont wailin' to pass the time away an' to give the apprentices a bit of work, in reckoning they was getting too much time off. ushere with the girle, 'oo they was makin' up to so as to get invited to their 'omes for a food.
It was a Sunday w'an 'e decides this an we was lyin' out in Neutral Bay, lyin' light, an' with abig 'igh side out of the water. It was blowin' fairly 'ard, an' there was quite a nice little sea runnin', an' this 'ore mate, oo was a great ore for tryin' new ideas, 'e reckons e'll step the mast an' set the sails before lowerin' the boat down to the, water; an', the wind bein' about two points on our starboard bow, 'e says as 'ow as soon as the boat takes the water an' is un'ecked, the boy in the bow will pusher sad off, an' she'll fill the jib an' kail clear of the ship" on the port tack.
This 'ere all sounds very good, an' ev'ry one's pleased except the boys, 'oo'ad dates with some young tarts at the Seamen's Mission, w'ere they would 'ave free tea an, cakes. an nick out en the prayers start- ed an' go an 'ave a good blowout at the 'omes of these fere girls w'one mothers used to take pity on 'em for bein' such innercent little chaps and so far from their own. dear fathers an' mothers, little: knowin' wot young 'oprids all sp- prentices really are.
Well! Ev'rything goes well un- til the boat reaches the water, an' then the fan starts. –As soon as the bont gets afloat, they finds that there's a bigger sca. runnin' than ad seemed from the eight of our deck, in' the bloomin' boat is liftin! about six feet every time 2 Wave passes "underneath 'er," an' 'they' 'as the fall of a job to get 'er un'ooked, an' w'en at Inst they does, the boy in the bow.can't push 'er 'ead off with the pressure of the wind against the jib, so that she just drifts astern, sa wien she gets un der the counter, blowed if she don't -lift up: on the inest ead catches under- the edge of one of the plates. of the ship, an' the bloomin' mast smashes just over the thwart, an' comes down on the mate's Rends nearly knockin' 'Imi willy, and the boat drifts to a long ways away astern, an they as to pull back to the ship with all 'anda, lookin' on un' passin', 'uncomplimentary re- marks
Of course, the mate wasn't pleas. I ed about all this, an' "fim antithe of', mau 'ad a family row shout bristip the mast an' makin' a lot "of expense, but next day wall guts orders to go to Newcastle to Lond i fall cargo of coal for Valparaiso, an' in the general excitement, it all gets forgotten
Well.; We-eventually gets pur cargo, an' gets away an ing dae: course, the time" works, round – ta Christmas Day, an' then this “org "Opkins_gets-buny doin' some of "is petry, an blowed If e don't tarn out a real comic' about the mate vanilin fin. boat in Sydney, Hon! fanny it was, antall, full of
an' sich in fo'c'ste laughed till wo was al
LITTLE PIXIE MAN
BY JOHN THORPE
I saw an owl
Beneath a modu No bigger than
silver spoon
It-roundly blinked Its funny vyes) Which made it lock".
Extremely wise.
And then I saw"
A pixie man
In russot shoon
Who lightly ran
Up the small hall
Close to the moor No bigger than
A silver spoon.
I looked again,
He was not there.
A thing that "seemed
To me most queer.
I looked to left,
I looked to right,
But that small man
Was not in sight.
I heard the owl,
In hoarse dismay Screech loudly--then It flow away.
And then I saw
The little moon” "No bigger than
A silver spoon
Had vanished too--
Bewildering
To witness such.
daring thing.
Exploring ✨✨ England By Motor
A Christmas Adventure.
The advent of Christmas always the gale." Snow was shooting along. reminds me of an experience I once above the ground, and although it had to show that seasonable wea- | was now a down grado we were ther and the spice of adventure in blown practically-to-a-standstill.- travel,may happen upon us even in those days of saloons and the (shinglot
To stôɗt, we had to lean out-and- watch for the outline of the rend sido," for the snow swept up in our', With a friend and my little two faces in flurries that blinded us.
Then came a stretch where, the scater I was exploring a remote valley in the hill country, sepa-wind was broadside on-and that rated by two mountain passes from meant drifts which could only bo civilization when a real blizzard negotiated by rush tactics Bach went down upon us. Impressed drift seemed deeper that the last, with the argoncy of getting over and it was touch and go that we those pass before they became in got over this section. Five passe prozaptly cut and ran minutes later and we must have
and w stuck.ti kak
When the ground is frozen hard And dry, now gives a reasonable grip When, too, there is no high wind there no drifting; but here was a gale of forty m.p.h., and snow falling on a Dearly fro- zen surface,
Then came ten miles of winding switchbacke, By now the road had amassed enormous drifts of, weird and wontierful contours, first on this side, then on that. These had to be seen somehow, ant avoided, while apend was more than ever,
Our wheels would sink in and essential.ha compress it to a half-inch of slip And always it seemed a blinding pery mush. So the only hope of cloud of driven anow, would rise A surmounting even the gentlest gra-1 & crucial moment. Surely no Hug dient was to keep up a spanking ger three has ever performed such tricks, speed for speed, as our pace, analer by
Uphill the slowest speed at which gallant little car over that stretch. the wheels would grip was nearly Every rise called for a healthy 20 m.p.h., and that day, ona momentum, well sustained, cost narrow, winding, switchback road; what it might in skids and bumps." in the teeth of an easterly gale, In the sheltered dip before it there with drifte to dodge, and banks of | would be "a"drift, "axle-deep, right snow blowing up in our eyes at in across the road; so we had to tervals, how to maintain oven so change gear before the dip-going. moderate à speed soon became an downhill, na fast as the drifts and wind would let us: (If there was a exciting problem.
noise in the gear-box I never heard. it!)
On the first climb" we stuck, but luckily there was a cottage in sight
and a shovel was forthouming. We In fact, the whole way there was
got going again by scraping the
that joyous thrill that anything road for sufficient distance to get might happen." up enough speed to carry us over the top.
Who says that motoring devoid of adventure! Even with Soon the road rounded the cars as good us they are to-day! shoulder of the hill in a new dir Seasonable weather will soon proj ection and met the full force of vide it,
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SANTA CLAUS "A GOOD SPORT"
It is Christmas-but there is no need to hug the fireside. Happy people, healthy people, are those who get out into the open and have a good time. Give something this Christmas to help those you love to have a jolly time outdoors.
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