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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
The SHIP that was
NOT LOST
AT ALL
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O the man in the street, crossing the Atlantic in anything smaller than
the Queen Mary is a bit
of an adventure-io cross it in a small sailing vessel about the size of the ship Columbus used 19 suicidal
Yet the people of Tollesbury, Essex, never gave up hope for ono moment--never even doubt od that Endeavour would come Why shouldn't she? home safely. Well-found ship, in perfect trim, with a useful set of storm sails and a sen anchor for riding out the Kolca. What more could you want? they ask simply.
Ocean salling is one of the hardiest of pursuits, yet there are hundreds of amateur sailors throughout the country who would give their right hands for the chance of salling the En- deavour from west to east.
The men abourd her laconicully regard it na just another job, and although a great fuas was made of then when they got back, they will be the last to claim or oven to realise that they have done anything out of the ordinary at all.
Come with me aboard an Imaginary racer, on her way hack from the States. It has been an exciting day for the crew nhoard the Trler. Half a gale has been blowing, and doesn't show
any signs of letting up. The tow rope with which she was being dragged back by the luxury yacht Evviva has carried away, and there was an exciting and hectic time while the pin which held 90 fathoms of wire towing line was knocked out, so that Trier's bows will not be pulled under by the terrific weight.
~Then there was a bit of fast work while a sea anchor was put over forward, so that Trier will drift easily with her bows into the wind. Uncomfortable. for she is tossing like a good
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·To-day's Thought BUILD
me straight. tharthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly.
vesicl. That shall laugh at all disaa-
ter,
And with wave and whirlwind torcstle, -LONGFELLOW.
The mystery Endeavour
0/ toas
cleared up yester- day: She la near-. ing home and never rcas "lost."
'un, but safe, at any rate for the time being,
The ordinary sea-anchor con- sists of a large canvas bag, with one end held open, something like the wind-sock you see nying over un airport. It is wide at one end and narrows rapidly.
It is made fast to the yacht with a long length of rope, and as the wind blowe Trier astern, the pull of the water on the sea-anchor keeps her head-on to the wind,
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that very slowly she drifts astern, preventing the heavy seas Irom breaking over, and fldiag easily and gracefully like a seagull,
To the layman the revolation of what a cea-anchor means amazes him. To ride safely through half a gale, with hatches and deer- ways battened down, and all hands save one down below snugly play- ing cards and smoking peacefully
And to hear of Captain Voss, the Inventor of a special type of sex- anchor, who sailed right round the world in a canoe to prove that he could face any kind of weather so long as he had his sea-anchor with him.
The yacht Trior has been specl- ally rigged for crossing the Atlan- tle, to be prepared for any emer- gencies. The Western Ocean can be very nasty towards the end of Beptember, if it likes, so in addi tion to the ordinary working salla she will carry her storm salts and two or three different sizes of Apinnakers.
Probably she will carry_A_square_ Ball but will not use it-square salis need so much gear to set them that although their easy steering la a great advantage, they are too much trouble to be worth bothering with.
Probably on Trier all hands ex- cept the skipper and the cook-the two most important people aboord -will be on Swedish watches. which mean 14 hours on duty one day and 10 the next, giving each man a change of duty every day. Leisure time will be passed in sleeping, in repairing tears in gaila and wear in socks, in tidying up, in playing cards and in reading.
The galo blows itself out within
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by
Edward
CARR
the next few hours, and the men of Trier settle themselves down to make the best of a steady north- westerly wind which logs them about 11 miles an hour in the direction of the Irlah coast, couple of thousand miles away.
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Life regains an even tenor, The only worry is listening in to the wireless messages which are flood- ing the ether. (Trier has a receiv- ing set aboard, to get the weather forecasts, but no transmitting set. For what would they want trans- mitting set? They are doing a job of work like any other saltors, and they don't particularly want to talk to the shore till they get there, all ready to discuss the Arsenal resulta over a pot of beer).、
Destroyers are searching for them. Aeroplanes are searching for them. Hope is being aban- doned. Some ship has reported seeing them 500 miles east of their actual position.
Another ship has seen them 150 Hope is not being aban- north. doned. Their wives are facing the situation boldly. ("And why not?" demands one of the crew. sturdily, "It's only these hysterical shore folk that are makin' all the fuss.") ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄Now hope is being ̈aban- doned again.
"Bhut that dratted thing off." someone demands.
"Nay," says another Armly. "Tune in to the English stations. It's Henry Hall's farewell party to- night, and I want to hear Gracie Fields."
And so the days roll by-the wind comes on strong, and they reef down, and then the wind dies down, so that they roll and slat about heavily in a flat calm-but It's all part of the day's work, and Trier reels off the miles between her and the Irish coast (for they are northing all the time) unt
STREET GAMES In Bygone DAYS
(JOSPEE! Hospee!"
1937.
comes the
the street, and the boy who has been biding his eyes in a comer called the "den" issues cautiously forth and secks for the hiders.
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Presently, having gone some dis tance along the street, he gets glimpse of a red head poking out from an entry, and immediately shouts, "In for you, Jock Tamson!" and rushes for the den before the "lued" boy can catch him up.
That mysterious word "hospee" is Just a corruption of "Spy, often known as hide-and-seck, which was one of the most popular street games of our boyhood, inany years ago.
"King" www andther exciting running game, where the boy in the
of the road having shouted all rushed from one side to the other, and those who were enptured in the crossing joined forces with the solitary beginner.
"Cavey," or-prisoners' base, was something similar, though played along the street, and giving great
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East Bound (nesa.Down)
Tues. Thur,
Fri. Sun.
STATION
Tugs. Thur.
Frl. Sun.
(Dolphin)
(Dolphin)
7,00
LY HANKOW
Ar
14.00
8.15
LY KIUKIANG
Lv
12.45
0.35
LV WUHU
1.v
11.25
10.20
Ar NANKING
Lv
10.40.
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West Bound.
(Read Down)
Mon, Wed. Sun, Tue.
Fri Thu. Bat.
STATION
Swi. Tur. Mon, Wed.
Thư. Sat
FIL
(DC-2)
(Loening)
(Loening)
(DC-2)
11.43
8.00
LV HANKOW Ar
17.10
11.15
0.40
LY KHASI
Ly
15.45
10.40
Ly ICHANG
Lv
14.45
13.00
LY WANHSIEN. Ly
12.25
15.00
Mon, Wed.
Fri
14.40
Sun. Tue. Thu. Sal
Aг CHUNKING LV
10.30
8.00
Sun Mon. Wed. Fri. Tuoi Thu
(81Inson)
Bat.
(Stinson)
18.10 17.10
(Stinson) 18.10 17.10
LY CHUNKING AF Ar CHENGTU Ly
(Stinson) 10.00 8.00
14.30 12.30
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"We'll breathers in between, when King's Bldg., Connaught Road.
There is no excitement. Why are we to "
games
eventually the skipper, bending scope for budding sprinters to free over the chart, points out the noon "prisoners" and win victory for their position and announces,
These strenuous games sight and to-morrow."
to season,
for all should there be? Maybe even a "came in", at regular periods, mar- Ittle disappointment
"high-nickly or "low-nickly" because bles, "more days more dollars in could be enjoyed; or if peeries were other words, on weekly pay, the in, doughty deeds could be longer you are at sea the more by the owners of Glesca'. money you have to draw when you evidence then, though usually in a The fighting spirit was always in get back.
and good-natured way,
relict found in tournaments, where the combat- unts fought pick-a-back, and Scots mighty and English. This was struggle, though it was at times Meult to provide "temporary Eng- lish," as they knew that in the end they must be vanquished.
And next day-nrrives, and land is sighted, And the first ship is sighted, too. She has a wireless act on board. And within an hour or two a large tug makes her way out of harbour towards the Trier.
"We're from your owners. We're to give you a line and tow you in when you get nearer to land," they yell through a megaphone.
Hounds and Hares
which A greatly enjoyed game, extended beyond the street to back ETeens or even meadows and links, was hounds and hares, and many And as they get near to the har-youngsters got their first taste here bour another tugboat comes out,
A varia- of cross-country running. loaded to her bulwarks with wildly tion of this was the game of "bobbies enthusiastic newspaper men and
and thieves." women.
To return to the street, tippny- Trier hauls into the wind, and nippny (leap-frog) with all its many down come her sails, She lies roll-stages was a favourite, as was hutty, ing caally to the gentle Atlantic swell, Her, voyage is over. The nowspaper tug geta near enough to hall her.
where the caps were placed in a line against a doorway and a ball pitched ut them, the owner of the hot into which it landed having to, retrieve
"What sort of a trip, skipper?" the ball and hit one of his flying com- innions with it. Dully, or rounders, "We'll pay top price for your
was played with the lamp-posts as story, mister."
Cameras are lev-dulls, and often the windows of elled and clicked,
neighbouring houses were dangered.
D'y'hear that, mate?" one of the crew demands, " That man wi1 the black hat offered me £15 for what I can tell him-more'n I've earned all the trip across. An' what can I tell him? We've had a quiet trip, and we're back home, and we were never missing for a moment, because We'vo known where we wern-all the time."
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air.
con-
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"Cal and bat" was another soine- what dangerous game, where the sharp-pointed cat was sent flying from a narrow cavity in the pave- ment, and thereafter struck on the
the point and batted when in Boys even those days had
mechanicat ingenuity, and siderable made their own "barrows" out of soap-boxes or similar packing-enses, to which they. attached wheels, the front set being fixed loosely by a nut,
could be used; that gulders "If you think he'll gl' ye £15 for and so rapid was the movement that
often the that," says the other contemptu-home-made
wheels smoked in
charlots, and ously."Don't ye know yeʼro a hero,
races were Indulged in. mon?"
"He wants to hear about hero- ism, does ho?"
says the first, squaring his shoulders. "Ho shall."
The far-away look of the Ancient Mariner, Arst known shellback to spin his fo story to the public. fills his eyes.... The public shali have their story, if they demand 11....
A Night Out With Poachers
was cloven
exercise,"
As the
WRB
wns
those many
A game of never-failing attraction "dummies trades," where two sides were picked, and occupied opposite sides of the street.
After consultation, one lot advanced to the other and went through a perform- ance in the style of a charade, but without a single word being spoken. When the audience were successful In discovering the "trade" or story, they in turn gave a performance. Before the Motor Eru
One winter game which it will be somewhat difficult for the present generation to realise or believe in was "guesses." It was played at lighted shop windows, often in the busiest streets, and one member of the company gave the letters of some
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The preserving industry is not especially prominent in this part of London (two words, 7, and 41. 4).
7 The ship's crew.
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10 Paco hit high and find the
17 There was no skeleton in her
cupboard.
ono's knee.
save me a thousandi. 20 Pink, or is it Highland
bloom?
DOWN
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9 The men Paddy twisted round,
taking nothing with
them (hyphen, 5 and 6).
13 Make an absolute profit. 14 The rising generaĤon,
18 Familiar pursuit on 'Change to
bring about all right,
10 Reckless mischief.
20 Doesn't exclude ups, but it isn't that part of the hands that t lubricates (two words, 4 and 3)..
21 May describe a lizard, but not
a busy insect,
25 Whether you've finished the bird or not, you'll get this after the coffee. 20 A mild imprecation involves a
shock.
Yesterday's Belation ERSAFETYMA TUHEE OCHOIRANIHAMU
CLEMATIS IMPUGN
What Baby wants is behind time about nevertheless. Quite a lot in a bargain. p.m. The children absolutely dark throughout the night We decided to move on. The nets "I'm hungry," he promptly broke object in the shop window-"T.D."
11 Tree were in bed steeping soundly, and alded us in the Best part of our were concealed round the waist. I twig from a. bush and sticking it be- (Turkish delight) or "C.G." (clnna-12 Can be made from two games I was enjoying a pipe and the oven journey along the village, where we picked up the hare, which I was told tween my teeth, cald, "Keep your law men gundy), etc. ing paper. My day lind been lite all picked up two dogs. And what to conceal.
and a piece of string. I pointed out that I had shut." A cheerful companion in-
Whoover guessed the object cor- days for the past three years dogs! I never heard a cheep out of made no provision for such a con- deed!
15 Settled cosily down. rectly shouted it out and made for washing, cooking, and tending three them from start to finish.
tingeney. Whereupon Jimmy open- motherless children, and I was en- We soon reached a neighbouring ed his jacket and buried the carcase
Russian. Farther neross country we came to another selected shop window, usual joying the tranquillity when I was village and ayolded roade by ergse in a huge improvised pocket which field surrounded by a dry dyke. They across the street, pursued by the disturbed by the ringing of the front ing fields of nowmown hay and stretched from side to side. Eyeing inevitable gale
found.
Aethers, who battered him with their door bell.
skirting felds of corn. The dogs my middle-aged spar, he remarked, poacher's paradise, provided a game-bats. He then had the privilege of 20 Irishman and his girl always on were straining at the leash as we "Too much beer."
keeper didn't cross the dykel The giving the next guess. We can I hastened downstairs,, wondering reached the first field of operation.
net was fixed, and with the usual imagine what would happen at such 22 Sounds prosperous noise, what was wanted. Imagine my sure I was enjained not to talk
We plodded over many fields and "Ilde yourself behind that tree," the game in our streets to-day!
23 Lovi's gone all wrong. Besides Those universally te- prise when two men, Jiminy and Bob, stood at the threshold and in sound of my voice would warn the across a stream on a railway em- dogs were turned loose. Soon 1
there were specials 24 Common guol. heard the "music. Wishing to be at cognised games, t
27 "Tho round, the common game, which would scurry to safely, bankment,
Would furnish all we vited me out for a might's adventure. That the ground had been well sur
the death I rushed from my hiding-such as the "circus." originating from "It'll do you good," auld Jimmy; veyed in the daytime was evident by "Have a amoke." said Bob. We lit place, stumbled over a stone, upset visite to Cook's or Newsomes, and it
ought to ask." (Keble), "You've no ilfe looking after kids all the ease with which they discovered up and I watched my companions Jimmy, and three hares escaped. I was no uncommon thing to see boys 28 One of the things I'd be if you day. Come on and have a bit of the "run" to the gate.
closely. Bob was searching the em- pass over the language used.
standing on their hands or making pyramids on each other's shoulders. bankment with a keen eye, and soon Crouching down we soon readied two holes were net-covered and a The field was of no further use, as Cross-tig and lame-tig, with tug-of- "Is If not rather an unusual hour the gate, where we staked our "cat" put in. The "cat" was a blind the screeching had warned all mem-war, "buff the bear," "welghts," for exercise?”
feet wide, Wilhin ferret. Two rabbits later joined the bera of the family to "beat" it. Dawn gathe of endurance), and “ducky" I queried. In reply net, about nine they both unbuttoned their vests and six feet of either side two other nele hare in Jimmy's pocket.
was now approaching. We came in played with large stones, were other revealed trapping nets and sticks to do in the event of any game be- I was instructed what were staked.
sight of a farm house. Already amusements, and there were always Old Granny Moon was still dozing my-shaped at one end. * 27,
somebody was astir. Smoke wns Bookers" (for lifting stones) Hurriedly I switched off the hall grow its neck, rent the net, which no time for admiring the celestial burned in a window overlooking the spouts (the English pea-shooters) ing netted. I had to pounce on it, beneath her dark quilt, but there was issuing from a chimney and a light "penny bloods" for wet days. How light and invited them in. I was worked with a running bowline, and beauties, as with a curt "Come on neid. We agreed to comb the farm, and boutery guns (the English pop- assured that nothing would happen. jump back to cover.
we moved,
A field of freshly-cut and were rewarded with another guns) had their season, and many They had been at the game for many
hay was our next objective.
My years, and had not once encountered
happy hours were spent "ploying trouble.
I dodged under a bush. I was not companions dropped on their knees
We made for home, and within horses" or having an impromptu per- yet accustomed to the dark, and I to survey there the landscape. Nothing twenty yards of my domain combed formance of Dick Turpin.
It will be observed that almost all was to be seen, so on still further, another field, and all told our night's On my agreeing to accompany had the greatest dimculty in keeping we tried several fields thereafter, exploit yielded two hares and ten those games were born In the boyish them I was instructed to don my one eye on my net and the other on but the ery of the "pee-weep" com- rabbits, which were shared. I received community or handed down from oldest clothes and a pair of rubber the approach for a gamekeeper. shoes. "You can get of your mark Out went the dogs, and after a few polled us to hurry off. How I once four rabbila. I took my companions generation to generation by long before it was written, the lenderette if they tud 117 I wonderl
on "Children in the Street," which It was a rough-and-tumble life In- quickly if any one comes on
the minutes the "music" was heard as a loved that cry, but to-night I hated home, prepared tea and toast while tradition. Fow properties were re-
It. scene," said Bob. No thought of my hare, closely pursued by dog.
Bob "dressed" my dinner. I did not quired, and this was just as well, for presenta very accurately the state of the old days, but much was learned great play-of the team spielt, and many charac- rule a boy's finances in those affairs to-day. That "rattled" into "Bob's not. - It was
go to bed, but after the withdrawal as
the carefree eagerly pounced on and killed, It
of my friends proceeded to carry out days consisted of the Saturday penny ground has been lost forever, but ters were moulded in
would the present-day children, with days when our street was our play- In a few minutes we were on our was thrown to me, and shortly after- It was now about 3 am. I had not my daily taalt,“ Now I am waiting ||ór halfpenny.
The writer was delighted to see, their big pocket-money and the con-ground and. our chuna the world. way. This economy of the local gas wards boili dogs returned unaccoin- partaken of any supper before setting for the next adventure,
Geo, W. Cooper. out, so, when I remarked to Jimmy department in having elde streets panicd.
afler deciding on this article, but 'stant appeal of the pletures, use t
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Amatour.
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1 Arm of the sen 2 After this, ties become last
century.
3 In one's room,
4 If a girl may have buoyant spirits, surely a boy may have this kind of courage.
6 More or less precious stone.
Sour tin upset,
7 Yorkshire custom for the sports-
woman (hyphen, 6 and 5).
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