The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-08
STORY OF THE
FROZEN MATE,

whole port of New York mp,
1t seemed to us on tina. ,,..
Sunday afternoon when We Won, ..
board and found him shiv,rin. tt.
room, trying to extract what V,r,..,
he could from smoky oil stn, s,.
was fine ship. a four mastcd st,.ly..
sci flying the British flag and ,....r.
ready to sail for Australia Not u. ,,
these old style ships had come ., ,ao
port for many a moon before thar. ,,l
1t was curiosity to see an Eng,-. .,..
per once more that took us on ........
jaunt to the Erie Basin brcaNv,,..
where she was moorcd.
But things vent badly from ,h. g,..
The captain had gone ashore and .,..,
his five-year-old daughter with him
we were left to the mercies .! ,h.
frozen mate. And then the ve-. frs.
thing Jeanette did when she u.t into.
his little, dark room was to k.,, ,.,,
the oil stove which was kecpiu. ..
last spark of warmth in the first officer
And the smelly little stove nam,. Ia.
and smoked Ike a chimney after .,. .li
righted 1t and he finally had to ..,. an
old coat or something to snum t ugt
Then of course the room was too fun az
smoke for us to stay there, So We w.r.
driven out ON deck.
He wore a tight fitting blue uu... ,a
coat and a little peaked cap and u.. .a.
His face Vas as red as port lignt .l..
indicated warmth and a sunny dI~p.,..
ton but the way he shivered was paine
full to see. Jeanette asked him what
made him So cold
ITS enough to make a man cold 3.
come around a frozen place like tu....
he replied, after chaps been crl...
ing TO the tropics for eight Years.
These Northern climates are no good 20
the winter. Id rather be in T-t-,uy."l
than here and goodness knows THAI ~
kind of a pace any time of year
Sourabaya or S-s-s-singapore would De
better for me to-day"
But why not go ashore and see q ma..
ing picture show" asked the alt..,.
Jeanette.
Not for me-" he growled. Il don't
like New York. and Odd don't l-l..in.
Americans anyway, so I'll just stop
aboard here and freeze. guess don't
go ashore at all except to that l.,,,.
p-p-pub over there" and he pointed
across the basin and dockyard. whrr"
scores of ships were being painted ana
overhauled, In the direction Of his one
place of recreation. Il can see the ship
from there and know / won't get lost
1t must be awful To be wrecked rr-
marked Jeanette, her youthful mind
still on the trail of romance
Not SO bad, as long as it's in t-,-'-
tropical country. / was in an old hp'...
once comm down from Hongkon- 80.
Singapore and what did she do bu' N...
ashore from her anchors in "A hH,t..
cane. And We all got safe To tn" h.l.
with l-l-life belts on, includin' TIL Sap.
tains w-w-w-wife Although the say.
was heavy, I'll admit, the water vl.
warm. and as said before, We w,r. a
tropical country.
We We're on the XXX kelau.la
coast. and the rajah Of that place N.-
one Of the incest chaps you'd wan %
m m M meet. He put us up In ON, -
his best shacks ana gave US pl"nty NJ
b-b-b-bubbly mucha, which warmrI
up. That's what Id like u hay" ..-
day. some b-b-b-bubbly muCha W.
lots of curry and smothered in chutu.
ch-ch-chutney like they have i H
bombay
We'll those Malays were very nj.
f-ff-fellers and the jah said We GOA.
stay all w-w-w-winter, IL We liked,
the old man wanted to get out and
suppose his wife was at the bottom
that. Well there was no way To-
out the rajah says, because ships n.
stopped there unless they b-h-h-h.
ashore. like We did. and the neaf.-
port was Penang, 200 miles or 50 a0
on the other side of the p-p-p"nnS"
well says to the old man
day. If you're so bally anxious To-
out o this. I'll walk over to Pcul
and have ship down II fetch Us.
so the old man says all right.
you do that and I'll send you mp
u lNh'' NiitNbiN w 80
| to Liverpool And we s-s-s-Star.
that very day, The rajah he gave ~
g-g-g-guide and TWO or three carrie
| I'VE t-t-t-took plenty of hu"
mucha along and had "A nice tim"
| in through the woods and IN tw".
six days We We're in Penang An
| s-s-s-siN weeks from the tim"
started we had a ship around at Is
| tan and took off all our people.
u the gang were sorry To hr
seem they had to leave such
place"
| And the hubby mucha too. !
pose" remarked Jcannett" ar,
What is bubbly mucha anyway
| "Oh. just dried FISH, full Of pcpprr
nice and hot Just the thing for a o.
cal country"
| Having spun this yarn with rht'
ing teeth he sauntered forward w..
showing the forecaSlc the gali'}
the Chinese cook, the forcCaStlc
with it's mooring gear and anchnr~
then brought us back for a look a'
poop and chart room. The wh""'
1, it'll, l.t Ia Me-,