JACK TARS ADVENTURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3026, 22 April 1926, Page 4

JACK TARS ADVENTURE.

WON A BOX OF CHOCOLATES AND MET HIS COUSIN. Dunedin, April 15. Coming from Amusement Park at the /Exhibition the other night was one of the visiting sailor lads with “Diomede” on his cap. He had a shot at the “roll-downs,” won a box of chocoates, and, with sailorlike generosity, had given it to the first eager-eved youngster he had seen. This young Jack Tar was alone and on his way home. It was a St. Kilda resident, who had not won any* chocolates, but remained cheerful enough to throw “Good night” to the sailor and to ask how he liked the southern city and New Zealand generally. ■Conversation .flowed as thley walked towards the trams. The St. Kilda man had been in England 25 years ago, and he asked the sailor where he came from:. “Suffolk, answered the Tar. “From the village of Aldeburgr.” “I know that part.” said the St. Kilda man; “I visited there when I was home.” “My father, Ned Crisp,” explained the sailor, “used to keep the Brudenell Hotel.” The St. Kilda man stopped his walk, looked at his companion, chuckled, and said: “Well if you are a son of Ned Crisp, who kept the Brudncll Hotel, I’m your cousin.” And thus it was that Fred Crisp, A.B. on H.M.'S. Diomede, found a cousin in this far away city of Dunedin, a cousin who had met him before, but 25 years back when the Suffolk lad was five years of age, and’ before he had gone through Zebrugge, Jutland, and many other thrills. The world is small anyway.