An American warship once paid a visit 46 a port in a hit country where the British base invited the officers of the American warship to a party 47 .
Now, Americans like their drinks to have plenty of ice in them, 48 in a cold climate, but at the time the warship’s visit to the British base, it was 49 known that the British 50 ever had ice, even in 51 countries.
The captain of the American ship did not want to have drink warm drinks at the British party, but it 52 very impolite to 53 the British captain’s invitation, so the American captain 54 , but an hour before party was 55 to begin, sent a small boat ashore to his host with several large tins of ice from the warship’s refrigerators.
When the American offices went ashore for the party, they were looking forward to 56 plenty of ice in their drinks. They were 57 very surprised when, 58 their arrival, they were served drinks with no ice in them at all, they thought that the servants might 59 not yet have had time to 60 the ice that had been sent from the ship, but the party continued, and 61 there was no ice. Of course,the American officers were too 62 to ask what had happened to the ice that they had sent.
When the party at last 63 to an end, the American Captain thanked his British host for the pleasant party. Then the secret of the ice came 64 The British captain thanked the American captain for it and said. "It 65 me to have the first really cold bath I had in this line."