THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 25, 16 June 1939, Page 3

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

r Ship Ahoy there! Here's a fricndlv hand to the whole of the crew of the Good Ship 'Good Endeavour.' And how are you all a.faring. How do you like the frosty weather, wove been having lately. By the toenails of Neptune I just about froze .solid in my bunk. Yesterday morning, it took all my time to stretch a. foot out from the blankets. Ah but I made it iF* alright and when I had finished m> jerks I felt almost ready to set out on our world cruise at once. But on second thoughts I realised that I had not got a full crew together "yet. 'No Peter' I said to myself "you just stay a port for a few days yet, old Barnacle, and when you have the good old ship properly equipped with good bovs and girls. Why off we'll go and visit every country on earth. So that's \ Vhy I want all the stokers to work * hard and get those boilers ready. Get up full steam, ma hearties, and lets get ready for the great adventure, Ji 11 the rest of the crew have work they can do also in laying in stores, Jilling the bunkers, polishing the brass wor-lt and generally getting the S.S. Good Endeavour ready for a cruise round the world. Soon I'll be saying "All Aboard Everyone.'' Best wishes till next week. Yours as ever Peter the Whaler. OUR STORY TIMOTHY'S DREAM Timothy Todd sat by the Lall candle reading his primer. A live burned on the hearth and the, was very warm. Timothy felt sleepv, his eyes winked, his head nodded, is for apple,'' he said drowsilj - And straightway his eyes closed, his head bobbed forward. Timothy -fell asleep. Ihe fire crackled on merrily, the candle the primer closed itself vip and slid to the floor, but Timothy was no longer interested in, any of these things. Timothy Todd was dreaming. He dreamed that he stood under sin apple tree. Above his head the boughs of the tree were thick with round, red apples. Timothy could smell them. Suddenly, quite without warning, one dropped at his feet and lay shin.. Sng in the grass. Timothy put ci'. his hand to pick it up and the apple said„ "A is for apple 1 Rosy and round That dropped from 'the tree _Onto the ground." "Oh," Timothy cried,. «'you ran talk!" This was fun. The apple- chuckled. "Strange things happen Timothy Todd When you visit The Land of Nod." With that the apple chuckled;again and Timothy, looking more closely, -saw that it had two thin, arms and two thin legs., Its face was jolly find when it laughed the skin wrinkled in tiny creases. Timothy sat down beside it on the grass. ''I've seen you many times before, Mr Apple/' he said. "I've seen you all fixed up so that I wouldn't know it was you unless Nanna told me so." His eyes shone, his cheeks •were quite as red as the apple's. "Why," he cried, ''sometimes you're apple sauce!' At those words the apple turned a handspring and bobbing up close beside Timothy, grinned mischievously. "How do you like me Timothv tell,. , Served hot in a dish And sugared well?"

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''I like you," Timothy laughed; and there before him was a dish of apple sauce. Timothy ate it happily. "Yum, yum, 'that was good'' jhe said. The apple turned another handspring and bobbing up, said, "How do you like me Heaped up high Beneath a brown crust In an apple pic?" Timothy clapped his hands with, joy and there before him was an apple pie smelling like Cook's whsn she took it from the oven. ''Oh," Timothy said, and his eyes grew big. The apple bowed low, so low in fact that he almost fell over. Straightening himself up he folded his funny, thin arms and spoke in a wee voice. "A is for apple Don't ever forget. First letter of all In, the alphabet!" "I won't," Timothy shouted, pr.d woke up to find Nanna standing over him. ''I've had the funniest dream" Timothy said. Nanna smiler. "You can tell me all about it/' she said, "while you're getting ready for bed.' Timothy picked up his primer And followed her. <T wish I might dream about every letter in the alphabet," he thought. "It's a. jolly way to learn letters.'' RIDDLE POT What can j'ou put into a cup but , can not get out? —A crack. What is it that everyone can draw without using a pencil?— Your breath What is the best day to fry pan. cakes?— The day they're wanted. What bird can, lift the heaviest weights?— The crane. What country is always ready for a meal? —Hungary. What is always behind time?--• The back of a watch or clock. Why is the moon like a window? — Becausc its a sky-light! TEN LITTLE SMILES 4' One little smile ran off to play; Couqucred a pout it found on the way. Two little smiles instead of one Overtook a sccond pout—my, what fun! Three little smiles kissed away a t*»ar That sparkled like a diamond when they drew near. Four little smiles, at a merry pace, Whisked off a baby frown, from an anxious face. Five little smiles —a very jolly mix — Overtook another pout; smiles now six. Six little smiles (over half eleven) Enticed away another frown; now the smiles are seven. [ Seven little smiles —what a lucky ; fate!— Met a woe-begone, little band i of eight. 1 Eight little smiles all in a, line Surrounded a pucker—see, the smiles are nine. Nine smiles now in all—courageous little men Took a stray poift prisoner, and swel led the ranks to ten.

LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION I

JUMBLED CANADIAN TOWNS Upon my soul I never heard of such out lantlish names as those Canadian towns have. Yet the remarkable thing is that nearly all the entries I received were correct. My crew is

getting too smart. I'll have to mnlce ihe competitions harder still. Well Lhe correct answers were as under. REGINA QUEBEC TORONTO WINNIPEG OTTAWA FORT RUPERT MONTREAL, HALIFAX SASKATCHEWAN! MANITOBA BRITISH COLUMBIA VANCOUVER The winners were: Keith Hylancl

Wallace Luxton Gay Sutcliffe Margaret Grant Janette McLeod Ivan Meyer Coleman Haynes Jocelyn Wilson Specials to Souter Haynes (aged V 2 years) and Peter Sou'they (aged years). Congratulatonis, Your free tickets wait you at the Beacon Office. MY MAIL BOX )car Peter the Whaler, I am 11 years old a.nd I wish to iccome a member of the Good Eu[eavour League. I enclose threepence ,nd also this week's competition. Janette McLeoil. Welcome aboard, lass. You'll be >ne of our best members if you keep lp the good standard of writing an.l mswer all the competitions correcty. Your certificate lea-ves shipboard ;o_day. All wishes. P. T. W. )ear Peter the Whaler, Did you go to the Winter Show, did. I won second prize for Queen lakes. I went to the concert too, but Francen could not, as she had a cold. Yours sincerely, Peter Southey. Glad you won a prize, my lad. Ceep up the good work. It's grand o see a small'chap making leeway, iope France n,\s cold is better now. 3ive her my regards. P.T.W. PARTY FUN WEATHER COCK One player is the "weather bureau'' tie stands in front of the other plny>rs who are ''weather cocks.' - When ;he weather bureau tells the direction n which the wind is blowing, the jocks must all turn in that direction. For instance, if the weather bureau ;a,ys "The wind blows east," all the jveather cocks must face, the cast at 3n,ce. He may also say that the wind ilows south-east, nortluwest and the ike. Occasionally the weather bureau nay call out "Whirlwind!" All play. >rs must then spin on tht'r right heels, completing a circle When a weather cock does not work right ? the weather bureau orders it out of the game.. The one remaining the longest is the winner. DAILY ANECDOTE "WHOSE NAME WAS JOHN" When John Ruskin passed away, the village blacksmith who had known and loved him for many years, sought how he might pay tribute to his departed friend. He turned to his Bible, and in, the first chapter of John, sixth verse, he found his inspiration. He sent a wreath of flowers with the simple ! .n_ scription < ''There wa.s a man seat from God, Avhose name was John."