THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 30, 30 June 1939, Page 3

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

> Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise PETER WHALER — WHALE ISLAND' XXXXXXXXXZOCCZXXXZOCCXXZCZCXXX.

HEAVE HO! myi lusty lads, and \ let's have a quiet yarn and a smoko. Well and how's the world. By the ' green barnacles of Neptune, I must i be getting old or something. Every. ] time I stretch these days I feel my joints crack. 'Spose it must be the cold weather and. the rain. Still iu makes us appreciate the summer, all the more doesn't it. As I was saying to my friend Sinbad the Sailor, who ;; by the way popped in last week to say hullo, a fellow never likes a thing unless he hasn't got it. If you can that' I don't mean measles or but something really nice, like line sunny weather, wind in your hair, fresh baked scones, pictures on Saturdaj's and toffee apples. Well Fvc got good news, the S.S. Good Endeavour is-': making- good. leeway,and should be fit for the. world's, trruise very shortly. 1 was the supply of fresh water 1 , and the laying up of hundreds of fresli chooks eggs. I had half a mind to take the chooks with us, but when I loaded on the chook food, the hold was full and the plimsoll had disappeared. So. you can bet your seaweed, I lost no time in unloading. Anyhow it looks pretty well to me and as soon as I can get everything complete -we'll weigh anchor and off to all the ports of the world. Yours till next week Peter the Whaler. OUR STORY r MR CRUMP LOSES HIS HAT Mr Crump was tall- The children said it was bo-cause he tried to loi'U over the tree tops. Mr Crump was thin. The children said it was Ij-j. cause he walked so much through th-s Green. ,Forest. Right at the edge o.* r the Green Forest he l'ved in a funnv little house with a tall chimney. The children said he had built the house of twigs and sticks and hickory nuts. The children saiol much more, which •was that he talked with the trees and the birds and the little animnis of the Green Forest. But now the forest was no longer green. It was white Avith snow an ' l the north Avind was blowing. The very minute Mr Crump stepped out of his funny little house he knew the north wind Avas blowing. "Heigh-ho/' said Mr Crump, "AA-hat care I for the north wind?" *«Whheeee, heeeee," answered the north wind and straightaway snatch ed Mr Crump's hat. feather and all. | Up in the air it Avent, around and around it whirled and away out ol" sight! ''Heigh-ho/' said Mr Grumpy anc tying his woolen scarf over his head be began his walk through the for. est. All (lav he walked, looking -hi; way and that. It avßs tea time Avhen he got back to his funny liUl» house and there on the doorstep sat Squirrel Avaiting ''I saw your hat/' Squirrel cried "feather and all. "What," cried Mr Crump. "Where? "Atop a man's head/' Squirrel answered - ''Who Avas he? " Mr Crump asked. Squirrel shook his head three times and Avas about to shake it a fourth when Sparrow came, flying to the door i step. *'I saw your hat," he twittered. and all." : cried Mr Crump. Where?'' "Atop a man's head,"' Sparrcw twittered. «Wl;r> was he?" Mr Crump asked. j ''A strange man,'' Sparrow- answered. At this Squirrel got excited. "A white man/' he cried,, ''and he didn't ha\ r e any hair on his head.' "And he stood very still,' Sparrow ✓ chirped. "He didn't Avink an eye." Squirrel jumped up and down. wore a AA'hitc coat,'' he said, 'with white buttons on it. and his trousers were white too. Solvere his shoos and mittens." «'You don't say, " 7 Mr Crump cried. / ''White shoes and mittens!'' - "fjis eyes Avcre black/' Sparrow said, "as black as rumehcrncs." I know AA'here he is. Shall Ave go and find him?" "By all means," Mr Crump said. *'A strange follow indeed! Soarrov. you ride on my shoulder. Scuui.ol in my peek t. Qui-k! Now of! we

go!" ''This Avay," Sparrow chirped, ''straight ahead for a then sharp i ight and over the garden Avail to the hiekory tree." "There's the man," SparroAV twittered, "under the hickory tree." "A SNOWMAN!" Mr Crump cricd, anol, taking his hat, feather and all ? he Avent back to his funny little house to make a bit of supper. RIDDLE POT | Which side of a horse has the most Hair: on it? | The outside. | '/ • * * * * "V\ r iiy is. the Union Jack the strongjest of. flags? ! " Because :-no-.power on earth can | pull; it down. ■ m * * * ' What was Adam and Eve's telephone number? 28 1 Apple. * « « * Why did the chicken peck 'the pan? Because he couldn't lick it. * $ $ « Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he Avanteol to get to the other side. a* Sp ® # When is a cook crucl? When she whips the cream and beats the egg. * # » * Which key is the hardest to turn? A donkey. THINGS WE OUGHT TO KNOW The Origin of the Word ''Pyjamas" In the old days the men used to wear nightshirts, garments Avhich to modern people seem A'ery queer. The original names for pyjamas avs,s pacmeaning clothing for the legs. The3 r AA r ere a pair of silk trousers worn in India by Sikh men antl Mo. hannnedans of both sexes. The English in India borrowed the custom of Avearing loose comfortable trousers from the Portuguese. A\ r ho had originally adopted the Indian custom AA'hich has now spread all oA'-er the world. But the original paejamas AA r ere Avorn during the heat of Intlia day. The Lyric Lyric is the name given to a cer. tain, species of poetry bccause it was originally accompa.nieot by the music of the lyre. It was a favourite form among the ancient Greeks and Romans, manv famous poets and musicians being mentioneol in history anol legend. EVENING The pale pink skj r is dark with homing birols; the trees that sentinel the shore are moA r ed to sudden, animation; the quiet air above the still green pool is stirred by the penciled tip of many AA'ings describing pathless arcs that only memory can follow; a dragon-fty takes one last stitch across the olrowsing water • and is gone. Suddenly, the reedy shore is olotteol black as little heads olip pool-ward ' for the e\ r ening d'jrk, • like actors acknowledging applause.