THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY
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Heave to, ma hearties. Cluster round and let old Peter have a quiet yarn and spin a tale or two. Well avc managed to make the open sea in good weather. The old S.S. Good Endeavour is weathering it even Butinskv the goat doesn't seem to have noticed anything Avrong except when he swallowed my blue braces, and now his breath is coming in 'pants.' H a ha, not bad for old Peter eh .Well lads and lassies, how do ye like the open sea. The horizon is quite clear just now and we're making Fiji, in good lime. but it's not always calm and sunny like this Why I mind the time when I first made the Horn. Why the waves were breaking high as the Crows nest and I had to lash myself to the mast by my bootlaces, in order to keep from being swept overboard. -That's a Jong time ago and laces were much stronger. Still Ave Avon't worry about the bad Aveather. To-day's fine and all my crew are in the pink. Hi Petty Officers M. Ramson and Leslie "Stewart } go below and stir the stokers up, the steam gauge is slip- 1 ping and avc Avant to makeSSuraA r a in record time by next Friday,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 54, 25 August 1939, Page 6
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224THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 54, 25 August 1939, Page 6
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