THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 163, 3 October 1941, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

for the Goodwill Cruise ~ PETER THE WHALER ~ o/WHALE ISLAND |

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. And how clo you like this weather. First it rains, then it threatens, then its fine and "then it doesn't know what to do. Well, at any rate 1 have been having a busy time of it. I have a splendid garden now, and in spite of the fact that Butinsky eats all the peas and beans as soon as they show above the ground, and the frosts get my toma'toes, it doesn't look so bad. Down in Sulphur Bay [ have the S.S. Good Endeavour beached for repairs I have scraped the whole of the hull and am now going to* give her a good coat of copper ready for our next trip. You'd be surprised at the amount of Aveed and shellfish which collect on the old ship's keel.. One piece of seaweed was thirteen feet long. I expect it was grown in the Sounds when we lay anchored for so long in the westerly storm. But she's, a great little ship all the same and I reckon that she'll make as many, a long voyage yet before she's consigned to rotten row. I have great plans too, for improvements in her hull. I am going to make an assembly hall in the bows where we can have concerts and debates and things. In fact next time we go a-sailing we might even manage a reception or a dance for our guests. You never know, and in any case its time you youngsters learnt something of how to conduct yourselves in society. This time the whole of the hull will be painted Avliite and the decks brown and grey. The rigging too I'm painting white so that the ship will look light and smart. There will be whips of woric for you to keep it ship shape eh' Well at any rate we will see when the time comes. Yours till next week P.T.W.

SPRING TIME Mrs Bellbird was very bus3 r building her nest, for it was spring. Mr Bellbird was bringing her bits of straw and hay and she had been twisting round and round in a bunch of hay and straw and gradually it was beginning to shape into a nest. At last after a lot of work the nest was ready, and both birds snuggled together in it and went to sleep. The sun was just rising over the 1-jr.lls when Mr and Mrs Bellbird awoke. The first thing Mr Bellbird did was to go and get some food while Mrs Bellbird sat down again in the nest. Mr Bellbird came home with some nice fat grubs and they had a lovely breakfast together. Every day for four days Mrs Bellbird. laid an egg, and on the fourth day she began to hatch them. It took 21 days to hatch the eggs, but at last one day Mrs Bellbird heard a pop, pop, pop, and she knew that her eggs were hatched. After waiting a Avhile she got off the nest to see if her new babies were all right. They hardly looked like birds at all; they were just little balls of yellow fluff. When Mr Bellbird came home and saw the new babies he sat on the branch and sang for joy. Both birds were busy now teaching their babies to eat and fly and sing. Very soon four young bellbirds were 1 flying about and singing very sweetly, watched by a proud mother and father. So, if you hear or see a bellbird, it may be one of Mr and Mrs Bellbird's family.

TO-DAY

Just a kind word

j As Ave' pass on our way; Don't wait till to-morrow, But say it to-day.

Just a kind thought To cheer folk along. Don't think it's not heeded, For you will be wrong.

Just a kind smile (If only you knew) 'Tis the small things of life That help people through.

Just a kind deed. It doesn't take And where there was sadness You'll find there'll be song.

Just a few minutes Out of each day; Now don't be 100 busy, Beg '.n right away.

A CARD TRICK

There are: only three people needed for this trick. The second person places three cards on the table, while the first person goes out of the room. The third person touches one of the three cards on the table and the first person on entering the room has to say which card the third person touched. It sounds hard, but it is easily done when it is known how to do it. If the third person touches the middle card, the second person says "Come on," but if the third person touches the nearest card the person just says "Gome." If the person touches the third card, three words are spoken.

JOKE CORNER.

Making Them Musical

"What's the piano tuner doing under his, car?"

"Oh, he saves money tuning his springs instead of greasing them." Hesitating

"You didn't carry out your plans

to elope?"

"No. I found father was planning to move, and I didn't know where we'd find him when we got back." The Rebuke

A business man thought his stalf rather lazy and indifferent, so he pinned up the following notice:

"Bread is the staff of life, but that is no reason why the life of my staff should be one continual loaf."

New to Him

An Arab Shiek was being taken in a car across a very bumpy patch of desert. So bad was the going that nt last the car overturned and the sheik was thrown out.

Instead of protesting to the driver, the Arab picked himself up and apologised profusely, saying: "I'm so sorr}'. I've not learned to ride one of these things" yet."

Double Duty

The bootmaker so prided himself on the quality of his work that he guaranteed each pair of boots to last six months without repairs.

Imagine his surprise when one day a man returned with a pair of boots that had worn out in three months from the day of purchase.

"What's the matter with them?" asked the bootmaker. "Don't they fit?"

The 1 other shook his head. "Yes," he said, "they fit well enough on me, but they're a bit tight for my brother on the night shift." Not Telling'! - Teacher: An anonymous person is one TV'ho does not wish to be known. Who is that talking? . A Voicer An anonymous person, sir. Very Neat Mother: You're a good boy, Tom, not to have thrown your banana skin on the floor of the bus, but where did you put it? Tom: In the man's pocket who was sitting beside me, mum.

LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION

A HARD RIDDLE

Now there was only one answer to this competition, and strange to say it was right. Here is the riddle and you must read the answer carefully to see how clever it is.

Q. Why is a sheet of foolscap like a Hazy dog?

A. A sheet of foolscap is an ink lined plane; and inclined (ink lined) plane is a slope up; and aslow pup (slope up) in a lazy dog.

Do you get it?

Now the onlyi winner of a free picture ticket is Gay Burt. Congratulations, call and collect. P.T.D.

THIS WEEK'S COMPETITION

BEST RIDDLES

I have become tired, of hunting out competitions so this week I'm

going to ask my merry crew to send in the best riddle they know. The three very best will win free picture tickets with my best compliments. Now do your best and I will print the funniest. Till next week your old friend Peter the Whaler.