THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 174, 31 October 1941, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

by PETER THE WHALER of WHALE ISLAND

V Jv FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY I •&L V lAboard for the Goodwill Cruised

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. This is better weather by a long way. Shiver my timbers I can't recall worse weather during Octobei 1 in all. 1113- days. At one time I reallj thought that Old Man winter was back again and that I would have to put my calendar back to front. Now however it seems better and 1 am beginning to thinlc of bathing season and the fun of long sunny days when I can fish from my special rock round from Sulphur Bay point. Aha that will be the time and then wo can all get together and go exploring. Yes, boys and girls I have great plans for you on our next voyage of discovery. Our good old ship is now looking spick and span and I think that it Avon't be long before avc Avill be able tc Aveigh anchor once more and plough the boundless main. Those good days -will hoAvever have to keep foi a little Avhile until the Avarmer days are here. In the meantime I Avant you all to eat plenty of porridge and groAv fat and strong so that yoi can stand up to the A'oyage, Avherc once again you AA'ill visit strange lands and sec queer people. Your: till next Aveek. Peter the Whaler. KATE THE COW Kate the coav Avas terribly greedy She ate anything and everything Avhieh came her ay ay. Kale the coa\ AYas as black as a coalmine. Hei eyes AYere big and staring. "Whei she opened her mouth and rollee her red tongue, you just felt tha ; she AYas going to eat you up. Ivat< had done many wicked tilings in he: time, such as dragging clothes of the clothes line, and eating them, Yes, Kate the cow knew ho\Y to eai clothes. She chewed them am chcAYed them and down her throa the>' AYent. Kate also knew how tc cat paper. As she AYalked by tin roadside she picked up all Lhe papei and swallowed it. (J;k_v she ate ui tbc newspaper before her master luk Jjime to read it. She saw it poking from the pocket of her.master's coai as it hung in the cowshed. So she just chcAAed it into a ball and swallowed it. Early on Tuesday morning her master hung cut the clothes tc diy in the orchard. Then she Avent to market to sell the butter she had made the day before. Kate AYas feeding in the mcadoAV., As she looked OA r er the hedge into the orchard she badly Avanted to eat the clothes. But she had a meal instead of nice green grass and lay doAvn quietly to rest. As she lay among the long SAveet ' grass she felt the rain fall >11 her head and body. Presently ft came so fast that she Avas forced to get up to shelter under the hedge. Then, Kate again saAv the clothes hanging 011 the line. It Avas strange she thought, that her mistress did not come to get them in. Then She remembered that her mistress had »*one aAvay that morning with a basket oA r er her arm. Kate soon made up her mind to iake in the Avashing. She pushed her ay ay through the hedge and found the clothes basket in tlie cart shed. Very soon all the clothes Vrere safely in the basket, as Kate kneAY how to pull them off the line. When the mistress returned and found Kate lying beside the basket of clothes all clean and dry she couldn't belieA'e her eyes. But soon she knew that Kate the cow could be good as aycll as bad. For this she gave Kate a bag of rosy apples. She soon swallowed the apples greedily, then rolled the bag into a nice ball »md. ate that too. BE QUICK WITH THIS Ask a friend to AATitc doAA'n quickly elcA'cn thousand eleA r en hundred 'ind eleven. You aa ill quite often 11,1111. course, the correct ■iiiswer is 12.111.

QUAINT ADVERTISEMENTS

I'or Sale—lJuMdog. Will cat anything. Very fond <,r children. Lost—A dog. OvYned by a gentleman with a face something like a spaniel's. Armchair for sale, by gentleman with carved legs.

SONG STORY

As I was "Strolling Down the Avenue" I met "Two Little Gills in Blue." One of them suggested that we should sit "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" and hear "The Woodpecker's Serenade." Alter a while "we decided to do "The Blackout Stroll" down the "Lambeth Walk" to the beach, Avhere Ave saw ''■Red Sails in the Sunset."

RIDDLE POT If you dropped a glass, what town would yoiu hear? —Glass-:go (Glasgow) . What is the difference between a pin and a story book?— One has a good head and the other has a good tale. Why arc carpenters generally honest men? —Because their dealings are straight and above board. What is it that never asks questions and yet requires many answers?—A door bell. What town is often drawn?— Cork. Whs' is an author freer than a king?— Because he can choose his own subjects and a king cannot. What table has not a leg to stand upon?— The multiplication table. When is a black dog not a black dog?-—When he's a greyhound. When is a baby like a brcaklasteup?—When it's tea-thing (teething).

SPRING SONG Can't yon hear the thrushes singing And the merry brook a-rini£in£? See the golden daffodils. Yellow wattle on the liills? Purple violets .scent their beds. Jonquils nod their golden heads. Every bird and bee is humming, "Spring is coming! Spring is coming!" Winter is a tiling that's past, Spring is on her way at last.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

You children with the pretty eyes, Like the blue of summer skies, Remember, if you cry and pout, All the colour will wash out. Children 'xvitli sweet eyes of brown, Ff you often cry and frown, Your eyebrows very soon will close And drop right down upon your nose. MY LETTER BOX

Welcome to Ngaire Goodwin, who also wins a free picture ticket first pop. Yes Ngaire, yeur competition is clever and will appear in a week or lavo's time. Your certificate will leave to-day and I trust it will reach you safelj*. All good wishes from your friend Peter the Whaler.

Sanely Robb, whose writing is excellent, writes to say that he has* not yet received his 'certificate'. Well now that is strange for I know it went to you alright. However I will send cut another one and you must let mc know whether you receivc it. You can send in the jokes just as you like. Thanks for the riddles, they are very acceptable. Yours till next week, Peter the Whaler.

LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION

SEND IN YOUR OWN

| lam very pleased with the result.-: jet' last week's competition. Three | jolly good ones came in and I am going to give all the senders free picture tickets for saving me so much trouble. Now you ]ad> and lassies -who know what they are all about, just keep silent and when they appear in the ISM\CO\ don't say a word to anybody. Just let them work them cut themselves. In that wa\' you will prove yourselves good sailormen. The tickets go to— Ross Muir, Olive Hunter and Ngaire Goocfwin. Congratulations. Your tickets await vou.