THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 44, 24 April 1942, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. My word the air is keen these mornings. I'll bet there have been some baby frosts inland! Do you know, it takes me all my time to turn out of bunk and as for my usual cold dip ■ —ugh. Well I think I will just leave that by until next spring. A dip in a basin of water will do me till then. Still nobody minds the cold so much when they can have big' log tires at night—and that's what I have now. You would be surprised to see how nice l and snug I get of an evening. I believe in getting the biggest log I can; heaping up the ashes around it and then getting hold of a good book. Yes, I'm very snug and comfortable thank you and I can tell j'ou I wouldn't change places with King George himself. Aj r ! Now as I sit writing here I can hear that wretched goat gnawing away at something. I'll bet its my great-boots again. Butinsky, by the way has grown so much of a winter coat that he 1 looks almost twice as big. He is becoming a real nuisance all the same as he insists on pushing into my cave when it gets cold and I have to hunt him out. It wouldn't be so bad, if it were only Butinsky, but he has the habit of inviting the other members of his family too. I came in late last Monday evening and there were live of them—all squatting round the fire and chewing away contentedly. And, what a mess —everj'tlung had been overturned and one big billy had even managed to get his whiskers burnt. Well it took me just two minutes to tip them outside and I think the}' ran for a week. Yours till next Friday P.T.W.

FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY k Aboard for the Goodv/iii Cruise ~ PETER THE WHALER of WHALE ISLAND