THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 11, 2 October 1942, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

[j r ooc^w Cruise ] ' nrrrr. VA£ WHALER i nf WHALE ISLAND

What ho, what ho. ma hearties. j Thank goodness the rain has clear-* ed and. avc can sec something of the { blue sky once more. I'ls going to take me the best part of a week to get my garden straightened up. There are holes and Avashouts everywhere, where the rain just poured over everything and ran regular rivers down the rocks. Never mind the young plants that arc left are looking really well and I sec jfory potatoes have quite nice green tops on them. I bet I'll be able to have new taties before any of you. Now t would like to tell you something about Peterkin. He was so friendly and happy here that I cannot understand why he has suddenly taken to Avandering aAvay. It AA r orries; me, for sometimes he doesn't get back till Ave 11 a Pier dark. I notice he goes doAvn to the rock near Avlicre I first found him with his broken flipper. I have an idea that he may have a mate there but I cannot be certain as he always makes a hullabaloo if I try to go near Avhen he's haA'ing a play. Well to-morroAV I plan to lay a trap for him and if I succeed I'll tell 3 r ou about it next Avcek. Till then cheerio. P.T.W.

CRAZY CORNER j TWICE THE NUMBER 1 A young barrister, ta'king his first , ease, liacl been retained by a faimel to prosecute a railway company for killing twenty-t'our pigs. He wanted to impress the jury with the magnitude of the injury? Twenty - four pigs, gentlemen. Twenty-four —twice the number in the jury box!" .« a • * BACKYARD SCENE " "Chvs t' missis Fred?" I "She's laid up wi' a bad. cowd." "Is tliat 'er ■coughin"?" "Nowc, y' fool; -this is 1 a kennel aw'm mekkin' lor t' dog. 4B © • m ONE TO IRELAND "Talking ol' liens," remarked the American visitor, "reminds me of an old lien my dad once had. She would hatch out anything from a tennis ball to a lemon. Why, one day she sat on a piece oT ice and hatched out two quarts of hot. water." "That doesn't come up to the club-footed hen my mother once had," remarked the Irishman. "They had been feeding her by mistake on sawdust instead of oatmeal. W ell, sor, she laid twelve eggs and, sat on them, and. when they hatched, eleven of the chicks had wooden legs and the twelfth was a woodpecker." Nothing for Bangs Inquisitive Gent: "How much do you get paid for banging that bam-* mer down?"

Navvy: "Nothing. It goe> down itself. I get paid fur lifting it up again." Not What It Seems Said a critic to an ailthor: "I've read your book. There's a great deal that's true and a great deal that s new." (Delight ol author). L>iit. added the "Lhal which i< true is nolt new, pp.'! that. winch w is not true." QUEER A] >YF.IITISEMEXTS Wanted to Sell; A machine by a lady a few months old. Lost-: A purse by a lady containing a shilling. Lost.: A party frock by girl wi-th blue frills. Found: A box of snowballs by a man made of cotton-wool. Lost: A bag of cakes by a boy covered with cream and icing. A SIGN OF SPRING A saw a baby lain!) this morn . Upon my way to scheo!. A tiny tiling with wagging tail, And oh! .such vur*y v>'oj!.

HAVE YOU READ THESE? "Waiting," by Willis Lait. "Choice Chocolates," by Tliea Good "A Posy .of Flowers," by Sheila Dorethem. "Speedjng," by Phyllis QuiCke. "Not So Smart," I. C. Unow. "The Wonderful Question," by I. Askyou. "Vegetables," by A. Marrow. RIDDLES Sent in by Miina Biddle When is a well like unbuttered toast? —When it is dry.! When is it good to lose your temper?— When it is a bad one. Why is the letter O the dirtiest letter in the alphabet?— Because .it has been put. twice in soot arid once in oil. TIT BITS Many people 1 enjoy weeding a garden. Others won't stoop to it. A notice in a Avindow at a seaside resort saying: "Laundress Wants Washing.'" She ought to know now to do it. Wealth goes to some people's heads. They buy expensive hats. A mountaineer says women are good climbers:. They have gone up in his estimation. Hard work keeps you young, says a writer. Some people lind keeping young is hard work. An artist who paints seascapes tries to show the motion of the sea,. Permanent waves. RAINY DAYS

Endless little drops of rain Scuttling down the wintlowpanc; Endless other little drops Tumbling 011 the mountain-tops. Trickling down the grassy hill, Joining friends to make a rill; Taking partners till they seem Strong enough to make a sit ream. Babbling loud through woods and meads, Babbling loud by stones and reeds, Scuttling on and resting never, Till at last tlicy reach the river. Moving onwards day and night Till at last the sea's in sight; What a journey that; must be That starts in sky and ends in sea. PUZZLES Here arc two puzzles to work out. boys and girls. Don't look at the answers till you'Vc worked them out! Form a flowers name from each oT the following phrases or words by rearranging the letters : One name: love in; gtmeolrcotn: tears; a wee pest: dliagloi: thy china. Take 10. double it, -deduct 10, and Sremains .llcw can this be? The answers to the first puzzle are: .Anemone: violin: forget-me-not; aster; sweet, pea: gladioli; hyacinth. The answer to the second is that yt»u write 10 over in so eiose that the two 3 s become a big t and tintwo o's an 8. Then 10 from 18 leave' S.

LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION Weli I think 1 caught you lliis time. How many thought. Peter Dawson wrote '"Waltzing Matilda"? Quite a number eh ! Then- were three only correct answers anil here they are:— John Taylor Beverley Hylas Stewart Congrats. Call in and collect your tickets. Here were the correct answers: — 1. Who wrote "Waltzing Matilda?" A. B. (Banjo) Patterson. 2. "What docs R.N. stand for? Royal Navy-

3. Which is the highest mountain in N.Z.? Mount Cook. 4. What battle in Canada did General Wolfe win? Battle of Quebec. 5. What day of the year is a command to go forward? March 4th. 6. The name of a country that is something used in a kitchen? China or Greece. 7. A country that is a name of a bird? Turkey. 8. A country that would melt in the sun? Iceland or Greece. i

NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION FOUR SCOPES Rangi Biddle lias: sent in this week's competition and lin suie it will make you think. See if you can name the 'scopes' which she describes and the three winners will win free picture tickets with my best compliments. 1. What "scope" is a device for detecting the existence of an electric current? % What "scope" indicates a submarine device for revealing objects above water. 3. Another "scope" that indicates a device for listening to the movement of heart and lungs? 4. A "scopc" instrument for making distant objects more distinct?