THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Aboard for the Goodwill Cruisel

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 47, 12 February 1943, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Aboard for the Goodwill Cruisel

"What ho, what ho ma hearties. This is great, after all those weeks of inactivity to be able to write to you again. I almost began to think that (the. Editor was going to cut the Good Endeavour League right out of ithc paper. 'By the. ten toenails of Neptune,' I said,' if he comes at that I'll march in and wreck the whole of the Beacon office.' But he; merely said that he wanted you all to settle down after the holidays and then- when you were more at home again,, off we could start once more. So here we are ma hearties, and right glad I am to see you. I'll* be.t you had a wonderful time in that long spell of fine weather. Me, well, I was engaged on a fishing trip most of the time right up to Russell in tihe Bay of Islands—lsut more of that later. In the meantime I am getting things shipshape here and I Avant to start the new year with all my books and record's right. lif the Japs get chased out of the Pacific, we might even take another pleasure cruise. Who knows? Well now lets, get on with the page. I was talking to* a man the other tlay who told me of tfvvo funny rhymes with the wordj Timbuctoo in them. I thought they were good and so I am repeating them for your benefit. Here they are:—

I wish I was a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary Arms and legs and hymn-book too! Clever isn' it? Here's the other:—

Him an awful wi!d horse Massali! Him from far-off Timbuctoo. Him can bite, and him can gallop, Him can kick and him buck too.