THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR young READERS ONLY Aboard Goodwill Cruise

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 74, 21 May 1943, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR young READERS ONLY Aboard Goodwill Cruise

What ho, Avhat ho, ma hearties. Br-r-r-r, isn't iit cold in the mornings. It takes me all my time 1 to roll out and get the breakfast for myself, Butinsky and Peterkin. These are the days, when II get a good old fire going and ay arm my cave up so that in the evening T can sit down cosy and warm by the

embers and read my old favourites —"Swiss Family Robinson," "Robinson Crusoe," "Master Midshipman Easy,' and "Westward Ho." Wonderful old books they are too and I never tire of reading them. I Avonder just how many'of you have: read them and, how they appeal to you all. Do you know, when I was a little boy every young fellow use.il to read them and be' thrilled to the toe nails about, the characters. I expect you have new heroes these days—more modern ones perhaps like Buck Rogers. Times change of 'Course but I expect each littlfe boy or girl decorates his of her hero in much the same way Whether they belong to the middle ages, the present day or indeed— the future. Now I expect I?d better stop talking and get on with the story. Cheerio till next Avee.k P.T.W.