THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 48, 11 February 1944, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. Here we are again alter nearly two weeks at school and. already biting off large chunks of 19U. Its raining and pretty misty over here on Whale island but it' this wind keeps up T: expect it will clear away soon. From, my percli # l see that you are not faring so badly at Whakatane, its dull, but' you haven't got that wretched drizzle all the time like L have. lit penetrates everything and even .sends, my sea-boots mildew. Its a good thing in one way, for its the only time Butinsky the goat won't chew them. My two pets are both doing well and I'm not pi raid that Peterkin will leave me now. He's far too much of a pet and likes the warmth of his little box. He's the best little fellow I've ever had ■for a pet, and I think he thinks I'm I not so bad. cither. Well now, to get lon with our page. Here wo go—

OUR STORY A WHOLE BAGFUL- OF TRICKS 1 wonder if you have heard of a doggie with the same name ns the dog has in this story? Jtt is the same as the name of some of your playmates —June! Yes. June! June is a fox terrier. Her master is very fond of her, and lias care-, fully taught her tricks which r-muse and delight all who go to her home. 1 shall tell you of, some.

June is given a saucer of milk at night before she is shut up in hei kennel. Her master takes her on his knee and, the mistress ol the house, who also loves June, every now and then adds some milk to the saucer the master holds. "No more, June," sometimes says her master; "you have had enough!" but June, takes no notice. •'We want some for our porridge, June,"' he .says, "and there wont be any for us if you drink any more." June stops l drinking then, and won't take another drop, unless he adds, "it is all right, June: there is plenty for breakfast." Every Sunday night the. mistress of the house writes a letter to her niece. When the master comes home from Church he adds a fe\y lines to the letter and then takes it across the road to the pillar box. With much excitement Juno waits: lot

that moment, for it spells a run up the street, and like all doggies she loves a run nearly as much as a good meal, for most doggies would leave the best bone or the juiciest piece of meat for a walk with their master of mistress. Last Sunday night, as usual, June scampered along to the post box with her master. When they were coming home they met a man who had heard of June's clever ways, and he asked the master to show him one of her tricks. "Go and get my hat," said, the master to June, for he had come up the. street without one. Olf like a shot she went, down j the street, through the gate, anil into the house, tin her master's room

she looked first in one corner and then in another. It was not in its usual place—no, it was nowhere in the room. She ran into the hall and searched there; she looked throughout the house; there was no sign of it. June felt like eying (yes, doggies can cry), so disappointed. was she, but quickly in her doggy brain came, the though*. ''I'll take him something else!" The two men waiting, up the street, presently saw a strange sight.

Towards them camc June, dragging after her, not the hat,, but a pair of her master's trousers. With great glee she dropped them at his feet. One day the niece of the mistress of the house camc home for holidays. Of course June, "was put through her tricks for her benefit. On the lloor in the dining room were two newspapers and a pair of the master's boots. "What shall you have, Nell?" asked the master. "1/ should like "the Advertiser,"' she replied. So June went and brought her that paper. "Do you want anything else?" he asked. ''Yes, I should like that boot," she said. The little dog ran over to the boot and picke.l it up in her mouth, dropped it, and repeated the action a number c-f freci.

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"It is too heavy," said kind-heart-ed. Nell. Quick as a Hash June dropped the boot and wagged her tail in approval. But the master knew June was only pretending the boot was too heavy (yes, doggies often pretend), so he called her to him. "Go and bring that boot," said he. Back to the boot went June, and, with perfect ease,, she picked it up and brought it to Nell. June has never been known to disobey her master —she loves him so much.

SEA TINTS The sea is commonly repuicd to be blue, but in many places it is seldom or never that colour. The variation of tint is due in a large measure to> the formation of. the bed of the ocean. Where it is rocky, you will generally find the water blue, though, on occasions, it will appear perfectly colourless. Clean sand will give the same effect. In places where the bottom is muddy, the water will take on a similar hue, only gaining a blue tinge after days of cloudless sunshine. Green is another colour that is often seen. This is generally a sign that the water is shallow enough for soundings to be taken, whereas water with the hue of indigo blue is usually of great depth. Soundings in the Atlantic go as deep as nine miles.

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ORIGIN OF NURSERY RHYMES Many of our nursery rhymes have been handed down lor thousands ol years, and were probably nature tales told by mothers of long ago to their children to express things which to-day we understand much better. Many stories arc tolcl about nursery rhymes. Little Red Riding Hood, for example, is really the tale ol' the sun going along its regular path, while the wolf, or the terrible darkness which early man feared soi much, lay in wait to swallow it every day of its. life. We still hear the. saying "as dark as the inside of a wolf's mouth," because ol' this old idea of darkness being the wolf that swallowed the little Red Hiding Hood's sun every night. Some nuresry rhymes arc political, and in former times covered up in vei-se what people did not dare to sa3 r openly. Little Jack Horner is said to have been Henry the Eighth, and his saying, ''What a good boy am 1," as he pulled out

a plum, referred to his; defiance of the Pope, over his marrying yet another wife.

Says shipmate Charlie Pettit of Tancatua: "Glad to .see you back again alter your sad experience 011 the Island wishing you all the. best for 1944." Thank you lad, thank you and the same to you with all sorts oi nice thirigs added for the. now year. Congratulations on 3 r our excellent writing. All the best. P.T.W.

Caught five of you out on the spelling of one word that was Ivahawai. Bit of a trap that lish for most people pronounce it 'Kawlmi' like a lot of my crew spelt it. Still tlie jumbled letters were there alright so 1 lxad to take my fat blue pencil and put a big cross alongside it. There were still, five who spelt them all correctly and here tlicv a re:— Margaret Arbuckle Isobel Grant Huppy Jaram Charlie Pettit' Fay -Rawson Congrats, call and collect j r our free picture tickets which of course are accompanied by my best comnlimnnts*.

NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION | i A competition in which members arc asked, to Jill in the blank spaces *j. l : presented this week lor solution. All the missing words end with the letters "OWN," as in ''shown." Here is the story which is to be finished: — A— — up member of our League, dressed in a suit, went to a circus. There he saw a —-— with a comic on his head. Afterwards the member was home, but the aeroplane was about so much that the pilot wore a —- and. said, "If we full into the. sea we shall — — Free picture tickets will be awarded for the first three corcct entries. Well, off 3 T ou go and get your thinking caps on. P.T.W.