THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 77, 1 June 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

What ]io. what ma hearties. Well ; the weather has certainly become colder over the past few weeks hasn't it. It's usually so cold in the mornings now over on Whale Island that Peter'kin and I are the only ones to get up at six o'clock in the morning to go lor a swim. Tlie other two pets say it is .much too cold, and prefer to stay tucked up in bed till it gets warmer. In fact these last few ,days they have stayed in bed all the time and not bothered at all to get out. Still, I don't blame them as I feel like doing the same myself. Butinsky was saying to me only yesterday that it was about time his winter coat arrived. It is a bit late coming thisyear .so I have made him ( a pair of underpants and a jerkin to go with them to keep him warm till his hair grows thicker'. MeDougall never leaves oft' complaining bitterly of the cold and says that if he had any sense, he would grow wings and 11 y to the tropics for the winter months, Of course Pcterkin is actually more ;it home than any of us during winter. Having been born in the cold south he does not feel the nip in the air and takes great delight in going for an early morning dip. He caught a herring the other day while. he was ducking and diving around and, is consequently very proud of himself. Well it i.s almost time to put the tea on to coo'k so I suppose I had better get. on and finish the rest of the page. Cheerio for this week. P.T.W. OUR STORY THE BOY IN THE WOODS

Once there was a little boy named Carl. One day he went out into the field near the woody. He was very happy because he could run and jump about in the green grass. He could make all the noise he pleased. So lie shouted, "IIo ; hop!" And what do you think happened? Back from the woods came the same words, "Ho ; ho ? hop!" "Who are you?" cried Carl. And the voice replied "Who are you?" Then Carl shouted at the top ol' Ilis voice,, "You are a bad boy!'' And back came the words "You ? are a bat! boy!" Carl was. very angry. "You are a| i'ool," he shouted. "You are a fool," came back the reply. "Come out and I will light vou" cried Carl and again the voice answered as before. But no one came out. Then Carl ran into the woods. He hunted everywhere for the bad boy but could not find hi<m. So he ran back to the house and told Jiis father about it. "Come and help me find that bad boy father" he said. "Make him stop calling me

nu mes." "I know that had boj 7 very well " said his father. ''You called him ba'd names first ; didn't you?'' Carl thought a minute. "Why yes I did 5 " lie answered. "Ihe boy in the woods just fives' back the words which you speak to him ? " .said Carl's lather. "Let's go mto the field and .see il' we can make him say pleasant things," So they went to the edge of the woods. "Now, Carl;" said his lather "Call out in ;i I'riendly voice." So Carl "Hello boy how do you do!" And the voice answered back the .same friendly words. "Do you see?'' said Carl's father. '"It was your i'ault that the boy did not answer you pleasantly before. Just as you talk to the boy in the woods j he will talk back to you." "Bett3y' said the history mistress "you heard me say that Mary followed Edward the Sixth. Do you know who 101 l owed •Mary?" "Her little lamb" replied Betty, absent-mindedly.

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— &Y I " PETER THE WHALER I of WHALE ISLAND I

MY MAIL BOX Dear Peter the Whaler, I wish to join your club. I am 11 and in Std. 3. "Would you .send mo the Forest and Bird Magazine X3lca.se. I enclose threepence in stamps. Yours faithfullv V 9 Valerio Limvood. (Welcome a!>oard Valerie. T have .sent your certiiicate out to you, and 1 will see about the Forest and Bird Magazine for you. P.T.W.) Dear Peter the Whaler 9 1 wish to join your Good Endeavour League. I am 9 in. Std, 3. I am enclosing threepence in .stamps. Will you please send me the Forest and Bird Magazine. Yours faithfully, Neil Ileijd. (What ho here's- another new me#iber wants to sign on. 1 will see about your certiiicate Neil and also the Forest and Bird Magazine, IVf.W.)

LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION I'KST JOKf.S Yes, I liad quite a good chuckle over the entries to last week's competition. I .sat by the lire last night and opened the letters, one by one and believe me some of the entries sent in were really very Funny. The best ones I think were the following:— Very Brief A college boy litiding his lands rather low .sent the following telegram home: — Dear Dad f No inon, no fun. Your Son. Tlie reply came back: —- Dear Son Too i)a ; d ) so sad. Your Dad. Lietli Stewart. Not Quite When John came home from his lirst Sunday School lesson his father >:aid to him: "Well Son and who was 9 the father of Cain and Able." The boy paused a few moments, and then ventured the reply: '"George Formby," Margaret Arbuckle. llie iollowing one was also sent in but there was no name on it:— Spoil Sport A blufl old Anglo-Indian was telling a jungle story in the club lounge: "It was in the dead of night," he exclaimed dramatically. "Suddenly t heard the noise of a violent thundering tread in the undergrowth and 1 linew that it was an advancing intent on destruction. I crept out and shot it dead in my pyjamas!'' "Jiut t my dear how did the brute get into your pyjamas?" drawled one of the listeners. NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION

Now here's one lor Ihe sharp-eyed. Ik-low you .see u picture ol' a drawing room complete with all fittings and Cu rn iture. See how many objects in Lhe room which start with P ami (". you can pick out. Righto off you go and don't forgot to have your onirics in by next Wedne.-day at mid-day. Actually I might say. that the earlier an entry coinc.s in the more chance it has of winning i a prize so don't carry your letter I about in your pocket for several r days before you remember to post ] it. J'.T.W. 1