THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 81, 15 June 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

What ho what ho, ma hearties. ? I How are you all tihs week? Peterkin, McDougall and I are feeling fine, but Butinsky complains bitterly all the time of the intense cold (believe me, its pretty nippy over here on Whale Island) and seems j somehow or other to think that I am to blame l'or it. He spends all his time sleeping in front of the fire, and as a res'ult of having no exercise is getting fat and lazy. He always used to go down the track as soon as he spotted the postman bringing up- the mail, and help him up by a few bunts from behind but he doesn't bother any more. He apparently thinks it is too cold to leave the fire, and therefore doesn't even bother to wake up. Peterkin is enjoying the winter to the utmost. He was out the other morning when there were three inches of solid frost on the ground over here, playing around as happy as a lark. He takes; a particular pleasure in going in for a dip in the coldest spot of water he can iind and. then hopping out } running quickly up to the cave and shaking himself all over Butinsky. Of course Butinsky doesn't like tha't at all but the can't do anything about it as the moment he starts to chase Peterkin, Peterkin dives into the nearest bucket of water he can find and is tarts splashing about. McDougall is an entirely different propositon. In fact, I can't quite make him out. Some mornings he is up bright and early with Peterkin and swimming in the pool below the track, while other mornings he complains about it be-i ing much too cold and stays Jay the fire snuggled up against Butinsky. They're a queer lot, there's no doubt about but still, I wouldn't change them for any other pets at all .".They arc certainly great company, Well, I must continue with the rest of the page. Cheerio till next week. P.T.W.

TALKING THINGS OVER THE INWARD MONITOR Conscience never allows a man to entirely forget his evil doings. There is tile story of two men who put up lor a night at a certain tavern. Early in the morning they absconded without reckoning with their host and they also stole from him a bag of beans. Some years later, passing that wa3* t they again obtained lodging at the same inn. One evening the old "landlord being still at his post "was busy in one corner of the room talking in a suppressed , voice with a neighbour about a swarm of bees. The two dishonest guests, in anothpr part of the room indistinctly heard the talk about bees and one said to the other ? "Did he not say beans?'' "I think he was the reply and quickly they took themselves off. Now it was- not so. much the imperfect hearing as their guilty consciences that made "bees" sound like "beans.'" RIDDLES i When has a man a right to scold his coilee?—-When he has more than sufficient grounds. A little red thing on the hill—give it water and it will die give it hav i } *=> and it will live?—A fire. I r is a needle like a pfitato?— Because it has an eye. Why are up to date cities- not going to have lamp posts' any longer? —Because they are long enough. is the oldest piece of furniture in the world?— The multiplication table.

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" PETER THE WHALER e/WHALE ISLAND

MY MAIL, BOX Dear Peter the AVlialer } I wish to join your club for I enjoy reading your page. I am 11 and iir Std. IV and I also wish to have the Forest and Bird Magazine. I en- 1 close 3d in stamps. Yours truly ? Joan Powley. (Welcome sailor. Your certificate has gone out and 1 will see about your Forest and Bird Magazine. p.T.w.y LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION "T" TELEGRAMS Yes ? I certainly hit the nail on the head when I said I expected Vo be flooded with entries for this competition. They came at first slowly ? but each day brought its flood till on Wednesday I received a huge pile, in fact, so large that when. I looked at them all and thought that 1 could only give six tickets at the most, I sat down and cried. Yes, I hate to disappoint sailors: who carefully write out their entries and send them in and then just miss a ticket by the skin of their but you see how it is. I can't give you all tickets or the theatre man-* agcr would have something to say. Well this week's prizes I think go ■9 to the following:— Tilly Toad j Tauranga. Tell Teddy to take ten trout to Trentliam to treat the ten troops to the Tip Top tea tent tonight. Topsy Toad. Olive Hunter. Torn Thomasson * The Taneatua. Ted taking tools to Te Teko to-' morrow. Trying to take tomatoes to Thompson's too. Traced tricycle to Taumarunui today. Terry Todd. Neil Reid; Tommie Tucker^ Taneatua. Tell Tilly Tomkins take train tq Tauranga Tuesday, Taking trombone to Trixie Thomas. Tinij Taylor. Margaret Conn. Ted To ml in son •y Tarawera Turn-off, Taranaki. Tell Tim to take Ted to the Te Teko training track tomorrow to try Trio the thoroughbred. The time to try-out ten to ten. . Tiny the Trainer. Ngaire Elliot. Ted Taylor Thornton. Tell Tom to take 'twenty-two turkeys to travel ten-thirty train Tuesday. Twelve turkeys twelvethirty train Thursday to Tauranga. Tessa Taylor. Dick Robinson. » Timothy Thompson Tim aru. Tommy travelled tram-car today. Tell Tess Tucker to travel to tlie Temuka town tomorrow to take Tommy to the theatre Tuesday. Thelma Turpin. Barbara Macdonald. i NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION Now then here's one that, Avill make 3011 look at your maps. First you take the words 'Good Endeavour' and then find names of New Zealand towns starting with the letters in those two words. For instance the first* town might be Grey mouth and the second Ohakune. Anyway off you go and see if you can find 13 towns the first starting with the letter G, the second w r ith O and so on. P.T.W.