THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 16, 19 October 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

What ho what lio i ma hearties. Well the line weather we've been having certainly makes one want to get outside. The other day, I decided that seeing it was so nice and sunnj r ? I might as well let the pets make the most of it and according, ly I took them on a fishing trip.

We went over to the Rauriinas and camped for the night and came back the next day Avith quite, a good haul of fish. We set out on Tuesday] the four of us, in Monty (the dinghy) and after a pretty stiff pull made the Raurimas just in time for dinner (at least McDougall made it clear that he thought it was time. | for dinner although I'm not so sure that it was; you see I forgot to bring my trusty alarm clock). ,We found a good spot for a fire, and while Butinsky and Peterkin collected some sticks I set about put. ting the sausages in the pan and getting them ready to cook. Soon they were ready to eat, and we all sat down around the fire for dinner. We had several pounds of sausages^

but Ave cleaned them all up without much trouble. Peterkin had two I 9 bad three Butinsky had 'live and 5 J MeDougall had fourteen (I've never yet seen anyone eat sausages like MeDougall can). Anyway, alter we'd finished I decided it was time 1 to do some lishing. We rowed out in Monty found a good spot and dropped our lines overboard. At Butinsky and I dropped our lines overboard but MeDougall and Peterkin both declared, that it was a silly way to -catch ILsh and dived overboard to sec what they could catch themselves. Sure enough, they did quite well and every now and then Peterkin would come up to the boat and drop in a line "rat lish. MeDougall however didn't .seem to be having any luck at all. Each time he came to the surface he bad a very doleful look in his eyes ) and I began to feel quite sorry for him. We returned to our camp in time for tea and it was not long before we had a good meal laid out in front of us ? but strange to say, MeDougall dJd not seem to want any. Now

this "was very strange, as usually McDougall is always one of the first to finish. But he didn't seem to want his tea at all. He just pecked at it and finally left most of it on his plate. I asked him if he was sick or something, hut he seemed to he quite well. I couldn't make it out for quite a long whil-e and suddenly I tumbled to what had happened. McDougall just wasn't hungry. Of course not, he was so full of fish that he could hardly move. All afternoon he had been eating the fish as he caught them ? instead of delivering them into the boat as, PeterUin had been and all the time I was feeling sorry for him as I didn't think he. was having much luck; the little rascal. Of course I didn't scold him. as after all thev were bis fish he j - > caught them and so I suppose he had a perfect right to eat them, but he put it across so neatly. "We.ll we spent the night oil the Raurimas in comparative -comfort and the next day returned to Whale Island with enough fi.sh to last us; for several days. Cheerio till next week. P.T.W.