THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY for the Goodwill Cruisen

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 28, 30 November 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY for the Goodwill Cruisen

What ho, what ho ? ma hearties. We've certainly had some '.scorchers' this week haven't we; in fact on Tuesday ? I was very mucin afraid that- we were all going to l'rizzlc up and blow away. I think that last week I was telling you about the time a party of us Avent narwhal hunting., after we had all landed safely on the beach we sat about trying to think up how to go about catching the narwhals which were lying about everywhere and disporting themselves on the sand. Suddenly Rufus (the cook) had a brilliant idea. He. explained it to us and we all became very enthusiastic PVer it. Two of lis went hack to the schooner to collect the articles necessary to the success of our plan, and the rest of us set about building a fire on the beach, A short time, later the boat arrived back on the beach } and the two occupants came staggering up to us with a I large iron cauldron and strings add strings of sausages. Yes sailors the idea was that,if we flung enough sausages to the narwhals, they would eat so many that in time they would become too full to move } and we would be able to catch them at our leisure. We. placed the cauldron over the fire -and proceeded to cook the sausages. As each string was done to a we removed it i cut it up 3 and flung it to the nearest batch of narwhals, ' who gobbled down the. delicacies withi evident relish. But by Neptune's toenails;, we didn't realise what big appetities narwhals had. The boat went back to the schooner for more, supplies and and more till in the end there wasnt a scrap of food aboard, it was all in the narwhals' turns-. At last there wasn't a crust left and Ave decided that now or never was the time to lay the narwhals by the heels. Accordingly ? we form, ed ourselves into a line and crept slowly toward the nearest bunch. We were within a foot or two of th'e nearest one, when suddenly Whoosh! They all sat up and lung-" ed straight for us. We tried to but were all 'knocked flat and the narwhals disax>peared into the tide. We tried the next bunch and the next } and the next and'each time the same thing liap'pened, till in the end. there wasn't a single narwhal in sight. Dejectedly we stepped into our boat and roAved back to the schooner. We couldn't have for there Avas nothing to eat. [n fact Ave couldn't have, anything it all until Ave made port. That vas certainly a hungry and you ;an imagine; how popular Rufus Avas

for it was his, idea in the first place. as there was* nothing to eat Rufus didn't have anything to cook, and consequently didn't have any work to do for the remainder of the trip. We made port a fortnight later and were we hungry! We all rushed straight to the nearest fish and chip shop and had a good tuck-in. We all made a solemn vow to.o —No More Narwhal Hunting. Well sailors 5 its time to get on with the rest of the column. Cheerio for this week. P.T.W.