THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR” LEAGUE.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 75, 17 May 1946, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR” LEAGUE.

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. Well how is my bonny crew this week? I trust you are all well, and feel as fit as Peterkin, Butch and I do. Butinsky has a dose of the ’flu, and consequently is a bit down in the dumps. However, he should recover shortly.

Now then, about my trip to the Chatham Islands. You will remember that last week I concluded by telling you how I narrowly mhocd getting eaten by a shark. By the beard of Neptune’s great uncle, it makes my blood run cold to think of it. Anyway, I scrambled to safety, and joined Butch, who was siting on what was left of the bottom; (this was now the ’deck’; as you will we remember, we turned the boat upside down when the bottom started to fall out). We were both sitting there wondering what was going to happen next, when suddenly we heard several cries coming from down below in the direction of the galley. “Help, help!” the voice said. “He-e-e-lp. The water’s coining in fast!” Suddenly we recognised the voice. It belonged to Keelson, who, it turned out had dashed away to save the stew, and had sat down to eat it there and then. We helped him out, very wet and' bedraggled looking, and sat him down. “You sea slug,” said Butch. “Jumping jellyfish, but if you hadn’t tried to eat all thb stew without giving US any this wouldn’t have happened to you.” Keelson didn’t say anything, for he was feeling rather ashamed of himself, and besides, he was trying to figure out a way for us to get to the land which was only just in sight. Suddenly he sat straight up and smiled.

“I know,” he said, “I’ve got a really good idea. You and Butch swim in front of the lugger dragging it along with a piece of rope and I’ll sit up here and steer.” I looked down at the water (so

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did Butch) and we noticed several sharks swimming about so we didn’t think much of Keelson’s idea land Butch didn’t hesitate to tell him so). Suddenly to our consternation we noticed that we were getting farther and farther away from the land. In fact it was almost out of sight. That meant that the current was taking us backwards. Whew! What a jam! Well sailors, it’s time to conclude, so I will have to continue next week. Cheerio. P.T.W. LAST WEEK’S COMPETITION Suffering seasnakes, I think the school holidays must have made you all feel lazy for I received fewer answers to last week’s competition than I can remember for months. I received such a surprise when the postman came running up the path (instead of staggering bowlegged as usual (with a little wee skinny mail bag (instead of the usual big fat one). “Avast there landlubber,” I cried. “Where’s all the rest of my mail.” “Ha-ha, you’ve missed out this week Peter,” he chortled. “There’s only two letters.” “Only two letters!” I said. “But there’s usually thirty or forty.” “Well, there’s not this week,” he said. “That’s the sum total of your mail” and he emptied the two forlorn looking letters out on to my table. “Oh well,” I said, “I suppose I’ll have to put up with it. At least I won’t get a headache sorting out the winners this week.” The two sailors who sent in entries have both been awarded free picture tickets. They are: Judith Radcliffe John Biddle. Congratulations sailors. Although neither entries was totally correct, both were sufficiently well done to warrant a prize. You may collect your tickets from the Beacon Office with my best compliments. Correct answers to the competition were as under: — 1. A flock of sheep. 2. A shoal of

fish. 3. A troop of monkeys. 4. A herd of cattle. 5. A covey of partridges. 6.' A swarm. of bees. 7. A clutch of setting eggs. 8. A bunch of bananas. 9. A school, of whales. 10. A bunch of keys. 11. A pride of lions. 12. A litter of pups. 13. A lepe of leopards. 14. A kindle of kittens. NEXT WEEK’S COMPETITION Now here’s one that should be fairly easy. It’s called an ‘As-As’ competition, and simply means that you have to complete sayings which you use every day of your life without thinking about them. For instance, the first question says ‘As hard as The correct answer to this one is obviously ‘As hard as nails’. Catch one? Righto sailors, see what sort of a hand you can make of the questions underneath. They are all sayings that you should know without any trouble. 1. As hard as 2. As slippery as 3. As heavy as 4. As clean as 5. As cool as 6. As quiet as 7. As bold as 8. As right as 9. As old as CONTRIBUTIONS We need more contributions sailors. I think you all know what is required in the way of short pieces of poetry, jokes, etc., so see what you can send in. Remember that you only need ten points gained in this way to earn a free picture ticket, and many of you already have four or five points to your credit. P.T.W.