We left Polly recounting how she had arrived to rescue the chums. This war. her story: “When you had gone,” she told them, “the storm sprang up and, of. course, I wondered what was happening to you. When you did not return at night I was terribly worried. In the morning I rushed round to the old boatman, and told him 'what had happened. ‘We’ve got to find them!’ I insisted. And so he said that he would see what he could do.” Polly and- the old boatman lost o time in putting to sea in search of the chums. Now the boatman-knew that there, were one or two islands just off the chCji'p, and so he decided to explore them first. Polly took a prominent place in. the. prove of the boat,.and.reported what she could see as they proceeded. Yety soon they approached, the island, and,-although.they could see no signs o.f ihe missing chums, decided to explore it. That is how. they got on the island and met each other.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 1 September 1934, Page 10

We left Polly recounting how she had arrived to rescue the chums. This war. her story: “When you had gone,” she told them, “the storm sprang up and, of. course, I wondered what was happening to you. When you did not return at night I was terribly worried. In the morning I rushed round to the old boatman, and told him 'what had happened. ‘We’ve got to find them!’ I insisted. And so he said that he would see what he could do.”

Polly and- the old boatman lost o time in putting to sea in search of the chums. Now the boatman-knew that there, were one or two islands just off the chCji'p, and so he decided to explore them first. Polly took a prominent place in. the. prove of the boat,.and.reported what she could see as they proceeded. Yety soon they approached, the island, and,-although.they could see no signs o.f ihe missing chums, decided to explore it. That is how. they got on the island and met each other.