WOLF CUBS’ CORNER.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18850, 21 January 1933, Page 15 (Supplement)

WOLF CUBS’ CORNER.

"AKELA'S” LITTLE YARN. How mnnv of you havo pets of some sort? Most Cults I know have some animal friend. Some possess dogs, others kittens, some rabbits and gulnoa-ptgs—ln fact, all varieties or animals find their way to Cubs’ households. The main thing- Is. however, .0 look after them and treat them as frtends. keep their dens as clean as possible, Tor they like nice spotless beds Just as you do. Another thing, see that there Is plenty or fresh water for drinking purposes available; It should be changed every day. Write and tell mo about your animal friends. Yours Cubbily, "AKELA.”

DEED 3 OF VALOUR. BRAVE BUGLER BOY. A NEW ZEALAND STORY”. (Retold by Commissioner R. F. Ward.) (Continued from last week.) No sound this time. Something crept siealthllv. slowly—how slowly—towards him —crouched close to the cleared ground and moved with inllnite patience through the fern.

■‘Tliov’i’p on us!” . ~ „ With nils e\r 1 aiiii'itlon the sentry lltrow rorwai'cl his musket and nrert—hurriedly, blindlv, inning no one; and the report was almost drowned In the wild uproar which Install!lv followed. The sentry shrieked a warning-; the men or ilie picket discharged their muskets and swung ihem up by the. barrel, as half a hundred naked Maoris, upsprlngiug rrom the fern, veiled and screeched with fury, realising they had been observed Just a moment too soon. hut one sound topped all otliers. Clear and shrill on the air or that pallid morning rang the notes of the “Alarm.” as vming Mien blew with nil the power or ids lungs—not so much to summon, as to save, ills sleeping- comrades. Down went the sentry with a bullet in his brain. The men or the picket reeled to the ground, shot or stabbed or tomahawked. and still young Allen blew lustily —“Awake: Awake!” A huge Maori rushed on him and matched at the bugle. Still holding the

By "Akela."

mouthpiece to his lips. Allen dodged him and—ran? No; stood still and blew, clear and sharp: “Awake! Awake!”

With a grunt or wrath the savage I raised his tomahawk and smote strongly I downwards. The keen steel almost clave the lad’s bugle from Ids nerveless fingers. But. ero It fell the brave boy caught it In Ills left hand, set. it again to his Ups, and Tor the last time blew the Quavering notes—“ Awake! Awake!" Then the Mauri struck once more, and Allen Tell. Many a brave man wears the proud cross “For Valour.” Was It ever better deserved than by the boy who sleeps forgotten, and who simply did his duty? Whilst tills tragedy was being enacted a fierce attack was made upon the defenceless quarter or Hie farm, whence blent. Page, aroused by poor Allen's last buglo call, rushed with two of hl3 startled men. They wore immediately driven back, but presently, while the sergeant with a handful kept the Maoris at bay. Tagn and six men, carrying three wounded under a hot fire, managed to reach the stockaded barn and join forces with the hulk of the command. The end of the affair came after that. The British poured out of the barn, led by their ofllecr and Mamaku and his Maoris, having no liking ror cold steel, scampered across the stream, having killed six and wounded four of the small company of the soH dlers. Lieutenant Page subsequently promoted for his gallantry In beating oCC a force twice as great as his own. (The End.) NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS. “Ft’s 1033. I romember when I was at school; a new term was starting and wo lmd new exercise books issued to us. I used to look at my old one of the last term,” writes “ Littlejohn,” in the Dally Telegraph. “It would be very, untidy, blots and smudges, and I would make good resolutions to mako my new books perfect models. I started off with red Ink and ruler, and the first page was wonderful to behold. Then It got worse, and worse until I got so disgusted that It became Just as bad as the old one. “ I know now that I tried to be too perfect all at once. If I bad Just tried to improve my worst fault, my writing, I should probably have done so and been so encouraged that 1 should have improved others. So, 1 think, we should do with our New Year resolutions. Just look over our law and see which one we broke most orten in 1032, and then do our very best to put up a better fight. Don’t say you are going Jo be a perrect Scout and then get so disheartened that you give up. " We must all try to mako our Scouting second to none In ourselves, our patrol, our troop and our district. So let us all get together and put our ahouldera to ltd and push all together,”. *