A Fairy Tale Mutiny
p. 86 · Read in the full issue
The story of the mutiny in the Bounty has now bees turned into a fairy tale in pictures and verse, for the edifies tion of small children.
THE tale is at present being pub lished as an exciting serial in an English comic paper called Playhour.
The real hero of the tale, how ever, is neither Captain Bligh nor Fletcher Christian, but a white guinea-pig called Gulliver—a much travelled guinea-pig who has starred in many other heroic adventures.
In the Bounty, he is against the mutiny and is therefore forced to accompany Bligh in the open boat.
The tale is told in verses designed to amuse children. Here are two samples;
So eighteen souls are set adrift And each is heavy-hearted.
The ocean breakers plunge and lift.
As from the ship they’re parted.
Her decks are crammed with mutineai Who bid farewell with boos and jt The 18 sailors in the boat— Although their hearts are failing— • To try and keep themselves afloat, Are bravely busy bailing.
They’re wretched, hungry, cold and w And still the storm continues yet . .
The coloured drawings wM’ illustrate the first verse quoted . soundly based on history—see Role Dodd’s famous painting of Captc Bligh being cast off from
Bounty.-
R. A. Langdon.
From Dodd's famous painting of Bligh and his men being cast off from the "Bounty"
Tongan waters.