'You are a great Cook Jimmy”
Said Mrs Capt Cook in awe
Speaking to the great navigator, her husband,
Who she very seldom saw.
'Where are you off to this time Jimmy?
To what strange foreign shores.
I know you are going somewhere
I saw you pack your naval drawers
'Tell me where you're going Jimmy
In that tiny boat of yours
That has no outboard motor
and no wooden rowing oars”
Capt Cook RN drew himself up
his chest and muscles flexed.
And then explained to Mrs Cook
where his ship was going next.
'I will go looking for New Zealand
across the many countless miles.
Then I'm heading north to Hawaii
To find the Sandwich Isles '
'Don't go to those Islands Jimmy!
You'll meet trouble at that spot.
The locals are quite unfriendly
and will drop you in a cooking pot”
But Capt Cook paid no heed
paid no attention to his loving wife
He went to the Sandwich Islands
and paid there with his life
To honour Cook they wrote a book
about the great navigator's life.
They called it 'Jimmy's Cookbook”
It was autographed by his wife.
But the highest honour bestowed
on the Great Navigator at his death
was the sound of bells and whistles
when they made him Master Chef!”
B Conroy, Otumoetai
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