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was turning over some photo-
graphs the othθ r day whθ n I came across
one of the scout Tr。 。p run ih an Intern血 ent
Camp duⅡ ng the War
years. The photOgraph itself was, of course, taken when wθ werO libe了 ated by a group of A1nerican soldiers who parachuted Ⅱ⒒raculously out of the skies togethθ r wi1h all the amenities of
civⅡ isation。
I shudder wheh
thing u“ form ab。 ut us was o1Ir scarves,
and we had chosen blue for our colour 岱 脂 ⒒ Ⅱ吁 i。 吁噍 丨 |i;:摁 e坩 one occasion having to recover two of the scouts from thθ Guard Room where they had been taken bθ cause of their suspicious activities in rnaking a:η ap of t{|∶
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excθ pt in so far as our wh° le lives were
・ a poor im讥 ation o￡ camp。 Yet some 20 or more bo夕 s remained scouts through the years;two of then1passed~heir First 01ass,not perhaps entirely in accordance w⒒hP.0,R。 ,but I am certain in a sp加 it which would have been approved by B。 P。 Looking back on thosθ years I think
some of us learned the secret of reol happinθ ss。 I know“ A scout smiles and ’ whistles under au difficulties,’ re {but thθ
is perhaps a litde more to it than that。 At least,I think what B。 P。 meant was that the best cure foi feeling miserable
is to get up and do somθ thing。 If you get on and do a j。 b you just don’ t have thne to feel unhappy。 And,o壬 course,as our Pron⒒ se imp⒒ es it is even better
黥 哏 牡 钮 F;熨 ⒏ 揩 捃 揩 memorable occasion we obtained per【 nˉ ission to have a campˉ fire;unfortunateIy the seniors whose job it was to0ut out
to be doing something for someone
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the θ njoyable
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t camp￡ iFes
、ely often the l。 ss were dropped。 exciting parts of sc° uting are got through chθ erfully, becaus。 of the inspiring thougbt of the camping which 0厂
else。
It is people who think selfishl夕
only of themselvθ s
who are most
I we11remember ti【 ne1he scouts I have
hkely to be unhappy。
d裙e烈 s器 滥γ beon thinking about had in rnaking forts
led in the night; after th。 ˇ
wⅡl be possible later;we had no camping
I
think of the kinds of unifor1m wθ wore in those days, about the only
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and soldiers for the young children one Christmas。 The soldiers were cardbcard stuck into a mud standˉ luckily1we had one scout who could draw, and tho rest of us cut out and daubed oi paint as
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