"
All those sitting round the fire get up and reply:
"And with you, peace."
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS
Law 6. A SCOUT IS A FRIEND TO ANIMALS.
_He should save them, so far as possible, from pain, and should not
kill any animal unnecessarily, even if it is only a fly, for it is one
of God's creatures. Killing an animal for food, or an animal which is
harmful, is allowable.
It is a curious thing that animals and children both seem to recognise
a good man when they meet him, and are at once friendly with him; and
I have always found that the bravest men are in their turn kind to
them.
You must have noticed how our soldiers at the Front and our sailors in
the Fleet all seem to have their pet animals and mascots, and when I
was in France I noticed on many occasions our men playing with the
little French children among their ruined homes close up to the firing
line.
They were all the best of friends: although they knew scarcely a word
of each other's language.
In the same way as a Knight or a Boy Scout is chivalrous to weaker
folk, so he is chivalrous also to animals.
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