He got a name for steady, persevering work,
and for giving full value for any money paid to him.
For these reasons he obtained good contracts for building bridges, and
soon enlarged his business into a very big one.
Among others, the great Tay bridge and the bridge over the Forth in
Scotland are his work.
He died a rich and highly respected man, but in the height of his
power he never forgot that he began as a poor boy, and he always did
what he could to help other poor boys to win their way to success.
He used, however, to say that success depended mainly on the boy
himself. If a boy were determined to get on, and knew a handicraft or
two, he would probably succeed, but if he merely dabbled in one thing
and then another, and wasted his time in amusements, and could not
stick it out when luck seemed against, him, that boy would be a
failure, and would probably go on being a failure all his life.
* * * * *
THRIFT IS MANLINESS.
So you see if, as a Scout, you pick up and really practise what
Scouting teaches you, it gives you every chance of being a success in
life, since it teaches you to be active and enduring, to be
trustworthy, to be obedient to your duty, to be thrifty, and to learn
handicrafts.
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