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Their motto might well have been that which the Boy Scouts use to-day:
_Never say die till you are dead_--struggle on against any
difficulty or danger, don't give in to it, and you will probably come
out successful in the end.
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THE MALTESE CROSS.
Most of the Oversea Scouts wear, in addition to the Scout's badge of
the fleur-de-lys, the badge belonging to their country. For instance,
the Canadian Scouts wear the maple leaf, and the New Zealanders wear a
leaf of the tree fern.
If the Maltese Scouts want a badge of their own they could not do
better than adopt the Maltese Cross of the knights, and then stick to,
and act up to the meaning of it.
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HOW MALTA CAME TO BE BRITISH.
When Napoleon was trying to conquer the whole of Europe a hundred
years ago, he proceeded to take Malta.
But the Maltese people rose, and held the rest of the island against
him, and sent and asked the British under Lord Nelson to come to their
assistance.
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