But to take part in these practices and games it
is necessary that a Scout should be able to swim, and I hope that
every Scout will take the earliest opportunity of doing so.
And not only should he learn swimming without delay, but also study
the means he ought to take for saving a drowning man and for reviving
him when he has got him ashore. No Scout is too young for this.
I saw a case in the paper recently which is a fine example to other
boys, where Frederick Delvin, eleven years of age, rescued another boy
from drowning in the Surrey Canal, near the Old Kent Road bridge.
A small boy named George Spear was fishing in the canal when he fell
into the water, and was on the point of drowning when Delvin, who had
learned to swim last summer, jumped into the water and brought him
safely ashore, and thus saved his life.
Well, now, any Scout could do that, if he knew how and had the pluck,
and I should hope that every Scout has that at least.
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JACK TARS' PRESENCE OF MIND.
A serious disaster was narrowly averted at Dover in connection with a
treat given to six hundred schoolgirls on the battleship
_Albion_.
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