Fellows boxed up in a ship together naturally become the best of
friends and comrades if they are naturally good chaps with good
tempers; if they are not--well--then I would rather not be in that
ship, thank you!
Sailors are always manly fellows, and know how to give and take, and
they manage to keep their tempers when small things go wrong.
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GENERALS WHO WERE SAILORS.
Two of our greatest generals to-day began their careers as sailors.
Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood won his Victoria Cross as a midshipman
in the Royal Navy while serving in the Crimea. Field-Marshal Viscount
French, late Commander-in-Chief of our Forces in France and Flanders,
was a sailor before he joined the Army, and so was Sir Hamilton
Goold-Adams, who commanded the Town Guard so well in Mafeking.
I have always found that a Boy Scout who has been a Sea Scout as well
as a Backwoods Scout makes much the best all-round Scout in the end.
So I can well advise Scouts to have a taste of both.
A patrol or troop can easily take up Sea Scouting for one season if
they like, just as a change.
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