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THE WOLF PATROL
A TALE OF BADEN POWELL'S BOY SCOUTS
BY
JOHN FINNEMORE
Author of
"Jack Haydon's Quest," "Two Boys in War-time," etc.
A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5, AND 6, SOHO SQUARE
LONDON, W.1
1923
First published October 15, 1908
Reprinted 1909, 1910, 1911, 1914 and 1917
This edition published in 1922; Reprinted in 1922, 1923
Printed in Great Britain by
WARRILLOWS LTD., PRINTERS,
Birmingham and London.
DEDICATED (BY SPECIAL PERMISSION)
TO
LIEUT.-GENERAL R. S. S. BADEN-POWELL, C.B.
THE FOUNDER OF THE ADMIRABLE MOVEMENT
ON WHICH THIS STORY IS BASED
PREFACE
No movement of recent years has so swiftly and so completely won thelove of boys as the Boy-Scout movement founded by Lieutenant-GeneralBaden-Powell. It has done so because it touches at once both heart andimagination. In its dress, its drill, its games, its objects, it jumpsperfectly with the feelings of the boy who adores Robinson Crusoe,Chingachcook the Last of the Mohicans, Jim Hawkins, who sailed toTreasure Island, buccaneers, trappers of the backwoods, and all who sitabout camp fires in lonely places of the earth. It is a movement whichaims at making all boys brothers and friends, and its end is goodcitizenship; it is a foe to none save the snob, the sneak, and thetoady.
Amid the general chorus of congratulation on the success of themovement, only one dissentient whisper has been heard, and that hasgathered about the word 'militarism.' But the Boy-Scout movement is nofriend of militarism in any shape or form, and the murmur is only heardon the lips of people who have never looked into the matter, and neverread the Scout Law. The movement is a peace movement pure and simple,and its only object is to make a boy hardy and strong, honest andbrave, a better man, and a better citizen of a great Empire.
Of this story it is perhaps permissible to say that it has been read byGeneral Baden-Powell, who has been so kind as to express his warmapproval. Writing to the author, the founder of the movement says:'Wishing you all success for this so excellent a work.'
THE SCOUT LAW*
I. A Scout's honour is to be trusted.
II. A Scout is loyal to the King, and to his officers, and to hiscountry, and to his employers.
III. A Scout's duty is to be useful and to help others. He must do agood turn to somebody every day.
IV. A Scout is a friend to all, and a brother to every ot