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 composed of the men who are working the movement— those patriotic fellows who give up their leisure and their energies to making better men of our rising generation, doing their work unostentatiously behind the scenes but none the less effectively and gloriously.

In the ranks of the lads stood brother Scouts not only from Scotland and Ireland, but from Oversea Dominions, and from other lands. From far away Shanghai a smart, efficient patrol was present, while from Spain and France, Hungary and Sweden, and other Continental nations came contingents.

It needs no great stretch of imagination to see in this the promise of a closer bond between the future of our Empire across the Seas, and a stronger guarantee of future peace between the nations when their men begin to look upon each-other as members of one brotherhood instead of as hereditary enemies.