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 the Queen's Hospital very kindly found nurses, who were on duty there the whole time.

Prince Arthur looked inside the Bingley Hall hospital while he was there and saw lying on the bed a young Scout who had been taken ill, and had subsequently to be removed to the General Hospital. He was too unwell to be able to take any notice of the visitors, and lay there with eyes shut. Somebody, however, said to him, "The Prince has come to see you!" Even in his pain the little fellow did not forget his duty as a Scout, but, although almost unconscious, he feebly raised his hand to his forehead in the Scout salute, and opened his eyes for a moment to see the Prince looking down on him with that pleasant smile which made him so popular with every boy he passed that day. The little lad then turned over and shut his eyes again, too ill to take any interest in what was going on.

The health of the great army of Scouts during the whole week was remarkable! There were the usual cuts, sprains and bruises, but only three boys were left behind in hospital at the end of the time, and in each case the illness must have been contracted before the boy left home.

One youngster from Dorset had a bad stomach-ache before he started, but would not tell his mother for fear of being left behind! He developed a mild attack of appendicitis, but soon got better without an operation being necessary.

Alongside of the hospital at the Exhibition there was a beautifully fitted-up bedroom, where Scouts were to give