BOY SCOUTS

Hutt News, Volume 19, Issue 11, 15 August 1945, Page 4

BOY SCOUTS

HE KEEPS THE Bth SCOUT LAW. He was sitting in bed when I saw him on Saturday evening at Wellington Hospital. Around him were the mejmbers of his family, who had macle the weary journey from Pahiatua to see him. One of my friends who knew them stopped to talk, and I was introduced. The boy was pale, but his eyes were bright and he was happy. They said in that Ward that he was always like that and gave them no trouble, yet he had very good cause to be otherwise. Some weeks ago", while playing football, he received a bad kick which later turned to an i" abscess. Since then he has had 96 injections or penicillin—one every three hours, and he is still having them. He showed me where the needle was pushed in and said, .1 feel just like a pin-cushion." His dad had brought him a 'super' air pistol and the boy fondled this longingly and took sighting-shots at the lights. Let us hope that before long he will be up again, playing football, swimming, and doing his job once more as a school prefect. There were letters in a box from nis school mates, one of which said, "Hurry up and come back to be our prefect." The Ward was full of flowers they had sent. He is Colin Brown, Boy Scout, of Pahiatua. He is 13 years old, and he keeps the Bth Scout Law "A Scout smiles and whistles under all dimculties." "KAMAHI.'