TWO OF BADEN-POWELL'S ADVENTURES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2661, 26 May 1908, Page 7

TWO OF BADEN-POWELL'S ADVENTURES.

j Some nine or ten years ago, when j Baden-Powell was stationed in Simla* 'an Italian Count, who was underI stood to be a diplomatic plenipoten- ' tiary travelling incognito on business jof international importance, visited the summer capital of India. For upwards .of a week he met everyone anir went, everywhere. At the 'end of thattirfae the- Count give a dinner to the assembled station, the clo'sb of It be JtQbk off his' \vig f and behold there veas Badei^Rßyfll. : who had been mixing all that' time unknown, ampngst hi&.djeare&Jdends. On onb occasion - Baden-Powell had to'-flUy Sam Gerridge, the gasfitter, in "Caste," and sought inspiration, by donning clothes favoured by artisans and frequenting their resorts. Thus attired, he had an amusing adventure. While studying a crowd witnessing the arrival of drawingroom debutantes, a lounger brutally j assaulted two respectable girls among tlfe' onlookers. ' With the arm Of - u Sir Gareth he smartly landed the bully into the gutter. 8.-P received the thanks of the delivered, and unconcernedly walked of!; but the af- ' fianced of one of the girls—a plea-sant-lookirrg mechanic—cfftflQ up to I him, and, •-warmly ' expressing his j thanks, extended an invitation to tea. Nothing loth, the young cavalry officer accepted in the same spirit, spent a pleasant time with his newlyfound friends, arid at the same time perfected himself in the character he was learning. The sequel happened a few years afterwards. Whilst on duty in connection with the Jubilee,;he again met Jim Bates, for that was his name. I This time as the happy father carrying a bonny boy perched high on his shoulder, and the mother walking proudly .in the rear. They _were out seeing the sights. ; 8.-P* hnfriedrv l scribbled a note on a visiting-card whilst on horseback, and gave the happy possessors admission to an enclosure for the Jubilee procession, and at the same time revealed 8.-P's identity. '