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Title: The Wolf Patrol
A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts

Author: John Finnemore

Release Date: December 31, 2009 [EBook #30810]

Language: English

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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 the
love of boys as the Boy-Scout movement founded by Lieutenant-General
Baden-Powell. It has done so because it touches at once both heart and
imagination. In its dress, its drill, its games, its objects, it jumps
perfectly with the feelings of the boy who adores Robinson Crusoe,
Chingachcook the Last of the Mohicans, Jim Hawkins, who sailed to
Treasure Island, buccaneers, trappers of the backwoods, and all who sit
about camp fires in lonely places of the earth. It is a movement which
aims at making all boys brothers and friends, and its end is good
citizenship; it is a foe to none save the snob, the sneak, and the
toady.

Amid the general chorus of congratulation on the success of the
movement, only one dissentient whisper has been heard, and that has
gathered about the word 'militarism.' But the Boy-Scout movement is no
friend of militarism in any shape or form, and the murmur is only heard
on the lips of people who have never looked into the matter, and never
read the Scout Law. The movement is a peace movement pure and simple,