WHAT HE WANTED
Irish Boy Scouts worked a special joke of their own on the Chief Scout. When Lord Baden-Powell received the gift of a motor-car from the Scouts of the world at the jamboree camp, he said ho had now everything he wanted except a pair of braces. This deficiency was made good at an informal ceremony, when he was presented by the Irish Free State Scouts with a pair of gaily coloured braces strong enough to bear the weight of a ship's anchor. The Chief Scout was ambushed as he drove up in his new Rolls-Royce car. On receiving tho gift he roared with laughter, and, hanging the braces round his neck like a Mayoral chain of office, said: "I have everything in the world now. This is splendid."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 19
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131WHAT HE WANTED Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 19
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