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I was buying△ jy Christnlas cards last `veek
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difficulty, as nlany of you must have been,of choOsing frOm some hundl℃ -s Of different designs arranged in ternpˉ
a quiet and secret Good Turn by thin¨ king of so1mebOdy w⒒ h whom they had quarrelled during th(氵 year, ahd gOing
ay to forgive them.One scoutmaster couId thihk only of one bo步 with,whom hc had qoarrelIed,A r had been broken, nobdy adˉ windQ、 、 Ⅱ1itted having done it, but the culprit had been seen,and、 vllen he、 vas exposed the scoutlη aster angrily threⅥ 7hiFn out of the Troop as a oheat and a liar。 Taking h泌 Commis“ oners advice to l)eart, 1he Scout】 ηaster called on this boy and fOund out, as is so often the casc,that th0lad had intended to confess to his lllisdeed, b。 t h达 kept si10nt and
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robins, bel1s, f迂
lmous paintings, flower designs,and so on in great pr0fusiOn,
end with d1e boy coFning back into the Troop,and eventuaHy perhaps becoⅡ 1ing
and it struck me hOlv Iuany of lhe cards see1ued to have neglected the
a CQmmissi0ner himself Actually he did r句 oin the Troop, but, owing to his ￡ amily 1noving away from the
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District,oe very soOn gave up Scouting altogether. Nevertheless the scared h1tle boy。 ￡the sto1・ y did grow vo to be a leader in another field, and he
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did not admit tbe truth because he ・ ’ was ‘ scarcd stiff’ . 1′ he story shOuld
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I hoard sOme∮ me ago of a Com: missioner wl〕 o was asked to the Local Assooation just before Christmas,and in his speech urged his scouts to do
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fun and the galues o￡ the Christmas season. This is as it should be and I wish you all a b//Ie1・ ry Christη as, and alljoy and happiness in the New Year' Many of you, I know,are pot thinking only of your own happiness, fOr I h扌 ve already heard of tho plans you aro makng to bⅡ ng sOme Of the joyful spirit of Ch⒒ stmas to those less for∶ tunate than yourselves, There is no ′ need for me to rerllind you of y。 ur
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