Boy Scouts and What They Do/Foreword

by Anonymous

Foreword.

This book does not pretend to give a full account of all that took place at Birmingham during the great Scout week in July, 1913.

It would take an edition the size of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" to do that!

This is merely a brief survey of what took place, with a few incidents that came to the notice of one individual there, and he not a very observant one at that!

Nor can any mention be made of the names of those men to whose faithful work the success of the event was entirely due.

If it were attempted this book would look like a Directory!

Everybody concerned worked like a Trojan.

The Chief Scout expressed his thanks to them for having done their duty, and that is all they expect.

The Chief Scout, the Editors of the "Headquarters Gazette," the "Scout," and the "Birmingham Daily Post," and various others, have written interesting accounts of what took place.

Many of the following pages have been taken from them without any further acknowledgment being made.

Having admitted the many short-comings beforehand (which, by the way, is better than leaving them to be found out afterwards), we will go straight ahead with our subject.

The Perthshire Band, which carried off the Band Prize.