when you came to Mr. Grenfel and he let you in our troop right
away!"

"Didn't you even know we had Boy Scouts in America?" asked Harry.
"My word as you English would say. That is the limit! Why, it's
spread all over the country with us. But of course we all know
that it started here -- that Baden-Powell thought of the idea!"

"Rather!" said Dick, enthusiastically. "Good old Bathing-Towel!
That's what they used to call him at school, you know, before he
ever went into the army at all. And it stuck to him, they say,
right through. Even after Mafeking he was called that. Now, of
course, he's a lieutenant general, and all sorts of a swell. He
and Kitchener and French are so big they don't get called
nicknames much more."

"Well, I'll tell you what I think," said Harry, soberly. "I think
he did a bigger thing for England when he started the Boy Scout
movement than when he defended Mafeking against the Boers!"

"Why, how can you make that out?" asked Dick, puzzled. "The
defence of Mafeking had a whole lot to do with our winning that
war!"

"That's all right, too," said Harry. "But you know you may be in
a bigger war yet than that Boer War ever thought of being."

"How can a war think, you chump?" asked the literal-minded Dick.

Again Harry roared at him.