older soldier faces without a visible tremor of eye or hand.

It is difficult to get confidence if you begin by getting "awfully
scared." Every boy, and every girl too, should know how to swim, and
both are more than eager to learn. Now, the boy who can swim, and who
is properly proud of the fact, will, if he stops to think, recall a
time not very far distant when he lacked confidence and could not keep
himself afloat for a second. And he may recall how frightened he was
when some foolishly thoughtless friend or heartless bully tried to
duck him, or to push him beyond his depth.

BE KIND

The first hard fight I ever had was with a big boy--it is the conflict
I look back at with the most pleasure--who was holding a smaller boy
under the water. We fought quite naked, and--well, I licked the bully,
and never after that did he try to frighten small boys in that
swimming hole.

Boys will be boys, but even then each should have in him much of the
man he hopes one day to be. Therefore I say, be a protector, a guide,
philosopher and friend of the younger boys, and if you know more than
they do of anything, and they want to learn, teach them in a cheery,
manly fashion, if you have the time. Avoid conflicts, but if you must
have one, see to it that the bully will not be eager for another such
meeting.

GOOD ADVICE

Before saying more, let me give you another bit of good advice. Never