The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-27
HOW BOY SCOUTS
AID OLD ENGLAND
YOUTHS DIARY TELLS OF
ACTIVITY
ON COAST
GUARD DUTY
Youth and Pardner in Isolated
Bungalow Watch for Coming
of "Germhuns."

LONDON. Feb. -tCorrespon-
fence Of the Associated Press .)--Thc
diary of Il boy scout, published in the
Manchester Guardian. is an interest
Ing piece Of Juvenile literature and de-
rcriDes more clearly than has here
tofore been done some OF the work
the scouts are doing.
III and | have complete charge
Of lG miles of coast" the young adj
venturer bonsts in telling of his life
in an isolated bungalow ON the north
shore on the lookout for hostile cruis-
ers and aircraft OF the signaling OF
3pies. lie tells of sleeping ON the
table on pile OF Overcoats until
midnight, when the two boys went on
duty.
Some paragraphs from the diary
read:
Had very decent night. Received
messages about the Zeppelin raid, and
as H and ! were alone we had
rather exciting time. We called the
military, rs instructed, and our six
hour watch passed like n few min
utes.
THE lookout box in which j am
now writing is small place. about
FIVE feet by eight, with windows on
three sides which look out to the sea.
1t has stove, cupboard, various tele-
phones. signals, revolvers. rifles,
clocks, telescopes etc. H--has now
the revolver round his waist. He is,
OF course. on duty outside. He comes
In every few minutes, passing remarks
on the night
"Friday-It is now midday, and
Ii and / have just come off duty.
We have had very interesting morn
Ing. Two government patrol boats
have passed quite close to us, also
two tugs towing big salvage crane.
which in turn was towing derelict.
Lie here Is great; you have no idea
how important and "bossy' we feel
when on watch, because even the SOL
diers come to us every hour 10 know
u we have any messages or orders
ihe 'dug-outs,' trenches guns,
along the coast are simply glorious;
really I'm In my element. We are
on very good terms with the soldiers
so good, In fact that when we said
u was q bit cold In our bungalows
the lieutenant asked for blankets. and
tne men, believe. offered so, ten of
which were accepted. have now
Tour blankets and greatcoat, also a
ground sheet and camp bed, and /
really sleep as we'll here as I do at
nome. the only difference being that
find no difficulty in getting up when
called. at all hours Of the. night or
day. We set 3 a6-honr rest. stand
Of nautical expression,) every fifth
day. @ i''n
Il have charge Of the log. and It
s,rae sS,rae'ically takes up all my spare
lime, because we are on IL hours end
on ~. But the log book promises
20 pe very interesting volume when
completed IL I keep up on tic same
ines as have begun. Yester,,av
morning had the Job cleaning all
the rifles, reNofvers, sword sticks and
ieatner work for the coast guards and
got complimented on the wav in
when 1 d'd 1t. so I suppose always
ghaii have the job. This Is the al Z
vantage g? OF being, thorough
"ogkman (please tell father tiiis.)
rms is rotten, Nat and uninter.
osting coast. although the surf on the
reefs tof which there are nIantuS
snakes q very pretty picture. ne is n
line place for landing .eerlnh,insi r.
tney knew where TO come: but AN tbe
nice landing places are ioily waii oil
guaraed Yesterday two of my fell
low mud diggers' came back n, :
very excited and breatfiiess Condition
-lney said they had found 3 mina
washed ashore. II turned out 70 be
an ola boiler of a ship
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