Harold Begbie
The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664600547
Table of Contents
AN INTRODUCTORY FRAGMENT ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE SKIPPED
BRONKERSPRUIT, INGOGO, LANG'S NEK, KRUGERSDORP
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Page | |
| Major-General R.S.S. Baden-Powell | Frontispiece |
| Professor Baden Powell | 7 |
| Mrs. Baden-Powell | 11 |
| B.-P. reflecting on the After-deck of the Pearl | 21 |
| Rev. William Haig-Brown, LL.D. | 41 |
| The Dashing Hussar (B.-P. at 21) | 61 |
| "Beetle" | 79 |
| The Family on Board the Pearl | 107 |
| "Viret in Æternum" | 179 |
| Goal-Keeper | 201 |
CHAPTER IToC
AN INTRODUCTORY FRAGMENT ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE SKIPPED
You will be the first to grant me, honoured sir, that after earnestness of purpose, that is to say "keenness," there is no quality of the mind so essential to the even-balance as humour. The schoolmaster without this humanising virtue never yet won your love and admiration, and to miss your affection and loyalty is to lose one of life's chiefest delights. You are as quick to detect the humbug who hides his mediocrity behind an affectation of dignity as was dear old Yorick, of whom you will read when you have got to know the sweetness of Catullus. This Yorick it was who declared that the Frenchman's epigram describing gravity as "a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind," deserved "to be wrote in letters of gold"; and