Sea Scouts up-Channel

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Illustrated by C. M. Padday, R.O.I.
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It's going to be a dirty night, remarked Mr. Graham, Scoutmaster of the 9th Southend-on-Sea Sea Scouts. Not very promising for the first day of our holidays.
You are right, sir, agreed Desmond, the Patrol Leader. We are safe enough here; and, after all, the weather isn't everything. We're jolly lucky to be afloat.
Although we've nothing much to go to sea in, added Pat Hayes. This part of the coast is very different from Southend, isn't it, sir?
I can hardly believe we're miles from home, chimed in Ted Coles, the tenderfoot or greenhorn of the troop. My word, that shakes the old boat up! he exclaimed, as a vicious blast of wind bore down upon the side of the lofty superstructure of their temporary floating home.
It was a stroke of good luck, or perhaps good management on the part of Scoutmaster Graham, that five members of the 9th Southend Sea Scouts found themselves in the Isle of Wight.
They had that afternoon taken over the guardship of the 6th Wootton Bridge Sea Scouts, the latter having accepted an invitation to take part in a jamboree on the other side of the Channel at a place called St. Valerie-en-Caux.