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Bott

About what year?

Clark

From 1910 on; from 1910 on, when we changed our name. And we were the first Boy Scouts from that point on. Then unfortunately for me - some of the boys carried on later, but my parents were not wealthy parents - I was expected to do some work, and I did. I had to drop out of the Boy Scout movement fairly early in life: I mean when l was sixteen or seventeen, somewhere along like that.

I had to drop out and go to work, but of the others who carried on, George White is one of the outstanding ones, and he's still alive in Cos Cob. Albert Finiels is still alive, and his whole life has been devoted to Boy Scouts and that kind of thing. The other is Joseph Burns. Joseph Burns unfortunately has become deaf, so that he can't carry on like the rest of us do, but he looks back onto his day.

By the way, we all had names. Joe Burns that just flashed into my mind, he was Eel Scout. Now, how did he get the name of Eel Scout? He caused us more trouble, because he could do something that none of the rest of us could do. Mr. Seton became very friendly with the ticket agent down at the railroad station at Cos Cob, and Mr. Seton, before we came to camp, would take some things down and give it to the ticket agent at Cos Cob. And one of the boys was chosen to be the scout, and he would get a ten-minute lead from the others in camp, and he would be expected to go down to the railroad station, and get one of the items that Mr. Seton had left there, and bring it back.

Now he was supposed to be a scout in the Indian warfare, and the rest of us would try to block him off. Well, how did we try to block him off? Please keep in mind that the Boston Post Road, at the time that I'm speaking of, had very little traffic on it. In fact, we used to play baseball right in the middle of what is now the Boston Post Road. We who were the scouts who were trying to stop him would go down and string ourselves all along the Post Road. But Joe Burns in some way could get down to the railroad station and get that paper, and get back, and we couldn't find him. We could not find him. We tried days and days and days, and he got through.