"Jacky" had a habit of running ahead of his nurse and suddenly darting across the road. The spirit of adventure; probably he was ambitious to be a boy scout. Eventually, finding that warnings were not heeded, the nurse told him that when she saw a policeman she would ask the Representative of Law and Order to take him away and put him in prison. Presently a policeman appeared on the horizon of the pavement. "Now, Master Jacky, you'd better behave yourself!" the nurse whispered warningly. But young Jellicoe was not the least afraid of the man in blue. He advanced to meet him and solemnly looked him up and down. "Nurse says you're to take me in charge," he announced. The constable, taken aback, smiled and asked the nature of the "Charge." "Disobeying orders," was Master Jack's reply. "And I say, policeman, what ripping buttons you've got on your uniform!" Jellicoe never knew fear or favour. But evidently as a youngster he realized the meaning of discipline and order. In telling this little incident the nurse is reported to have said that Master Jacky was extremely disgusted when the policeman refused to take him away and lock him up. Maybe he thought that the policeman ought to have been reported for not doing his duty. At twelve years of age young Jellicoe left the Rottingdean school, and it was then that Captain Jellicoe decided his boy should have his chance in the Royal Navy, instead of following in his footsteps and entering the Mercantile Marine. So he went up for his preliminary examination and passed into the old Training Ship _Britannia_ with flying colours. From this moment there was no stopping young Jellicoe. As an Instructor tersely remarked, "He was a holy terror"--but not in the sense which that expression is generally meant to convey. He was just as quiet and well-disciplined a boy as he has been since he grew to manhood's estate. But he was "a holy terror" for work. Any sort of work. To whatever he put his hand--or his mind--he accomplished. At this period he is described by one who knew him as being short, thin but wiry, rather pale, with large determined mouth and nose, and a pair of extraordinarily bright eyes. In spite of his aptitude for mental work (the first year or two on the _Britannia_ is taken up with as much "book learning" as "boat learning"), there was nothing of the bookworm about young Jellicoe, and the most fierce youthful opponent of "swotting" could never have accused him of priggishness. He was just born with a desire for knowledge and an aptitude for obtaining it without apparent effort. At the same time he was as keen as any other boy on games. In spite of his diminutive inches he was useful with the gloves; he could swim like a fish; he was a good all-round cricketer, and a very deadly left-hand bowler. He is still a splendid "oar," a first-class rifle shot, and on a grouse moor he lets very few birds "get away."