If more evenings than one are available in the week one of the subjects might be taken in turn more fully each evening and rehearsals carried out of a display.
CAMP FIRE YARN NO. 1
SCOUTS’ WORK
Peace Scouts - Kim - Boys of Mafeking
I suppose every boy wants to help his country in some way or other.
There is a way by which he can so do easily, and that is by becoming a Boy Scout.
A scout in the army, as you know, is generally a soldier who is chosen for his cleverness and pluck to go out in front to find out where the enemy is, and report to the commander all about him.
The colonists, hunters, and explorers all over the world are all scouts. They must know how to take care of themselves.
But, besides war scouts, there are also peace scouts—men who in peace time carry out work which requires the same kind of pluck and resourcefulness.
These are the frontiersmen of the world.
The pioneers and trappers of North America, the colonists of South America, the hunters of Central Africa, the explorers and missionaries over Asia and all wild parts of the world, the bushmen and drovers of Australia, the constabulary of NorthWest Canada and of South Africa — all these are peace scouts, real men in every sense of the word, and good at scoutcraft:
They understand how to live out in the jungle. They can find their way anywhere, and are able to read meanings from the smallest signs and