Gypsies 



Charlotte V. Gulick 

 Director of the Luther Gulick Camps 



Those of us who love nature dread to furnish any kind of bait 

 to induce others to enter into this love. It seems to belittle the 

 thing which we know is interesting enough in itself. It hurts us 

 to offer an incentive for learning the most wonderful secrets of 

 nature. Yet there seems to exist a certain hesitancy among many 

 young people, especially in the summer time, to give themselves to 

 anything that seems to mean work, or concentration. 



In last year's Nature-Study Review an article was published 

 about the nature work at our camps. That article was written 

 by me two years ago. We have had two more years of camp 

 experience since then and have established a new set of land 

 honor ranks namely, Little Gypsies, Gypsies, and Gypsy Queens. 



The results of these new ranks are most gratifying. You may 

 not be able to recognize the list of honors given below next year, 

 for we are always adding to and substracting from, the require- 

 ments and privileges attending all of our activities. The point is 

 to keep them alive and interesting. The ranks given previously 

 were superimposed while the Gypsy ranks were worked out more 

 or less by the girls themselves. 



We have only one Gypsy Queen and hers is an honorary 

 degree as we have not yet worked out the requirements and priv- 

 ileges for this rank. 



The weekly initiation to the various ranks is interesting and 

 quite thrilling when the Little Gypsies are allowed to partake of the 

 Gypsy brew and are given blue bandannas with the privileges of 

 the comradship of the open road. They enter a new world. 



Requirements For Little Gypsy 



Honors 



Camp Craft 



Walk 40 miles. Frye's Leap 5 miles, Raymond 10 miles, 

 Quaker Ridge 10 miles, South Casco 5 miles or other 

 walks as permission may be given. 



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