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Many field trips have been taken, sometimes just to see what 

 could be found, but usually with a definite object in view, — to 

 gather greens for decorating the camp fireplace, to pick raspberries 

 for the table, to find rare ferns, to visit a gorge or a marble quarry, 

 or to take supper upon the top of a favorite hill. On all the trips 

 the girls are astonished to find how many interesting things appear 

 along the way. 



One little camper remarked: "If I had known that nature 

 meant going out into the woods and seeing things I should have 

 signed for it before. At school we have nature study all out of 

 books and it is horrid. But I just love this ! I live in the country 

 where it is lonely, but if I can learn something here about nature I 

 need never be lonely any more." 



Very many girls who did not sign at first, thinking that they had 

 not tim.e for it, have found during the summer that they wished 

 to take up nature work. They come with their specimens when- 

 ever they have leisure. Sometimes they become so much inter- 

 ested that they forget to go to their next regular appointment. 

 Often and often they have said, ''I had no idea that nature was 

 so interesting!" or "Oh joy, I have fifteen minutes more for 

 nature!" 



In all the activities at Teela-Wooket, as a recognition of work 

 accomplished, various kinds of insignia are awarded. The nature 

 councilors have designed some insignia for their department 

 which meet the requirements here and which might be adapted 

 with slight changes to any locality. The finished token is a circle 

 of white felt upon which is stencilled a six-pointed star. Each 

 line is of a different color, representing a different phase of nature 

 work. These bands may be won in any order, and are awarded 

 as soon as any list is completed. The colors and what they 

 represent are as follows : 



Violet — 25 flowers. 



Red — 25 birds. 



Green — 15 trees. 



Yellow — 15 ferns and club mosses. 



Orange — 15 small animals. 



Blue — 15 insects. 



For special interest and for identifying more than the required 

 niimber there is added a gold colored center (a brass spHt ])in). 



