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SECTION V 
THE OUT-OF-DOOR SCOUT 
Busy as the Girl Scout may be with learning to do in 
a clever, up-to-date way all the things to improve her 
home and town that the old pioneer girls knew how to 
do, she never forgets that the original Scouts were out- 
of-door people. So long as there are bandages to make 
or babies to bathe or meals to get or clothes to make, 
she does them all, quickly and cheerfully, and is very 
rightly proud of the badges she gets for having learned 
to do them all, and the sense of independence that comes 
from all this skill with her hands. It gives her a real 
glow of pleasure to feel that because of her First Aid 
practice she may be able to save a life some day, and 
that the hours of study she put in at her home nursing 
and invalid cooking may make her a valuable asset to the 
community in case of any great disaster or epidemic; 
but the real fun of scouting lies in the great life of out- 
of-doors, and the call of the woods is answered quicker 
by the Scout than by anybody, because the Scout learns 
just how to get the most out of all this wild, free life and 
how to enjoy it with the least trouble and the most fun. 
One of our most experienced and best loved Captains 
says that “a camp is as much a necessity for the Girl 
Scouts as an office headquarters,” and more and more 
girls are learning to agree with her every year. 
Our British cousins are the greatest lovers of out-of- 
door life in the world, and it is only natural that we 
should look to our Chief Scout to hear what he has to 
say to his Girl Guides on this subject so dear to his heart 
that he founded Scouting, that all boys and girls might 
share his enthusiastic pleasure in going back to Nature 
to study and to love her and to gain happiness and health 
from her woods and fields. 
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