SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
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the stars and can watch them by the hour and see what they 
really look like, and realize what an enormous expanse of almost 
endless space they cover. You know from your lessons at school 
that our sun warms and lights up a large number of different 
worlds like ours, all circling round it in the Heavens. And when 
you hold up a shilling at arm’s length and look at the sky, the 
shilling covers no less than two hundred of those suns, each with 
their different little worlds circling round them. And you then 
begin to realize what an enormous endless space the Heavens 
comprise. You realize perhaps for the first time the enormous 
work of God. 
Then also in camp you are living among plants of every kind, 
and you can study them in their natural state, how they grow and 
what they look like, instead of merely seeing pictures of them in 
books or dried specimens of them in collections. 
All round you, too, are the birds and animals and insects, and 
the more you know of them the more you begin to like them and 
to take an interest in them ; and once you take an interest in them 
you do not want to hurt them in any way. You would not rob a 
bird’s nest; you would not bully an animal; you would not kill 
an insect — once you have realized what its life and habits are. In 
this way, therefore, you fulfill the Guide Law of becoming a 
friend to animals. 
v By living in camp you begin to find that though there are 
many discomforts and difficulties to be got over, they can be got 
over with a little trouble and especially if you smile at them and 
tackle them. 
Then living among other comrades in camp you have to be 
helpful and do good turns at almost every minute, and you have 
to exercise a great deal of give and take and good temper, other- 
wise the camp would become unbearable. 
So you carry out the different laws of courteousness, of help- 
fulness, and friendliness to others that come in the Guide Law. 
Also you pick up the idea of how necessary it is to keep every- 
thing in its place, and to keep your kit and tent and ground as 
clean as possible ; otherwise you get into a horrible state of dirt, 
and dirt brings flies and other inconveniences. 
You save every particle of food and in this way you learn not 
only cleanliness, but thrift and economy. And you very soon 
realize how cheaply you can live in camp, and how very much 
enjoyment you can get for very little money. And as you live in 
the fresh, pure air of God you find that your own thoughts are 
clean and pure as the air around you. There is hardly one of the 
Guide Laws that is not better carried out after you have been 
living and practising it in camp. 
Habits of Animals . — If you live in the country it is of course 
