SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
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The Guides must also notice prominent buildings as landmarks, 
and the number of turnings off the street they are using. 
In the Country. — Take the patrol out for a walk and teach 
the girls to notice distant prominent features such as hills, church 
steeples, and so on; and as nearer landmarks such things as 
peculiar buildings, trees, rocks, gates, by-roads or paths, nature 
of fences, crops, different kinds of trees, birds, animals, tracks , 
people, vehicles, etc. Also any peculiar smells of plants, animals, 
manure, etc.; whether gates or doors were open or shut, whether 
any smoke from chimney, etc. 
Send Guides out in pairs. 
It adds to the value of the practice if the instructor makes a 
certain number of small marks in the ground beforehand, or 
leaves buttons or matches, etc., for the girls to notice or to pick 
up and bring in as a means of making them examine the ground 
close to them as well as distant objects. 
Practices in Natural History. — Take out Guides to get speci- 
mens of leaves, fruits, or blossoms of various trees, shrubs, etc., 
and observe the shape and nature of the tree both in summer and 
in winter. 
Collect leaves of different trees; let Guides make tracings of 
them and write the name of the tree on each. 
In the country make Guides examine crops in all stages of 
their growth, so that they know pretty well by sight what kind of 
crop is coming up. 
Start gardens if possible ; either a patrol garden or individual 
Guides’ gardens. Let them grove flowers and vegetables for profit 
to pay for their equipment, etc.. Show all the wild plants which 
may be made use of for food. Find yew trees ; report if any 
good branches to make archers’ bows of. 
Encourage the keeping of live pets , whether birds, animals, 
reptiles, insects . Show hozv to keep illustrated diary-records of 
plants, insects, birds, etc., giving dates when seen for comparison 
following year and showing their peculiar markings, etc. 
If in a town take your Guides to the Zoological Gardens A 
menagerie or Natural History Museum, and show them particular 
animals on which you are prepared to lecture. Not more than 
half a dozen for one visit . 
If in the country get farmer or shepherd to help with informa- 
tion on the habits of farm animals, e. g. how a cow lies down 
and when. How to milk, stalk rabbits, water voles, trout, birds, 
etc., and watch their habits , 
