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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
mand Halt is given when the leading unit has advanced 
the desired distance; it halts; its leader then commands: 
Left Dress . Each of the rear units, when opposite its 
place in line, resumes the original direction at the com- 
mand of its leader; each is halted on the line at the 
command of its leader, who then commands : Left Dress . 
All dress on the first unit in line. 
To Diminish the Front of a Column of Squads 
Being in column of squads: 1 Right (or left) By 
Twos , 2 March. At the command March , all files except 
the two right files of the leading squad execute In Place 
Halt; the two right files of the leading squad oblique 
to the right when disengaged and follow the right files at 
the shortest practicable distance. The remaining squads 
follow successively in like manner. 
Being in columns of twos: 1 Right (or left) By File, 
2 March. At the command March, all files evecute In 
Place Halt, except the right file of the leading two oblique 
successively to the right when disengaged and each fol- 
lows the file on its right at the shortest practicable dis- 
tance. The remaining twos follow successively in like 
manner. 
Being in column of files of twos, to form column of 
squads ; or being in column of files, to form column of 
twos: 1 Squads (Twos) Right (or left) Front Into Line, 
2 March. 
At the command March, the leading file or files halt. 
The remainder of the squad, or two, obliques to the right 
and halts on line with the leading file or files. The re- 
maining squads or twos close up and successively form 
in the rear of the first in like manner. 
The movement described in this paragraph will be 
ordered Right or Left, so as to restore the files to their 
normal relative positions in the two or squad. 
