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FIRST CLASS GIRL SCOUTS
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They look a lot, but like many other difficulties in this world they are not so bad as they look when you smile at them and tackle them.

Here are the tests that you have to go through for becoming First Class Scouts:—

First Class Girl Scout

To become a First Class Girl Scout, she must have been a Second Class Scout.

I. Intelligence.


1st Class Scout
Be able to draw a rough sketch of the district around the troop meeting place, locating the important landmarks, and be able to direct a stranger to the nearest doctor, fire station, telephone, post-office, etc., from any point within that district, and to judge distances.

Be able to send and receive messages, in the general service code at the rate of thirty letters a minute.

Have fifty cents in the savings banks earned by herself.

Present a girl trained by herself in the test for Tenderfoot.

Know how to distinguish and name ten animals, ten wild birds, ten wild flowers and ten trees.