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EXAMPLE OF A DISPLAY
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to visit the other Patrol or inviting them to visit themselves at their own headquarters and entertaining them and having their competition and making great friends with them; this leads to very good feeling between different Troops, and is very useful, because you can often pick up ideas from Patrols of another Troop better than you can from one of your own Troops. In camp a Patrol is a very useful unit because a whole Patrol can just pitch into one tent or probably into one room or barn, or wherever it may be, and there the Patrol Leader's duties are very responsible, because she has to keep order in her own tent and see that it is properly kept clean and tidy.

Example of an English Display

A Scout Hostel.—Scene: Inside a Scout Headquarters, fitted with bed, stretcher table, cooking stove, cupboard, Scout Law, etc.

Patrol at right of stage learning electricity and telegraphy.

Patrol at left of stage bathing, dressing, and feeding model baby.

In centre Brownies learning a dance; all under their Patrol Leaders to demonstrate the method of instruction in the Scouts.

After short demonstration one of the telegraph Scouts stops all work by saying that she has intercepted a wireless message saying "Air raid coming on."

Patrols immediately fall in under their leaders, one as stretcher party and the other as first-aiders, with haver-