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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS

In this book I will show you as briefly as possible how you become a Scout, and what you have to do to make yourself fit for service. And I can tell you right off now that one thing you've got to do is to laugh and enjoy it all; you can't help doing so when you get into it.

What the Guides Do

As a Guide your first duty is to be helpful to other people, both in small everyday matters and also under the worst of circumstances.

Finding the Wounded.

You have to imagine to yourself what sort of things might possibly happen, and how you should deal with them when they occur. Then you will know what to do.

I was present when a German aeroplane dropped a bomb on to a railway station in London. There was the usual busy scene of people seeing to their luggage, saying good-bye and going off by train, when with a sudden bang a whole car was blown to bits, and the adjoining