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Rh Then she lights up a camp fire, cooks her food, and makes herself comfortable on her mattress of ferns or straw.

But to do this she must, of course, have first learnt how to light a fire, how to prepare and cook her food, and how to weave a camp mattress, and so on, all of which she learns in her ordinary training as a Girl Scout.

Camp cooking.

In camp you learn to make all the different things you want, because there is not always a shop round the corner where you can go and buy them.

The following are a few out of the many things that Scouts learn to do for themselves.

In the Tent.—Scouts are always tidy, whether in camp or not, as a matter of habit. If you are not tidy at home, you won't be tidy in camp; and if you're not tidy in camp, you will never be a thorough Scout.

A Scout is tidy alike in her tent, bunk, or room, because she may be suddenly called upon to go off on an alarm, or something unexpected; and if she does not know exactly where to lay her hand on her things, she will be a