Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude H. Miller
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the ability to do for one's self, in order that a boy may grow strong,
self-reliant, and helpful. This is a partial list of the subject in the camp curricula. A model scout camp programme is given here. It takes eight days to carry it out, but there is material enough to run ten times the number of days specified. A SIR R.S.S. BADEN-POWELL SCOUT CAMP MODEL PROGRAMME _First Day_: Preliminary work: settling into camp, formation of patrols, distribution of duties, orders, etc. _Second Day_: Campaigning: camp resourcefulness, hut and mat making, knots, fire lighting, cooking, health and sanitation, endurance, finding way in strange country, and boat management. _Third Day_: Observation: noticing and memorizing details far and near, landmarks, tracking, deducing meaning from tracks and signs, and training the eyesight. _Fourth Day_: Woodcraft: study of animals, birds, plants and stars; stalking animals, noticing people, reading their character and condition, and thereby gaining their sympathy. _Fifth Day_: Chivalry: honour, code of knights, unselfishness, courage, charity and thrift; loyalty to God, country, parents and employers, or officers; practical chivalry to women; the obligation to do a "good turn" daily, and how to do it. |
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