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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS

don't throw away the bit of paper that held your candy or cake. It not only makes the place look untidy, but it means work for someone else to clear it up. Therefore, carry your paper to the waste-paper bin, or burn or bury it.

How to make a Bed.—To manufacture a bed in camp is a different thing from "making your bed" in a house. To make a bed for camp use the following is the dodge:—

To make a Camp Loom.—Plant a row (1) of five stakes, 2 ft. 6 in. long, firmly in the ground; opposite to them at a distance of 6 ft. to 7 ft., drive in a row of

Using a camp loom.

two and a crossbar (2). Fasten a cord or gardener's twine to the head of each stake in No. 1 row and stretch it to the crossbar in No. 2 and make it fast there, then carry the continuation of it back over No. 1 row for some 5 ft. extra, and fasten it to a loose crossbar or "beam" at exactly the same distance apart from the