PART III
CITIZEN SCOUTS
(Over 16)
SENIOR SCOUTS
Even before the war came girls had begun to find that there were better things in the world for them to
Loafing on the pier.
do than merely spend half their time in getting up their dresses and the other half in showing them off: there was enjoyment to be got without playing tennis, reading novels and so on; some of them had supposed that going to dances or loafing on the pier or in the street was the only way to get enjoyment, but others saw that this was really a great waste of time that became very boring after a bit. A vast number of them had seen that they were capable of doing a great many of the things that their brothers could do: they could play in a lot of games and take part in activities and also could do a good deal in the direction of work and handcraft, also they
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