Sixth Day:  Saving life:  from fire, drowning, sewer gas, runaway horses, panic, street accidents, improvised apparatus, and first aid.

Seventh Day:  Patriotism:  national geography, the history and deeds that won our world power, the navy and army, flags, medals, duties of a citizen, marksmanship, helping the police.

Eighth Day:  A summary of the whole course:  sports comprising games and competitive practices in all subjects of the course.

CAMP ROUTINES

6.30 a.m.  Turn out, bathe, etc.
7.00 " Breakfast
8.00 " Air bedding in sun if possible
9.00 " Scouting games and practice
11.00 " Swimming
12.00 m.  Dinner
1.00 p.m.  Talk by leader
2.00 " Water games, etc.
6.00 " Supper
7.30 " Evening council around camp fire
Order of business: 
Opening council
Roll-call
Record of last council
Report of scouts
Left-over business
Complaints
Honours
New scouts
New business
Challenges
Social doings, songs, dances, stories
Closing council (devotional services when desired)
10.00 p.m.  Lights out.

The father of scouting for boys in America, and in fact the inspiration for the movement in England under Lieut-Gen. Sir Robert S.S.  Baden-Powell, K.C.B., is Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, the distinguished naturalist and nature student.

The official handbook of the organization may be obtained from Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, N.Y., the publishers of this book, or from the national headquarters of The Boy Scouts of America.

III

CAMPS AND CAMPING

How to select the best place and to pitch the tent—­A brush bed—­The best kind of a tent—­How to make the camp fire—­What to do when it rains—­Fresh air and good food—­The brush leanto and how to make it

Going camping is the best fun in the world if we know how to do it.  Every healthy boy and girl if given an opportunity should enjoy living outdoors for a week or two and playing at being an Indian.  There is more to camping however than “roughing it” or seeing how much hardship we can bear.  A good camper always makes himself just as comfortable as he can under the circumstances.  The saying that “an army travels on its stomach” means that a soldier can not make long marches or fight hard unless he has good food.  The surest sign of a “tenderfoot” is the boy who makes fun of you because you try to have a soft dry bed while he prefers to sleep on the ground under the mistaken idea that it is manly or brave.  He will usually spoil a trip in the woods for every one in the party.