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Title: Girl Scouts
Their Works, Ways and Plays

Author: Unknown

Release Date: April 4, 2008 [EBook #24987]

Language: English

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GIRL SCOUTS

THEIR WORKS, WAYS AND PLAYS

"_Be Prepared_"

[Illustration: Cover]

[Illustration: Girl Scout Logo]

GIRL SCOUTS
Incorporated
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
189 Lexington Avenue
New York City

_Series No. 5_

GIRL SCOUTS

MOTTO

"_Be Prepared_"

[Illustration: Girl Scout Logo]

SLOGAN

"_Do A Good Turn Daily_"

PROMISE

On My Honor, I Will Try:
To do my duty to God and to my Country
To help other people at all times
To obey the Scout Laws

LAWS

I A Girl Scout's Honor is to be trusted.

II A Girl Scout is loyal.

III A Girl Scout's Duty is to be useful and to help others.

IV A Girl Scout is a friend to all, and a sister to every
other Girl Scout.

V A Girl Scout is Courteous.

VI A Girl Scout is a friend to Animals.

VII A Girl Scout obeys Orders.

VIII A Girl Scout is Cheerful.

IX A Girl Scout is Thrifty.

X A Girl Scout is Clean in Thought, Word and Deed.

GIRL SCOUTS

Their Works, Ways and Plays

The Girl Scouts, a National organization, is open to any girl who
expresses her desire to join and voluntarily accepts the Promise and
the Laws. The object of the Girl Scouts is to bring to all girls the
opportunity for group experience, outdoor life, and to learn through
work, but more by play, to serve their community. Patterned after the
Girl Guides of England, the sister organization of the Boy Scouts, the
Girl Scouts has developed a method of self-government and a variety of
activities that appear to be well suited to the desires o