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Title: Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts

Author: Girl Scouts

Editor: Josephine Daskam Bacon

Release Date: April 4, 2009 [EBook #28490]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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SCOUTING for GIRLS

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THIS BOOK BELONGS TO

___________________________________________________________

MEMBER OF

_____________________________________________________ Troop

MY SCOUT RECORD

Registration Date and Place _______________________________

Passed Tenderfoot Test ____________________________________

Passed Second Class Test __________________________________

Passed ____________________________________________________

SCOUTING _for_ GIRLS

[Illustration]

[Illustration: MAGDELAINE DE VERCHERES

The First Girl Scout in the New World. From Statue erected by Lord Grey,
near the site of Fort Vercheres on the St. Lawrence.]

SCOUTING _for_ GIRLS

_OFFICIAL HANDBOOK_

OF THE

GIRL SCOUTS

[Illustration]

SIXTH REPRINT

1925

PUBLISHED BY THE GIRL SCOUTS, INC.
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
670 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y.

_Copyright 1920 by Girl Scouts, Inc._
_All Rights Reserved._

PRINTED IN NEW YORK CITY

_To_

JULIETTE LOW

THEIR FOUNDER

in grateful acknowledgment of all that
she has done for them, the American
Girl Scouts dedicate this Handbook

FOREWORD

_How Scouting Began_

_"How did Scouting come to be used by girls?" That is what I have been
asked. Well, it was this way. In the beginning I had used Scouting--that
is, wood craft, handiness, and cheery helpfulness--as a means for
training young soldiers when they first joined the army, to help