mes and camp
work: they mean to be useful in other ways besides
what they are taught in school.

WHAT THE GUIDES DO

As a Guide your first duty is to be helpful to
other people, both in small everyday matters and
also under the worst of circumstances. You have to
imagine to yourself what sort of things might
possibly happen, and how you should deal with them
when they occur. Then you will know what to do.

I was present when a German aeroplane dropped a
bomb on to a railway station in London. There was
the usual busy scene of people seeing to their
luggage, saying good-bye and going off by train,
when with a sudden bang a whole carriage was blown
to bits, and the adjoining ones were in a blaze;
seven or eight of those active in getting into the
train were flung down--mangled and dead; while
some thirty more were smashed, broken, and
bleeding, but still alive. The suddenness of it
made it all the more horrifying. But one of the
first people I noticed as keeping her head was a
smartly dressed young lady kneeling by an injured
working-man; his thigh was smashed and bleeding
terribly; she had ripped up his trousers with her
knife, and with strips of it had bound a pad to
the wound; she found a cup somehow and filled it
with water for him from the overhead hose for
filling engines. Instead of being hysterical and
useless, she was as cool and ready to do the right
thing as if she had been in bomb-raids every day
of her life. Well, that is what any girl can do if
she only prepares herself for it.

These are things which have to be learnt in
peace-time, and because they were learnt by the
Guides beforehand, these girls were able to do
their bit so well when war came.

FIRST AID.

When you see an accident in the street or people
injured in an air raid, the sight of the torn
limbs, the blood, the broken bones, and the sound
of the groans and sobbing all make you feel sick
and horrified and anxious to get away from it--if
you're not a Girl Guide. But that is cowardice:
your business