at we can do for ourselves
many things where we used to think ourselves
helpless. And before going into camp it is just as
well to learn some of the things that will be most
useful to you when you get there. And that is what
we teach in the Headquarters of the Girl Guide
Companies before they go out and take the field.
For instance, you must know how to light your own
fire; how to collect dry enough wood to make it
burn; because you will not find gas stoves out in
the wild. Then you have to learn how to find your
own water, and good water that will not make you
ill. You have not a whole cooking range or a
kitchen full of cooking pots, and so you have to
learn to cook your food in the simplest way with
the means at your hand, such as a simple cooking
pot or a roasting stick or an oven made with your
own hands out of an old tin box or something of
that kind.

NATURE STUDY

It is only while in camp that one can really learn
to study Nature in the proper way and not as you
merely do it inside the school; because here you
are face to face with Nature at all hours of the
day and night. For the first time you live under
the stars and can watch them by the hour and see
what they really look like, and realize what an
enormous expanse of almost endless space they
cover. You know from your lessons at school that
our sun warms and lights up a large number of
different worlds like ours, all circling round it
in the Heavens. And when you hold up a shilling at
arm's length and look at the sky, the shilling
covers no less than two hundred of those suns,
each with their different little worlds circling
around them. And you then begin to realize what an
enormous endless space the Heavens comprise. You
realize perhaps for the first time the enormous
work of God.

Then also in camp you are living among plants of
every kind, and you can study them in their
natural state, how they grow and what they look
like, instead of merely seeing pictures of them in
books or dried specimens of them in collections.

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