The boy's camp book; a guidebook based upon the annual encampment of a boy scout troop; the second of a series of handy volumes of information and inspiration . ready cash, and all the other necessaries. Theyare in reality catapaulted on their way by a powerful or-ganization, and if left to their own resources would requiredays to do what is accomplished for them in that shorthours time. So you may easily see it would be a mistaketo try to emulate them, even in a small way, as a means totesting your resourcefulness. Be Prepared. — We all have had the experience of notbeing ready when the time
The boy's camp book; a guidebook based upon the annual encampment of a boy scout troop; the second of a series of handy volumes of information and inspiration . ready cash, and all the other necessaries. Theyare in reality catapaulted on their way by a powerful or-ganization, and if left to their own resources would requiredays to do what is accomplished for them in that shorthours time. So you may easily see it would be a mistaketo try to emulate them, even in a small way, as a means totesting your resourcefulness. Be Prepared. — We all have had the experience of notbeing ready when the time came to start on a hike. Wf 9 IO THE BOYS CAMP BOOK had to get some matches, or find some mislaid part of ourequipment, or do some tardy errand. And it was not thatwe had not had time to get ready, but that we had putthings off. There is an old saying that procrastination isthe thief of time. Nobody knows it better than the Scoutwho finds himself late at the rendezvous, with perhaps onlya note pinned on a tree telling him so to greet him. In the years I have devoted to sporting journalism I havefound it to be an unvarying rule that the men who make the. Threshing It Out most successful vacation trips are those who lay their plansmonths in advance. And I want to urge every Scout totake this tip. In fact, the purpose of this book is chiefly totell how to be ready to get the full benefit of the time that isto be spent in camp. Another very important consideration to be taken intoaccount is the fun you get out of making is a saying among campers that anticipation is halfthe pleasure of realization. It is. There was a time when, inmy ignorance, I had a good deal of fine contempt for the MAKING PLANS n fellows who seemed to make such a fuss about getting readyfor a little vacation. I imagined I was very superior in mystand that I crossed my bridges when I came to themuntil I discovered that often those same bridges were in nocondition for crossing when at last I
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