OUTDOORS CITY What's Wrong? Members should be mustered at a given place, then divided into two sections, one section proceeding along either side of the street, crossing each other at the end, and returning on the opposite sides. They may be sent either in line or irregularly, the latter for preference; each carrying pencil and notebook or paper ; and noting, during their journey, every article or thing which is out of the straight. It may be a placard fixed to a shopkeeper’s door or board, or a small swing sign, which is out of the horizontal, window-blinds crooked, goods in shop windows markedly crooked, and so on. Irregularities on vehicles in motion are not to be noted, as no opportunity would be given for the judge to verify. Upon approaching the judge, each member signs his own paper or book, and hands it over ; marks should then be given according to merit. Members must be careful to make their entries in such a guarded manner and at such times that members following them shall not notice the entry being made. Shadowing The guide picks a member to be pursued; then the rest of the group meet in a fairly quiet street in a town. The chosen member is allowed two minutes’ grace, whilst the others hide and do not watch him during that time, except two, who follow him closely. After two minutes, one of them runs back and brings the rest along, hot on the track of the pursued one. Meanwhile, the remaining shadower holds on carefully and tenaciously, pursuer and pursued being at least four or five minutes in advance of the rest. To show which way 36
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