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4 BoY Scouts guarding the men, women, and children in the stockade, was also a scout. Should he fall asleep, or lose control of his faculties, or fail on his watch, then the lives of the men, women, and children paid the fodeit, and the scout lost his honor. But there'have'been other kinds of scouts besides war scouts and frontier scouts. They have been the men of all ages who have gone out on new and strange adventures, and through their work have benefited the people of the earth. Thus, Columbus discovered America, the Pilgrim Fathers founded New Er/gland, the early English settlers colonized Jamestown, and the Dutch built up New York. In the same way the hardy Scotch- Irish pushed west and made a new home for the American people beyond the Alleghanies and the Rockies. These peace scouts had to be as well prepared as any war scouts. They had to know scoutcraft. They ? to know how to live in the ?voods, and be able to find their way anywhere, without other chart or compass than the sun and stars, besides being able to interpret the meaning of the slightest signs of the forest and the foot tracks of animals and men. They had to know how to live so as to keep healthy and strong, to face any danger that came their way, and to help one another. These scouts of old were accustomed to take chances wi.'th death and they did not hesitate to give up their lives in helping their comrades or country. In fa.et, they left every- thing behind them, comfort and peace, in order to push forward into the wilderness beyond. And much of this they did be- eatme they felt it to be their duty. These little-known scouts could be multiplied indefinitely by going back into the past ages and reading the histories and stories of the knights of King Arthur, of the Crusaders, and of t?e great explorers and navigators of the worM. Wherever there have been heroes, there have been scouts, 'and to be a scout means to be prepared to do the fight thin E at the right moment, no matter what the consequences h;ay for aevement in big ngs the prepag of one's self for doing the big things m by going into training and doing the little things well. It was this characteristic of Living- stone, the great explorer, that made him what he wasp and that has marked the career of all good scouts. To be a good scout one should know something about the woods and the animals that inhabit theme,?,t?dby?5ot?l?-e for one's self when camping.