_The Water Scout_ (No. 6) locates water for all purposes and carries it to camp. She acts as Fire Chief and Fire Watchman. She provides and cooks meat, vegetables and "greens." _The Handy Scout_ (No. 7) is field engineer, carpenter, bridge builder, the general maker, mender, patcher, splicer and tinker; cares for tools and trek-cart, mends the tents and clothing, and makes the furniture. _The Wood Scout_ (Patrol Mascot) (No. 8) is usually the youngest girl. She keeps fires well fed, the rations dry and the garbage burned. She carries a spade, pick axe and cutting axe. This system may be used in either a small or large camp; if the latter, corresponding numbers of each Patrol work together. TEAM WORK AND DAILY ROUTINE 6:30 A. M. Junior, Baker, Water Scout and Wood Scout report half an hour before Mess. 8:00 A. M. Tent Inspection. 8:30 A. M. Senior, Scribe, Lighter and Handy Scout report. 8:30-9:30 A. M. Main work for day accomplished by both Senior and Junior groups. Caution in Use of Knife and Axe _The Knife_ 1. Always whittle away from you. 2. Keep your fingers behind the blade. 3. Keep saying to yourself: "If this knife slips, can it cut my fingers?" 4. Learn how to sharpen your knife and keep it sharp. _The Chopping Block_ "A chopping block is the first thing needed about a camp. The axe, when not in use, should always be stuck in that particular block, where one can find it when wanted, and where it will not injure men or dogs." _The Axe_ "Do not let the axe lie outdoors on a very cold night; the frost would make it brittle, so that the steel might shiver on the first knot you struck the next morning...." The axe is a most dangerous tool, and a glancing blow may cripple one for life. 1. Do not put your foot on a stick you are chopping. 2. Always have in mind where a glancing blow may throw the axe, and keep your foot away from that danger. 3. In splitting short sticks for kindling hold them by one end flat on the chopping block and strike the blade into the other end. 4. Do not hold the stick on end in one hand while splitting it. 5. Cut or split small wood on a chopping block or log. Never let the axe strike into the ground, as a hidden stone may ruin the edge. The Camp Fire "The forest floor is always littered with old leaves, dead sticks and fallen trees. During a drought this rubbish is so tinder-dry that a spark falling in it may start a conflagration; but through a great part of the year the leaves and sticks that lie flat on the ground are too moist at least on their under side, to ignite readily. If we rake together a pile of leaves, cover it higgledy-piggledy with dead twigs and branches picked up at random, and set a match to it, the odds are that it will result in nothing but a quick blaze that soon dies down to a smudge. Yet that is the way most of us tried to make our first outdoor fires.