Adventure Awaits

Have you ever dreamed of hiking the wilderness trails that were worn down under moccasin feet hundreds of years ago?

Do you hear in your imagination the almost noiseless dip-dip of Indian canoe paddles in that stream where you fish today?

Have you stopped to think of the pioneer wagons whose great wheels cut the tracks for our present roads?

You can follow those trails, those streams and tracks! You can have your share of that adventure.

Wherever you live, you are not too far from the woods and prairie, the desert or mountain--the country where once the Indians roamed and where the great Scouts of yesterday did their part in making America.

There is some place where you can go camping and feel that you are in company with men like Rogers' Rangers, Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Pere Marquette.

This adventure awaits you in Scouting!

The first streaks of the sun slant down over the ridge and rouse you from deep sleep to greet a new day. You stretch and worm out of your bedding to dress. Outside your lean-to or tent you pause to drink in the glory of the sunrise, and fill your lungs deep with the clean morning air.

Suddenly you notice a slight movement in an upwind thicket.  Gradually, you make out a young deer grazing peacefully. Why, with all it's sharp sense of smell and hearing, has it not noticed you?

You know--because you're a Scout.

It has rained during the night, but inside your tent you have been dry and comfortable . . . how did you protect yourself?

You knew how--because you're a Scout.

Breakfast time. How do you get dry wood? How do you build your fire? How do you fry bacon and flip your flapjacks?

You know--because you're a Scout.

Evening falls, and you sit around the campfire with the other fellows. You spin yarns, sing old favorite songs, plan big things for
tomorrow. Perhaps you don't know why you feel so good all over.

"But you do--because you're a Scout."