BOOKS ON WOODCRAFT.
HINTS TO INSTRUCTORS.
HOW TO TEACH NATURAL HISTORY.
If in London take your scouts to the Zoological Gardens and to Natural History Museum, South Kensington. Take them to certain animals on which you are prepared to lecture to them. About half a dozen animals would be quite enough for one day.
If in the country, get leave from a farmer or carter to show the boys how to put on harness, etc., and how to feed and water the horse; how he is shod, etc. How to catch hold of a runaway horse in harness. How to milk a cow.
Study habits of cows, rabbits, birds, water-voles, trout, etc., by stalking them and watching all that they do.
Take your scouts to any menagerie, and explain the animals.
CHAPTER II.
TRACKING;
or,
Noticing and Reading the meaning of small Signs.—Camp Fire Yarns on Observation—Spooring—Reading "Sign."