x6 4 Boy Scouts When Wo came back to his tribe, all who saw his face knew that he had found the answer, and they gathered again about the council fire to hear. As Wo ?tood up and looked into the eager faces in the circle of the fire, he remembered that the Great Spirit had given him no message and for a moment he was dumb. Then the words of the Great Spirit came to him aga/n. "When thy people and mine shall need to know my will, my spir/t shall brood over thine and the words that thou shalt speak shall be my words." Looking into the eager faces o longing and questioning, hi,.? ?pirit moved'within him and he spoke: "I went, I sought, I found the Great Spirit who dwells in the earth a? your spirits dwell in your bodies. It is from Him the spirit comes. We axe His children. He cares for us more than a mother for the child on her breaat? or the father for the son that is his pride. His love is like the air we breathe: it is about us; it is within us. "The sun is the ?gn of His brightness, the sky o/ His greatness and mother-love and father-love, and the love of man and woman are the signs o/His love. We are but His calldren; we cannot enter into the council of the Great Chief until we have been proved, but this is Hiz will, that we love one another as He loves us; that we bury forever the hatchet of h?te, th?/t no man shall take what is not his own and the strong ? help
the weak."
The chids did not wholly understand the words of Wo, but they took a hatchet and buded it by the fire ?aying? "Thus bury we hate between man and his bmther,"und they took an acorn and put it in the earth saying, "Thus plant we the love of the strong for the weak." And it became the custom of the tribe that the great council in the spring should bury the hatchet and plant the acorn. Every morning the tribe gathered to greet the rising sun, and with right hand raised and left upon the/r heaxts prayed: "Great Sp/rit hear us; guide us to-day; make our wills Thy will, m?r ways Thy way." And the tribe grew stronger and greater and wiser than all the other tribes ? but timt is another story. Tent Making Made Easy* By H. .L Holden The accompanying sketches show a few of the many different tents which may be made from any available piece of cloth or canvas. The material need not be cut, nor its usefulness for other purposes impaired, except that rings or tapes are attached at various points as indicated. For each tent the sketches show a front elevation, with a ground plan, or a side view; also a view of the material laid fiat, with dotted lines to indicate where creases or folds will occur. Models may be made from stiff paper and will prove as interesting to the kindergartner in gcometry as to the old campaigner in camping. In most of the tents a ring for suspension is fastened at the centre of. one side. This may be supported by a pole or hung by means
- Reprinted from l?eereatlon, Apr?l, x9? ?, by permissh?i??[(?
