Scouting for Boys: An Excerpt By Kirsty OUP-UK The Scouting
movement is celebrating its centenary this year. This week there
are over 40,000 Scouts from 160 countries renewing their
promises at a huge camp in Brownsea Island, Dorset, where Robert
Baden-Powell held the first camp for boys in 1907. We at OUP are
proud to publish the original 1908 edition of Baden-Powell’s
Scouting for Boys, the original blueprint for the movement. To
celebrate the Scouting Centernary, I’ve chosen an excerpt from
the text that supplies useful suggestions for games to be played
“in the club or in camp”. Our American friends may especially
enjoy Baden-Powell’s description of “Basket Ball”! NOBODY’S
AIRSHIP. – Two patrols sit on two forms facing each other, knees
about a foot from those of opposite side. A small air-balloon is
thrown in, both sides pat it with their hands to keep it up in
the air and try to send it far over the heads of their
opponents. If it falls to the ground behind that party that
party loses a point. The game