Behind the Straw Bundles
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Model:mistral-medium-2604.Translated text
Section titled “Translated text”For many, it is an interesting matter to find out whether the trail they laid has been discovered. This can be combined with laying another kind of trail. A stick about 30 cm long is split at one end, and a handful of twisted, knotted straw is inserted into the split. Such sticks are made, for example, 50 in number, and 10 scouts each take 5 sticks, marking their name or their sign at the spot where they have cut a bit of the bark with a knife. Now the trails are laid out, each 20–30 paces apart, either by driving the sticks into the ground or by hanging them on trees at arm’s reach height. Each tries to place their stick in a spot difficult to find. The patrol leader oversees the correct laying of the trails.
The tracking begins. Each searches on their own; a found trail is their prize, but they must loudly announce to everyone where they found the given trail. The last stick (appropriately marked) reveals the hiding place where the tracked scouts have concealed themselves. Who will collect the most sticks, and from whom? Who will reach the hiding place first?
A rule can be added that no trail may be skipped, meaning that a stick cannot be taken until the previous one has been found. The sticks are therefore marked with sequential numbers.
If two patrols compete, one lays the trails while the other searches. The search time is recorded, and then the patrols switch roles.
Scan source: Polona / National Library of Poland, marked “Public domain”. View scan — PDF page 128.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Zygmunt Wyrobek, Harcerz w polu: zabawy i gry terenowe (1946)
- Printed pages: 122 / PDF 128
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 122
- Read the source text: hwp-054