Night Patrolling
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Section titled “Source text”Practise scouts to hear and see by night by posting some sentries, who must stand or walk about, armed with rifles and blank cartridges, or with whistles. Other scouts should be sent out as enemies to stalk and kill them. If a sentry hears a sound he fires, calls, or whistles. Scouts must at once halt and lie still. The umpire comes to the sentry and asks which direction the sound came from, and, if correct, the sentry wins. If the stalker can creep up within 15 yards of the sentry without being seen, he deposits some article, such as a handkerchief, on the ground at that point, and creeps away again. Then he makes a noise for the sentry to fire at, and when the umpire comes up, he can explain what he has done.
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- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys (1908)
- Printed pages: 182
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 182
- Read the automatic translation: sfb-026