GIRL GUIDES

Southland Times, Issue 23308, 18 September 1937, Page 19

GIRL GUIDES

TESTS FOR BADGES Thought for the Week.—“lt is never a waste of time to make good friends.” The Truby King badge lectures start today at 2.45 p.m. at Karitane. The cooks’ badge will be tested at the Manual Training School, Don street, at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 21. Each girl may take her own recipe book and will ask her captain what material she is required to take to the test. The domestic service badge will be taken on Saturday, September 25, at 10 a.m. at Mrs Brumby’s. Remember that Mrs Brumby now lives in Bainfield road which runs off from the Waikiwi terminus.

Guiders who have not sent in annual reports please oblige by sending them in immediately to their commissioners. Will D. Hurley, company unknown, please communicate her address to Miss Manson, 266 Ettrick street, Invercargill, so that her traycloths from the Hobbies Exhibition may be returned. A Brownie pow wow has been suggested for a Saturday at the end of the January holidays or just after the resumption of school. New ideas are at present being worked out for you so that this session should be very helpful. All interested in nature craft are asked to collect during the holidays, in preparation, orange pips, cones of all kinds, and twiggy bits to form birds’ legs, small beads for eyes and small pieces of heavy bark. Mrs Walker (Mataura) is wanting now chestnuts and cases, also small cones. The cones are not the large ones from which you make owls but small hard ones which usually open on the tree. I think from the description it is the cone that comes from the Oregon pine that is wanted but I may be wrong. If any Brownie or Owl can obtain these please send a few to Mrs Walker. DOGIE SONG (1) As I was a walking one morning for pleasure, I spied a brave cowboy come riding along. His hat was throw’d back and his spurs were a jingling, and as he came riding he sang out this song. Chorus. Whoop-tee ti yi yo. Get along little dogie. It’s your misfortune and none of my own. Whoop tee ti yi you. Get along little dogie, I know that Wyoming will be your new home. (2) Early in the springtime we tail up the dogies, mark them and brand them and bob off their tails; round up the ponies load up the chuck wagon, then throw the dogies up on the trail. (3) Some boys they go up the trail for pleasure but that’s where they get it most awfully wrong. For it’s whooping and yelling and driving the dogies, oh how I wish that they’d get along. (4) Oh you’ll be beef for Uncle Sam’s Injuns, “Beef, heap beef” I hear them cry. Get along, get along, get along little dogie for you will be beef steers by and by. Courtesy.—Of courtesy it is much less than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me that the Grace of God is in courtesy.

Cut Capers. (Brownies)— We can cut the seven capers, all of us can cut them,

Brownies dancing in a ring, listen as we lightly spring, Cut capers, Cut capers.