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Show Scouts, Rain and Attitude complain if their beds aren't made properly. When they are at scout camp they can wear the same socks for a week, cook gourmet meals in a tin can, and sleep like babies in wet sleeping bags on beds of rocks. The scouts didn't give up easily. They didn't come home until every last piece of clothing and bedding was soaking wet and the mud was up around their ankles. They'll be ready to go back on a minute's notice whenever we need more rain. Come to think of it, we can expect more rain the 4-H camp has taken over. By Mary Gae Kvans If any of you have been wondering won-dering what brought on the deluge of rain storms we've been having, I think I can help explain it. Usually when we need rain we send the 4-H kids to camp, that always brings rain. This year, however, the boy scouts from the Parowan Stake went into the canyon for a week's outing before 4-H camp. Now scouts are known to be courteous, cour-teous, thrifty, and trustworthy, but most of all they are prepared and able to adjust to any situation. So, when thunderstorm after thunderstorm roared down the canyon (and we parents fully expected to see a flood carrying boy scouts, sleeping bags, and soggy sandwiches), they were still sitting around camp fires in the rain. Can you imagine how hard it must be to start a fire by rubbing wet sticks together. They had water dripping off their ears and down their necks and were having a grand time. Boys go through some in-tersting in-tersting changes when they camp out. At home they change their clothes four times a day, can't butter their own bread or warm up a can of soup, and |