MRS. SADIE WINCHESTER
The night before her enrolment, a very new and very inexperienced Brown Owl of 2nd Dett Pack phoned her Commissioner in Wankie. The conversation went something like this:-
B/O: My uniform is brown.
Comm: Brown ?
B/O: Yes, brown, Is that alright ?
Comm:(puzzled): What made it brown ?
B/O: I bought it.
Comm: (still puzzled): How could they have sold you a brown uniform ?
B/O: I bought the material there in Dett - the same as the Brownies - is it alright ?
Comm: Actually, it should be BLUE for the Guiders.
B/O: Oh ! ....I thought it was odd the Guide Shop sent me a blue hat ! Does this mean I can't get enrolled tomorrow ?
Comm: No, you will still get enrolled.. It won't matter for tomorrow; but you'll need a blue Ione, anyway, afterward. However, I'll try and borrow a Guider's uniform and bring it down with me.
SCENE CHANGES. 3 p.m, next day at Dett.
A blue-clad figure emerges from the shaded and explains: "My mother-in-law (they do have their uses) went out and bought this blue material this morning and frantically sewed a new uniform for me."
An astonished Comm did not have the heart to tell her till after the meeting that, although it was BLUE, it was made up in the style of a BROWNIE'S uniform
But this is the stuff that the best Brown Owls are made of.
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