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But now about the second promise, namely, to do a good turn to somebody every day.

The Brownies and the Girl Scouts have a patent dodge of making themselves happy. How do you suppose they do it?

By running about and playing at scouting games? By going out into camp? By lighting fires and cooking their own grub? By tracking down animals, and getting to know all about their ways?

Yes, they do all these things, and make themselves happy; but they have a still better way than that. It is very simple. They do it by making other people happy.

That is to say, every day they do a kindness to some one. It does not matter who the person is (so long as it is not themselves), friend or stranger, man or woman, or child.

And the kindness, or “good turn,” need not be a big thing. You can generally get a chance of doing a little kindness in your own home, such as helping your mother or a servant to do some little job about the house; or you can, if away from home, help an old lady to carry her parcel, or take a little child safely across the street, or do something of that sort.

But whatever you do, you must not take any reward for doing it. If you take money for it, it is not a good turn, but just a piece of work that has been paid for.