Girl Scouts

The Girl Scouts are a month-long company of young women from St. Bride’s Finishing Establishment, identified in the episode as the Floras. They pick on Izod, their pet peeve, yet also form a guard around her, making their role at once comic, antagonistic, and protective within the staged contest between Glugg and Chuff.

Identity and Presentation

The Girl Scouts appear as a collective rather than as individually characterized figures. They are described as a month’s bunch of pretty maidens from St. Bride’s Finishing Establishment, and the narrative gives them the mythic, theatrical designation of Floras. Their setting within a presented entertainment—“The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies”—makes their group identity part of a performed cast, not merely a realistic social organization.

Relation to Izod

The girls pick on Izod, explicitly naming her as their pet peeve. The account does not specify the taunts or explain the cause of their hostility, so the antagonism remains a sharply drawn group action rather than a developed personal dispute. At the same time, they form a guard for Izod “with valkyrienne licence”: the collective that targets her also surrounds her, combining mockery with a conspicuous show of defense.

Place in the Mime

The Floras occupy the space around Izod while the central rivalry unfolds among Glugg, who has been jilted by her, and Chuff, who fascinates her. Their guarding gives the group a practical place in the scene’s arrangement, while their teasing adds the instability of a chorus whose allegiance cannot be reduced to simple hostility. The episode supplies no further account of their individual actions or later fate; their significance lies in this compact, double-edged function within the mime.