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TESTS FOR SCOUTS' BADGES

TENDERFOOT

A boy on joining the Boy Scouts must be 12 years old and pass a test in the following points:—

Before taking the Oath.

Know the scout's laws and signs, and salute.

Know the history of the Stars and Stripes.

Tie four standard knots.

He then takes the scout's oath, and is enrolled as a Tenderfoot, and is entitled to wear the buttonhole badge.

SECOND-CLASS SCOUT

Before being awarded the second-class scout's badge a Tenderfoot must pass the following tests:—

  1. Have at least one month's service as a Tenderfoot.
  2. Elementary first aid and bandaging.
  3. Signalling, elementary knowledge of semaphore, Myer or Morse alphabet.
  4. Track half a mile in twenty-five minutes; or, if in a town, describe satisfactorily the contents of one shop window out of four, observed for one minute each.
  5. Go a mile in twelve minutes at "scout's pace".
  6. Lay and light a fire, using not more than two matches.
  7. Cook ci quarter of a pound of meat and two potatoes without cooking utensils other than the regulation kit.
  8. Have at least one dollar in a savings bank.
  9. Know the sixteen principal points of the compass.

FIRST-CLASS SCOUT

Before being awarded a first-class scout's badge a scout must pass the following tests, in addition to the tests laid down for second-class scouts:—


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