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Pokračování textu ze strany 38 1. Walk a mile in fifteen minutes.

2. Swim fifty yards.

3. Tie five of the following standard knots: square, slip, double bow, halter, timber hitch, bowline, hard loop.

4. Know the Dipper and the Pole Star.

5. Know ten forest trees, their habits of growth, their fruit, leaf, trunk, and qualities of the wood.

6. Know fifty signs of the Indian Sign Language.

7. Have slept out thirty nights (it need not be in succession).

8. Be sunburnt to the elbows. If for any reason this is impossible at the time, the degree may be conferred and he receives his badge, but one strand of the green tassel (see below) must be left hanging from the horned shield until the stigma is removed.

9. Have served honorably at least one month as a Pappoose.

Having thus passed as Abinodji one of the green tassels is cut from his Horned Shield Badge (except as above).

LITTLE LODGE – BOY

To become a Boy the Abinodji must in addition to the attainments already listed do thirteen of the following:

1. Walk four miles in one hour.

2. Swim 100 yards.

3. Understand the use of hatchet and whittling knife.

4. Light ten successive camp-fires with ten matches and wildwood material only.

5. Know the Pole Star, the two Dippers, and at least three of the other constellations.

6. Know twenty forest trees: fruit, leaf, trunk, and qualities of the wood.

7. Know ten native wild birds and something of their habits.

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