Hunter in Town
The Degree of Hunter in Town may be conferred
on any one who takes eight of these terts:
I. Find and sketch twenty-five blazes in town
and say where you found them. A blaze is a mark
that conveys information without using words or letters.
2. Find twenty-five totems in town. A totem is the emblem
of a man, group of men, company, or idea. It is not formed cf
words or letters and letters are not an essential part, even if
they are associated. Some trademarks are of this class.
3. Indicate the distinguishing marks of policemen, park
policemen, traffic squad, strong arm squ",d, etc.
4. Rid a house of flies for one . nth.
5. Rid a house cS rats for one 1 ath.
6. Rid a house of mice for one month.
7 . Trap or otherwise secure thirty English sparrows in a month.
8. In cities where they are ouUawed trap or otherwise secure
fifteen English starlings in a month.
9. Draw life-size, recognizable tracks of a man, woman, child,
dog, cat, and mouse.
10. Draw life-size, recognizable tracks of a rat, rabbit, gray
squirrel, sjMirrow, crow, chicken. All of these can be secured in
and about the city, especially in the large parks, and are easiest
when the snow is on the ground, but poraible in mud w with
even wet tracks on dry pavements.
11. Make and set up at some bultable place and operate for
at least a week a flytrap. (On the sjreen-cone principle.)
12. Know gypsy moth and report finding of any to state
entomologist.
13. WhenmuzzlinglawsarepassedreportalHnfractionstopolice.
14. Provide satisfactory records of the tracks of three animals,
according to the following method: cover a stiff sheet of paper
with printers' ink and so place it that the animal runs over it
and on to a fresh sheet of paper, which receives the tracks.
Indian Craftsman
The Degree of Indian Craftsman may be conferred on any one who takes ten of these tests: I. Follow a track one mile without help. Snow or tracking inms allowed.
