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4. Tie five of the following standard knots: slip, double bow, running noose, halter, square, timber hitch, bowline, hard loop.
5. Light ten successive camp-fires with ten matches, wildwood materials only.
6. Know the Pole Star, the Two Dippers, and at least five of the other constellations.
7. Know twenty forest trees, fruit, leaf, trunk, and qualities of wood.
8. Know ten native birds and something about their habits.
9. Know five edible wild plants.
10. Must have one month’s honorable service without stain on record in Big Lodge as Wayseeker.
11. Have planted successfully four kinds of forest trees.
12. Follow a trail accurately a quarter of a mile in one hour without snow.
13. Enlist a new member in one of the Lodges.
14. Must have slept out thirty nights.
15. Keep silence unbroken for twelve hours in camp or town during daytime.
16. Must have abstained from any kind of chewing gum for three months.
17. Make and place six successful bird boxes.
18. Have cooked nine digestible meals by the camp-fire for not less than five others.
19. Know ready help for sick or hurt. (See “Book of Woodcraft”, pp. 309-318.)
20. Must have done at least one act of kindness each day for three months without a break.
21. Have taught another to swim.
22. Know two hundred signs of the Indian Sign Language.
23. Have made a beaded Head-band and have Ceremonial Costume made by self.
When at least fifteen of these tests have been satisfactorily passed the member is called out in Council, the Guide in charge tells of it in as much detail as is needed. Then taking a pair of scissors or a knife, announces:
“Now, therefore, acting for the Council, I clip from this member’s badge, the first emblem of inexperience. the tassel of green, and consign it to the flames.”
Then shaking hands with the candidate says:
“I now declare complete your installation as a Pathfinder.”
