Herald, or Crier
(Bibaged)
The Degree of Herald may be conferred on any one who takes eight of these tests:
1. Walk one mile in twelve minutes.
2. Walk thirty miles in twelve hours.
3. Run 100 yards in fourteen seconds.
4. Run one mile in five and one-third minutes.
5. Swim 100 yards.
6. Sleep out thirty nights.
7. Send and receive a message in one of the following systems of signaling: Semaphore, Morse, or Myer, not fewer than twenty-four letters per minute.
8. Make correct smoke signals meaning “Camp is here,” “I am Lost,” “All well,” “All come to Council.”
9. Talk Sign Talk, knowing at least 200 signs.
10. Know twenty-five signs and blazes of the Indian code.
11. Read and translate into one’s own language a page or conversation from some other language.
12. Conduct a Council.
Horseman (Cowboy)
This degree is dedicated to the memory of Wahdaga (Wade Dudley of Wabanaki School, Greenwich, Conn.), who, under the careful guidance of his mother and in spite of physical handicaps, attained high excellence in the Horseman (Cowboy) Degree and found in it a world of happiness that never failed him.
The Degree of Horseman may be conferred on any one who takes ten of these tests:
1. Show that you are at home in a saddle and can ride at a walk, trot, and gallop.
2. Know how to saddle and bridle a horse correctly.
3. Catch six horses in corral or on range with twelve throws of the lasso.
