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1. Swim fifty yards. (N.B. — This may be omitted where the doctor certifies that bathing is dangerous to the boy's health, in which case he must run a mile in eight minutes, or perform some equivalent selected by the scoutmaster.)
2. Must have two dollars at least in the savings bank.
3. Signalling. Send and receive a message either in semaphore, Myer or Morse, sixteen letters per minute.
4. Go on foot, or row a boat, alone to a point seven miles away and return again; or if conveyed by any vehicle, or animal, go to a distance of fifteen miles and back, and write a short report on it. It is preferable that he should take two days over it.
5. Describe or show the proper means for saving life in case of two of the following accidents (allotted by the examiners): Fire, drowning, runaway carriage, sewer gas, ice-breaking, or bandage an injured patient, or revive apparently drowned person.
6. Cook satisfactorily two out of the following dishes, as may be directed: Porridge, bacon, hunter's stew; or skin and cook a rabbit, or pluck and cook a bird.
- Also
- Make a "damper" or camp sinker of half a pound of flour, or a "twist" baked on a thick stick.
7. Read a map correctly, and draw an intelligible rough sketch map. Point out a compass direction without the help of a compass.
8. Use an axe for felling or trimming light timber, or as alternative, produce an article of carpentry or joinery, or metal work, made by himself satisfactorily.
9. Judge distance, size, numbers, and height within 25 per cent, error.
10. Bring a tenderfoot trained by himself in the points required for a tenderfoot. (This may in special cases be postponed, when recruits are not immediately desired, but must be carried out within three months, or the badge withdrawn.)
