BIG LODGE
BIG LODGE – BOY
One who would join the “Big Lodge” must have attained puberty; must come in as a Boy, and as before must have:
- Slept out ten nights.
- Know the law of the Lodge.
- Take one or more of the initiations listed but in double measure if it seems best to the Council.
- Be unanimously voted into a Band.
He is now installed as a Boy and receives his badge, the Horned Shield with a large Blue Lodge on the shield, and from it two tassels of green. He is allowed now to wear the head-band of his order.
BIG LODGE – BRAVE
To become a Brave in the Big Lodge he must qualify in 18 of the following, the first 15 being obligatory:
1. Walk six miles in two hours and write a satisfactory account of it.
2. Swim fifty yards.
3. Understand and demonstrate the use of hatchet and whittling knife.
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.
