A SECOND-CLASS SCOUT

Before being awarded a second-class scout’s badge, a boy must pass the following tests: 

1.  Have at least one month’s service as a tenderfoot.

2.  Elementary first aid bandaging.

3.  Signalling.  Elementary knowledge of semaphore or Morse alphabet.

4.  Track half a mile in twenty-five minutes, or if in a town describe satisfactorily the contents of one store window out of four, observed for one minute each.

5.  Go a mile in twelve minutes at “scouts’ pace.”

6.  Lay and light a fire using not more than two matches.

7.  Cook a quarter of a pound of meat and two potatoes without cooking utensils other than the regulation billy.

8.  Have at least twenty-five cents in the savings bank.

9.  Know the sixteen principal points of the compass.

FIRST-CLASS SCOUT

Before being awarded a first-class scout’s badge, a scout must pass the following test in addition to the tests laid down for a second-class scout: 

1.  Swim fifty yards. (This may be omitted where the doctor certifies that bathing is dangerous to the boy’s health).

2.  Must have at least fifty cents in the savings bank.

3.  Signalling.  Send and receive a message either in semaphore 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 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:  Fire, drowning, runaway carriage, sewer gas, ice breaking, or bandage an injured patient or revive an apparently drowned person.

6.  Cook satisfactorily two 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” of half a pound of flour or a “twist” baked on a thick stick.

7.  Read a map correctly and draw an intelligent 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 an 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 of a tenderfoot.

THE SCOUTS’ LAW

1.  A scout’s honour is to be trusted.  If a scout were to break his honour by telling a lie, or by not carrying out an order exactly, when trusted on his honour to do so, he may be directed to hand over his scouts’ badge and never to wear it again.  He may also be directed to cease to be a scout.