Boy Scouts Handbook Part 17

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9. Understand the general working of steam and hydraulic winches, and have a knowledge of weather wisdom and of tides.

Signaling

[Ill.u.s.tration: Signal flags insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Signaling a scout must

1. Send and receive a message in two of the following systems of signaling: Semaph.o.r.e, Morse, or Myer, not fewer than twenty-four letters per minute.

2. Be able to give and read signals by sound.

3. Make correct smoke and fire signals.

Stalking

[Ill.u.s.tration: Leaf insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Stalking a scout must

1. Take a series of twenty photographs of wild animals or birds from life, and develop and print them.

2. Make a group of sixty species of wild flowers, ferns, or gra.s.ses, dried and mounted in a book and correctly named.

3. Make colored drawings of twenty flowers, ferns, or gra.s.ses, or twelve sketches from life of animals or birds, original sketches as well as the finished pictures to be submitted.

Surveying

[Ill.u.s.tration: Theodolite insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Surveying a scout must

1. Map correctly from the country itself the main features of half a mile of road, with 440 yards each side to a scale of two feet to the mile, and afterward draw same map from memory.

2. Be able to measure the height of a tree, telegraph pole, and church steeple, describing method adopted.

3. Measure width of a river.

4. Estimate distance apart of two objects a known distance away and unapproachable.

5. Be able to measure a gradient.

Swimming

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To obtain a merit badge for Swimming a scout must

1. Be able to swim one hundred yards.

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2. Dive properly from the surface of the water.

3. Demonstrate breast, crawl, and side stroke.

4. Swim on the back fifty feet.

Taxidermy

[Ill.u.s.tration: Talon insignia. (tr)]

To obtain a merit badge for Taxidermy a scout must

1. Have a knowledge of the game laws of the state in which he lives.

2. Preserve and mount the skin of a game bird, or animal, killed in season.

3. Mount for a rug the pelt of some fur animal.

Life Scout

[Ill.u.s.tration: Life Scout insignia. (tr)]

The life scout badge will be given to all first-cla.s.s scouts who have qualified for the following five-merit badges: first aid, athletics, life-saving, personal health, and public health.

Star Scout

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The star scout badge will be given to the first-cla.s.s scout who has qualified for ten merit badges. The ten include the list of badges under life scout.

Eagle Scout

[Ill.u.s.tration: Eagle Scout insignia. (tr)]

Any first-cla.s.s scout qualifying for twenty-one merit badges will be ent.i.tled to wear the highest scout merit badge. This is an eagle's head in silver, and represents the all-round perfect scout.

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