Boy scouts of America : a handbook of woodcraft scouting, and life PDF
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DBOO?-^ \a«g^r £^ AVaa^JLi* aj&rtS? ^ .^^> When Placed in Ubm)Z...l^.il .'i90' Free Public Library, Dunstable, Mass, Abstracts of Rules and Reaiilations. I. The Library will be open, for the delivery and receipt of books, on Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 3.15 o'clock, and on Saturday evening from 7 to 8.30 o'clock, except on legal holidays and as stated in rule eight. 3. No book shall be kept from thelibrarymorethanthreeweeks, at any one time, under a penalty of two cents for each day's detention. 4. Not more than,one new book of a class shall be allowed in a household at the same time. No new book shall be renewed, nor transferred to another member of the same household. All books shall be considered new that have been in the librarylessthanoneyear. 5. Books that have been in the library more than one year, may he once renewed. 8. No book shall be delivered to anyone from the library, on the first five days of March in each year. 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Pamphlets and magazines are subject to the same rules as books, except that unbound magazines shall be kept one week only. 3925 (y .V'-'-y/p^it.Ta BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY # BOY SCOUTS AMERICA of A HANDBOOK OF Woodcraft, Scouting, and Life-craft By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON With which is incorporated by arrangement General Sir Robert Baden-Powell's SCOUTING FOR BOYS Published for the Boy Scouts of America 124 East a8th Street, New York City by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York y / 1910 BIRCH.BARK ROLL COPYRIGHTS istEditioninLadies' Home Journal Copyright, 1902,by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 2d Edition Copyright,1903, by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 3dEdition Copyright, 1904,by ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 4thEditionin "AssociationBoys"forJune Copyright, 1905,dy ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 5thEdition Copyright, 1906,by ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 6thEdition December,1906 7th Edition Copyright,1908,by ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 8thEdition Copyright, 1910,by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 9th Edition,CombinedwithScoutingforBoys Copyright, iqio,by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY HS33iJ THE OUINN « lOOEN CO.mCM MANWAV, N.t. CONTENTS PAGE Preface ix Introduction xi Introduction to the Early Editions i The American Flag 5 PART I—ORGANIZATION (Adapted from B. P.) Officers, etc 8 Members lo Tests II Badges and Medals 13 Badges of Merit 14 Medals 19 Uniforms 23 War Songs 25 Crests, Totems, or Patrol Signs 26 Scout Law . i 31 Summary of Instruction 34 PART II—SIGNS AND SIGNALLING Morse Code 56 Rememberable Morse 57 Wig-wag or Myer Code 58 Rememberable Myer 59 Semaphore 60 Indian Signs and Blazes 61 The Watch as a Compass 64 Old Sayings and Weather Signs 64 Outdoor Proverbs 66 .67 Measuring Distances . PART III—CAMPING Camping Trips 71 Outfit for Six 72 Tents 74 Teepees 75 Camp-grounds 75 Beds 76 Lights 77 CONTENTS vi »AGE Water tj CMoasmqpuitRooeust,inBelack Flies, etc '7J8^ Camp-fires 79 Use of Firearms 81 Camp Cookery 81 How to Make a Fire by Rubbing Sticks 84 What to Do when Lost 89 First Aid to the Injured 93 The Stars, etc 99 Finding Latitude by Stars 113 Sundial 114 Archery 115 Building a Log-cabin 122 Teepees 128 Knots 134 Tracking or Trailing 136 American Dialects 139 PART IV—THE GAMES (Copyright 1906, except those marked B. P.) Deer-hunting 140 The Bear Hunt 143 Spearing the Great Sturgeon 144 Tilting in the Water 146 Canoe Tag 147 Scouting 147 The Game of Quicksight 148 Far-sight, or Spot-the-rabbit 149 Pole-Star 149 Rabbit Hunt 150 Hostile Spy 150 The Man-hunt 151 Hunt the Coon 152 Spear-fights 152 Navajo Feather-dance 152 Feather Football I53 Cock-fighting 153 Hand-wrestling 153 Badger-pulling 153 Poison 154 Hat-ball I54 Duck-on-a-Rock I54 Roadside Cribbage ISS The War Dance 156 The Fire-flyDance 158 (B. P.) Lion Hunting 163 Plant Race 163 —— CONTENTS Vll PAGE Throwing the Assegai 164 Flag Raiding 164 Stalking and Reporting 15^ "Spider and Fly" 166 How to Teach Stalking 166 Scout Hunting 167 Relay Race 167 Stalking 167 Track Memory 167 Spot the Thief 168 "ShSompugWglienrdsowover the Border" . .' 168 169 Shop Window (Indoors) 169 Follow the Trail 169 Scout's Nose ' 170 Scout Meets Scout 170 Shoot Out 170 Kim's Game .171 Morgan's Game 172 Snow Fort 172 Siberian Man Hunt 172 ' PART V—THE HONORS Class I Red Honors Heroism 174 Riding 174 General Athletics, by /. E. Sullivan and Dr. L. H. Gulick . . . .174 Athletic Specialties 178 WLaotnegr--dsisptoarntcseaAntdhlTetriacvse,lby /. E. Sullivan and Dr. L. H. Gulick . . 117798 Mountain-climbing, by Sir Martin Conway 181 Target-shooting 182 Eyesight 183 Big-game Hunting 183 — Class H White Honors Campercraft and Scouting 185 Archery, by Will H. Thompson 187 Long Range, Clout, or Flight Shooting 188 Fishing, by Dr. Henry van Dyke 188 Bait-casting, by Lou S. Darling 189 Class HI Blue Honors Nature Study——Vertebrates, by Frank M. Chapman .... 190 Nature Study Lower forms of life, by John Burroughs 190 Geology, by Prof. Charles D. Walcott 191 Photography, by A. Radclyife Dugmore 192'
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