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Title: Boy Scouts Handbook
The First Edition, 1911

Author: Boy Scouts of America

Release Date: August 1, 2009 [EBook #29558]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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preceding or following a group of illustrations may jump to
account for the pages occupied by the illustrations.

Italic are enclosed in underscores: _this is italicized_.

Some suggestions that have serious consequences are noted (e.g.,
Use lead acetate to waterproof a tent).

Numerous untitled or otherwise ambiguous illustrations are described
and annotated with (tr)--transcriber.
End Transcriber's note.

BOY SCOUTS HANDBOOK
_The First Edition, 1911_

[Illustration: Boy Scouts at camp. (tr)]

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Boy Scouts of America
Official National Out
SIGMUND EISNER

New York Salesrooms
103 Fifth Avenue
Red Bank. N. J.

[Illustration: Two Boy Scouts in full uniform. (tr)]
Each part of the uniform is stamped with the official seal of the Boy
Scouts of America.

If there is no agency for the official uniform in your city write for
samples.

SIGMUND EISNER

Manufacturer of U. S. Army and National Guard Uniform

The Best Food for The Boy Scouts is

[Illustration: Cereal bowl. (tr)]

Shredded Wheat

because it has all the muscle-building, bone-making material in the
whole wheat grain prepared in a digestible form, supplying all the
strength needed for work or play. It is ready-cooked and ready-to-eat.
It has the greatest amount of body-building nutriment in smallest
bulk. Its crispness compels thorough mastication, and the more you
chew it the better you like it. Shredded Wheat is the favorite food of
athletes. It is on the training table of nea