rly every college and
university in this country. The records show that the winners of many
brilliant rowing and track events have been trained on Shredded Wheat.

_The BISCUIT is in little loaf form. It is baked a crisp, golden brown.
It is eaten with milk or cream, or fruit, or is delicious when eaten
as a toast with butter. TRISCUIT is the Shredded Wheat wafer---the
ideal food for the camp or the long tramp_.

_Building buster boys is bully business--that's the reason we want to
help the Boy Scout movement_.

The Shredded Wheat Company
Niagara Falls, N. Y.

[Illustration: Getting the final word before hiking.]

BOY SCOUTS of AMERICA
THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK
FOR BOYS

[Illustration: First Class Scout Emblem. (tr)]

_Published for_
THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
200 FIFTH AVENUE
NEW YORK
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1911

COPYRIGHT 1911
BY BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

BOY SCOUT CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that _________
of ___________ State of _________
Street and City or Town address

Age_____ Height_____ Weigh_____

is a member of ________ Patrol, of Troop No. _____

________________
Scout Master

SCOUT HISTORY

Qualified as Tenderfoot ________ 191_

Second Class Scout _________ 191_

First Class Scout _______ 191_

QUALIFIED FOR MERIT BADGES
SUBJECT DATE
1________________ ________________
2________________ ________________
3________________ ________________
4________________ ________________
5________________ ________________

Qualified as Life Scout ________________

Qualified as Star Scout ________________

Qualified as Eagle Scout ________________

Awarded Honor Medal ________________

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PREFACE

The Boy Scout Movement has become almost universal, and wherever
organized its leaders are glad, as we are, to acknowledge the debt we
all owe to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell, who has done so
much to make the movement of interest to boys of all nations.

The BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA is a corporation formed by a group of men
who are anxious that the boys of America should come under the
influence of this movement and be built up in all that goes to make
character and good citizenship. The affairs of the organization are
managed by a National Council, composed of some of the most prominent
men of our country, who gladly and freely give their time and money
that this purpose may be accompli