50 cents.

[Illustration: Shoes]
* _Shoes_: Any good shoe that is made up for the purpose of ease, and
comfort in tramping will serve the boy scout's needs. The Boy Scout
shoe is convenient, inexpensive and especially designed for scouting.
Price $2.50.

[Illustration: Signal Flags]
_Signal Flags_: These can be made from muslin or bunting which may be
secured at local stores. It is recommended that each scout make his
own flags. Regulation sizes of the semaphore 18 in. by 18 in. and the
Morse or Myer flag 24 in. by 24 in. as shown in illustration.

[Illustration: Staff]
_Staff_: Ash or bamboo, two metres, (6 ft. 6-1/2 in.), in length and
about one and one-half inches in diameter; marked off on one side in
centimetres up to one-half metre, and the balance in metres. On the
other side it should be marked off in inches up to one foot and the
balance in feet. The staff should have a blunt end. Scouts should make
their own staffs whenever it is possible for them to secure the
lumber. Hoe or rake handles make excellent staffs. These can be
procured through any local dealer at a nominal sum.

The Scout Staff and Its Uses

Many boys, upon taking up the Scout Movement, are dubious about the
value of the scout staff and many friends of the movement ask "Why
does a boy scout carry a staff?"

Experience has proven it to be one of the most helpful articles of
equipment. In order to show this we are reproducing, through the
courtesy of Lieut-Gen. Sir Robert S. S. {366} Baden-Powell,
illustrations from printed matter used by the English boy scouts.
These illustrations show a number of different ways in which the staff
will prove a handy and valuable article; in fact, essential to the
Scout outfit.

[Illustration: Uses of the Staff.]

The staff is very useful for beating out brush fires and outbreaks
which occur on open heaths.

Wading a stream. Two or three Scouts grasp the Staff like this.

Both patrol tents and tepees can be made with the aid of the Staff.

An improvised stretcher of coats and staves.

A line of Scouts linked together on a night march.

When anyone falls through some ice, throw him your Staff so that he
can grasp it like this until you can get a rope and pull him out.

When climbing gates you can give yourself a push up with your Staff.

For erecting a flagstaff and forming a fence, the Staff is very
useful.

A clear view can be had by looking through a small ho