And especially you don't get any merit badge for being honest, because that would be too easy.

If you could get one for that, gee-whiz, all the fellows would have them, that's sure." He said, "Ain't it good to be honest ?" I told him sure it was, but it was too easy and that all the scouts were honest anyway, even without badges.

Then I said, "If you wore that on account of being honest, that would insult all the other fellows, wouldn't it ?" He just stared at me, but didn't say anything.

"So you have to be careful," I told him, "not to be saying that you have a reward for being honest, see ?" Then I told him about there not being any badge for keeping his eyes open and finding things.

"But there's a badge for something else like that," I said, "only you can't get it yet, because you have to learn a lot of things first, and it's a lot of fun learning them, too." He said, "Can I learn them right now ?" I said, "No, but you'll learn a lot of them up in camp." Then I told them that the one that had most to do with keeping his eyes open was the stalking badge.