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Troop One of the Labrador

CHAPTER III
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We'll have a hunt when we gets home.

They always feeds in that mesh when they're bidin' about the Bay." Presently Andy exclaimed: "I can tie un all! I can tie every knot in the book!" "I can tie un too!" said Jamie.
"Yes! Yes! There are the scout tests!" broke in Doctor Joe.

"Suppose we all tie the knots and pass the tests." Andy and Jamie tied them easily enough, and then Doctor Joe tied them himself to keep pace with the boys, and Andy relieved David at the tiller that he might try his hand at them; David not only tied all the knots illustrated in the handbook, but for good measure added a bowline on a bight, a double carrick bend, a marlin hitch and a halliard hitch.
"That's wonderful easy to do," David declared as he laid the rope down.

"'Tis strange they calls that a test, 'tis so easy done." "Easy for us," admitted Doctor Joe, "but for boys who have never had much to do with boats or ropes it's a hard test, and an important one.
You chaps knew how to tie them, so in doing it you haven't learned anything new.

Let us make up our minds as scouts to learn something new every day--something we never knew before, no matter how small or unimportant it may seem.


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