These scouts testify that they were in Catskill village drinking soda water----" "That's all they ever go there for," a voice shouted.
"They saw Hervey Willetts stop a runaway horse, saw him unfasten the harness of the animal when it fell, frightened and exhausted, and saw him procure and pour cool water on the animal's head.

This was never reported in camp till Tom Slade made inquiries.

Hervey Willetts had neglected to report it." "He's a punk scout," some one called.
"I have here also," Mr.Temple continued, "the testimony of Tom Slade himself that Hervey Willetts climbed a tree and in a daring manner saved a bird and its nest from the ruthless assault of an eagle.

That bird's nest, with its little occupant, hangs now in the elm tree at the corner of the pavilion." (Great applause.) "Thus Hervey Willetts won the animal first aid badge without so much as knowing it.

(Applause.) He had won twenty-one merit badges and he did not know it.