3. Signalling. Send and receive a message either in semaphore or
Morse, sixteen letters per minute.
4. Go on foot or row a boat alone to a point seven miles away and
return again, or if conveyed by any vehicle or animal go a distance of
fifteen miles and back and write a short report on it. It is
preferable that he should take two days over it.
5. Describe or show the proper means for saving life in case of two of
the following accidents: Fire, drowning, runaway carriage, sewer gas,
ice breaking, or bandage an injured patient or revive an apparently
drowned person.
6. Cook satisfactorily two of the following dishes as may be directed:
Porridge, bacon, hunter’s stew; or skin and cook a rabbit or pluck and
cook a bird. Also “make a damper” of half a pound of flour or a
“twist” baked on a thick stick.
7. Read a map correctly and draw an intelligent rough sketch map.
Point out a compass direction without the help of a compass.
8. Use an axe for felling or trimming light timber: or as an
alternative produce an article of carpentry or joinery or metal work,
made by himself satisfactorily.