To get the tenderfoot badge, they had to know the scout law, how to tie
knots, and a whole lot about the flag."
"H'm, I guess I know about knots," and Rod gave his head a superior
toss. "Captain Josh taught me about them."
"But did he teach you how to help people who cut themselves, or break
their arms, or if some one falls into the water, how to bring him back
to life?"
"Why, no! Can the scouts do that?"
"Sure they can. I know of a scout who jumped off a wharf, and rescued
a little girl. When he had her out of the water he brought her back to
life, when everybody else thought that she was dead."
"Gee!" It was all that Rod could say, for he was becoming deeply
interested now.
"And they learn more than that," Whyn continued. "They talk with
flags."
"Talk with flags! I never heard of flags talking, and I don't believe
it."
"Oh, I don't mean that flags talk," and Whyn laughed outright. "The
scouts use flags for talking to one another when they are some distance
apart; it is called 'signalling.'"
"How do they do it?"
"Well, one boy will stand, say on a hill, while another is somewhere
else, and each has two little flags. They wave these and whichever way
a flag is waved it means a letter.
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