"You have to have a belt-axe first of all.

It's more important than the Handbook.
It means woodcraft and--and--and all that sort of stuff!" Well, first I just laughed at him and jollied him along, because I know how crazy he is about things like that--he'd wear every badge in the Hand.
book on his chest if he had the chance.

And he's always getting new suits and things, because his father is rich.

Pee-wee's all right only he's daffy about all the scout stuff that you see in the pictures and he always has his belt-axe dragging on his belt, even when he's home, as if he expected to chop down all the telegraph poles on Main Street.
"You have belt-axes on the brain," Westy told him.
"He's got them on the belt anyway," I said.
"You ask Mr.Ellsworth about it and see what he says," Ralph Warner said.

"He'll tell you it's better for Skinny to wait till he can earn a little money and then buy a belt-axe.