SCOUT NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 2

SCOUT NOTES

(By

“Rama.”)

Every boy, like every young wolf, has a hearty appetite. There is juicy meat to be eaten and there are tough bones to be gnawed. But if every Cub will tackle the bone as well as the meat, and will eat up the fat with the lean, he will get good strength as well as some enjoyment out of every bite. So, the Chief Scout writes in his introduction to the Wolf Cubs’ handbook.

Young Scouts who are not quite old enough to join the Boy Scouts are called “Wolf Cubs.” Why? For this reason—a Wolf Cub is a young wolf. Scouts are called “Wolves” and young Scouts are therefore called “Wolf Cubs.”

, In the far Western prairies of Ame- • rica, the Red Indians were a nation of > scouts. Every man in the tribe was a i pretty good scout. Nobody thought anything of him if he was not. So there was great rivalry amongst the braves as to who could be the best scout. And those who proved themselves best got the nickname “Wolf.” There would be “Grey Wolf” or “Black Wolf,” “Red Wolf,” “Lean Wolf” and so on; but “Wolf" was the title of honour, meaning a really good scout. The Cub gives in to the old Wolf. The Cub does not give in to himself. “Now this is the Law of the Jungle —as old and true as the sky — “And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, But the Wolf that shall break it must die. “The jackal may follow the tiger but cub, when thy whiskers are grown, "Remember the Wolf is a hunter— Go forth and get food of thine own.” This means that the jackal is a sneaking sort of beast, who does not hunt and get his own food, but who creeps about when the tiger goes hunting, and then gets some of what is left when the tiger has finished his meal. The jackal is just like the worthless kind of man who never earns’ his own living, but sneaks about begging and living on other people’s earnings. But the wolf is very different. He hunts his own meat, like the manly fellow who earns his own living and makes his own way in the world. So you, my dear Cub, are learning to do the same. We welcome a new Tenderfoot into the brotherhood —B. Miller.