Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.