Why am I called a "Cub Scout"?
Why am I called a "Cub Scout"?
The idea came from The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. It's a book of stories about the adventures of Mowgli and the wolf cubs.
Mowgli was a young boy who lived in a village in India. One night, a tiger named Shere Khan attacked some villages around a woodsman's fire and Mowgli escaped into the jungle. Mowgli found a family of wolves living in a cave, crawled in, and soon curled up with the wolf cubs.
Raksha, the mother wolf, liked the little boy. She wanted the other wolves to let her adopt him, but Shere Khan demanded that the wolves give him Mowgli to eat. Raksha was ready to fight to keep Mowgli as her son. Then Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the wise old bear, persuaded Akela, the chief of the wolf pack, to let Mowgli become a member of the pack.
Mowgli grew up with the wolves. Akela and the other old wolves, along with Bagheera and Baloo taught Mowgli how to live in the jungle and hunt with the pack. With their help, he became wise in jungle lore.
That is why you are called a "Cub" or "Cub Scout".
Cub Scout, or simply Cub, is a term adopted from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Do Your Best nicely sums up what is expected of you everyday when you join the Cub Scouts.
In a real pack, the old wolves take very good care of the cubs. Just like puppies, wolf cubs are very playful and like to pump and run and tumble all the time. The old wolves teach them how to find food and shelter and look after themselves.
Most important, the old wolves teach the cubs how to work together. Wolves hardly ever hunt by themselves. Instead, the wolf pack hunts as a team. When they catch their food, they share it with each other.
The old wolves in our Cub pack have jungle names like Akela. They will help you learn how to look after yourself and other people too!
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The Wolf Cub's Handbook was adopted as The Boy Scouts Association's official handbook for its Wolf Cubs program. Translations were made into a number of languages. The Wolf Cub's Handbook, in various editions, remained The Boy Scouts Association's official handbook for Wolf Cubs until The Chief Scouts' Advance Party Report of 1966 recommended that less emphasis be placed on the Jungle Book theme and renamed its Wolf Cubs program as Cubs.
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