Some background First off, I should explain why I, a grown man living in the United States in the early 21st century decided to read a book written to British boys at the beginning of the 20th. A few times I told someone I was reading this book I got a queer look (or innuendo about what “scouting for boys” meant). So here goes. My oldest daughter had just started to be involved with Girl Scouts . She had been to a few meetings and my wife and I were discussing whether she should really be involved with one more activity. That’s probably the opposite of how things should go, but it is the sort of thing that happens more often than not in our house. Anyway, this led me to reflect on my own experiences with Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. While I didn’t last very long in Boy Scouts I realized that Cub Scouts was probably one of the most important things in my life at the time. There were a lot of good memories from the kids in my Webelos group. ...