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248 Boy Scouts Self Improvement: The ambition to get on in life by all fair means. Humility: That fine quality wMch keeps a scout'from boasting, and which generally reveals a boy of courage and achievement. Honor: That great thing which is more sacred than anything else to scouts and gentlemen; the disdain of.telling or implying an untruth; absolute trustworthiness and faith- fulness. Duty to God: That greatest of all things, which keeps a boy faithful to his principles and true to Ms friends and comrades; Scout protecting child from nmd dog that gives h/m a belief in things that are high and noble, and which m?tl?es h/m prove Ms belief by doing his good turn to some one every day. This list of virtues a scout must have, and if there are any that stand out more prominently than the others, they are the following: Courage It is horrible to be a coward. It is weak to yield to fear and heroic to f?ce danger without flinching. The old Indian who had been mortally wounded faced death with i?grim ,smile on his lips and sang his own death.. son?t?z?h?'?}?[?i '? of the