"Country first, self second," should be your motto. Probably, if you ask yourself truly, you will find you have at present got them just the other way about.
I hope if it is so that you will from this moment put yourself right and remain so always, Patriot first, player second. Don't be content, like the Romans were, and some people now are, to pay other people to play your football or to fight your battles for you. Do something yourself to help in keeping the flag flying.
If you take up scouting in that spirit you will be doing something; take it up, not merely because it amuses you, but because by doing so you will be fitting yourself to help your country. Then you will have in you the true spirit of patriotism, which every British boy ought to have if he is worth his salt.
[Show the Union Jack. Explain its history and composition, and which is the right way for flying it. (See Part V.)]
HOW TO FLY BRITAIN'S FLAG: Right way up.
HOW NOT TO FLY BRITAIN'S FLAG: Upside down.
WINTER'S STOB; OR, THE ELSDON MURDER.
[Note: The following story, which in the main is true, is a sample of a story that should be given by the Instructor illustrating generally the duties of a Boy Scout.]