In fact, it teaches you to Be Prepared to make a successful career for
yourself if you stick to it.
The knights in the old days were ordered by their code of rules to be
thrifty, that is, to save money as much as possible in order to keep
themselves and not to be a burden to others, and that they might have
more to give away in charity.
If they were poor, they were not to beg for money, but had to make it
by their own work.
Thus, Thrift is part of manliness because it means hard work and
self-denial, and boys are never too young to work for pay, which they
should put in the Post Office Savings Bank or some other Government
security.
CLEANLINESS
Law 10. A SCOUT IS CLEAN IN THOUGHT, WORD AND DEED.
_Decent Scouts look down upon silly youths who talk dirt, and they
do not let themselves give way to temptation, either to talk it or to
do anything dirty. A Scout is pure, and clean-minded, and manly._
When boys are getting big, they generally want to show off and to
impress other boys with their "manliness"--or at least what they think
is manliness.
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