Induction Ceremony

HOWLING BOBCAT

Props: Ceremonial campfire, Indian Akela costume.

Notes:Campfire is turned on, other lights dim or off new Bobcats are out of the room with Assistant Cubmaster. They give the howl of Bobcat (a long drawn out wail).

AKELA: I hear an animal calling from beyond our pack council (listening.... it sounds like a Bobcat) Shall we answer with the call of the Wolf pack? (The pack howls like wolves. This is the Assistant Cubmaster's cue to enter and present the Bobcat candidates.) Who comes here?

ACM: Boys, hunting for the fun and companionship of Cub Scouting.

AKELA: But whom do you seek?

ACM: Akela, the great Spirit of the Cub Scout.

Akela: Are these boys wise in the ways of the Bobcat?

ACM: They are, Akela.

AKELA:Show me.

ACM: (To the new Bobcats)"Show Akela what you have already learned. Raise your arm in the Cub Scout Sign and say the Cub Scout Promise(they do).Now say the Law of the Pack (they do)

AKELA: I can now call you Cub Scouts because you have completed the requirements necessary for your participation in this great brotherhood we call Cub Scouting. Tonight you have repeated before me the Cub Scout Promise and the Law of the Pack. You have assumed a very important responsibility. You have agreed to do your best and to do your duty to God and your country, to help other people and to obey the Law of the Pack. These are things which are not always easy, but I think you will enjoy them. All that we ask is that you do your best. Do you agree to do your best? ....Good! Please join the members of the Wolf Den, who will show you by their example how to live the Law of the Pack.