The Wolf Like Grin And The Stiff Upper Lip

“One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises great self-restraint in the expression of emotion.

The phrase is most commonly heard as part of the idiom ‘keep a stiff upper lip’, and has traditionally been used to describe an attribute of British people, who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as being unemotional.

A sign of weakness is trembling of the upper lip, hence the saying keep a stiff upper lip. When a person’s upper lip begins to tremble, it is one of the first signs that the person is scared or shaken by experiencing deep emotion.” Wikipedia

There’s another thing, which if you have the sharp eyes of a Cub, you will have noticed, and that is that in each of the pictures of a Cub he is grinning … Even if you don’t feel like smiling – and sometimes you may feel like crying – remember this that

In fact Cubs always smile, and if they are in difficulty, in pain, in trouble, or in danger they

That is what our soldiers and sailors do in war, so I am sure a Cub can do it.

Once a very young boy, named Francis Palmer, belonging to the Wolf Cubs of the 18th Bristol Group, was knocked down by a motor car, his left leg broken in two places, and the side of his face badly cut about.

The boy was naturally in great pain but, to the astonishment of doctors and nurses never cried or complained. One of the doctors asked him why he was so brave, and his answer was:

“I am a Wolf Cub, and so must nor cry.”