THE GENESEE VALLEY 



" Don't give tongue on a woodchuck: it will cause you humiliation. There 

 is a difference in the tails. 



Of the Hounds: 



" Keep away from them at all times and every time. Even if you con- 

 sider them worthless, the Master may be quaintly indifferent to your opinion; 

 and as the quietest horse will kick at a strange dog, and the stupidest dog 

 distrust a strange horse, keep away. 



" Stand still at a check and give them a chance to work. No hound can 

 hunt while figuring the odds of being bitten, kicked or stepped on; and if the 

 Field keep pressing them in any direction, however slowly, the benighted 

 beasts are capable of thinking there is a rational cause for it. 



" Keep away from the huntsman also, that he may be in full view and 

 the hounds see him and follow his movements and signals. 



" Don't get between him and the whippers-in on the road. There are 

 miles of it, before and behind, where your equestrianism v«ll be more appre- 

 ciated. 



Of the Rider: 



" Don't say ' 'ware horse ' to the hound, but ' 'ware hound ' to the horse. 



" It is never any excuse that you cannot hold your horse. You have no 

 more business to bring out a horse you cannot hold than you have a biter 

 or a kicker. If you cannot hold him, go home ! 



" Never follow a man closely, particularly over a jump. If he should fall 

 when alone, you might kill him while helpless. 



" Take your own line and keep it. 



" Everybody is supposed to be entitled to the panel in front of him. If 

 you don't like yours, you must not take another man's till your turn." 



A copy of the above, together with a fine map of the country, showing 

 every road, lane, covert, shoeing-forge, etc., is given to each member of 

 Major Wadsworth's Field, and the rules stated therein are enforced to the 

 letter, though it is scarcely ever necessary for the Master to speak a second 

 time, so beloved is he of his followers. 



The authors feel that they can hardly say enough of Major Wadsworth's 

 interest in the welfare of the dwellers in the " Valley." 



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