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gullies, and wooded ravines — a hard country to ride, but 

 it is the making of all-round hunters and all-round riders, 

 as well. 



It is a regular hunting day for the Genesee hounds. We 

 will start early so as to call on the jNIastcr, Major Austin 

 W'adsworth, and pay a visit to the kennels, before it is time to 

 go to the "meet." We will, therefore, send our hunters slowly 

 on by the stable boy. 



"Wait a moment," INIadam is calling. "Going away with- 

 out sandwiches," she adds; "just like a man! Such thought- 

 less creatures! You need as much looking after as a lot of 

 girls." 



She has provided for us, in anticipation of a long day, a 

 stack of sandwiches, something, as Jorrock says, "For the wear 

 and tear of our teeth." IMadam saj'S, "It is to prevent our 

 breeding a famine in her pantry when we return." When thus 

 relieved of her sandwiches and a piece of her mind as to the 

 inferiority of man and the necessity of a woman to look after 

 him, we are off. Of course we must leave ]\Iadam ^\•ith the last 

 word, it is a duty incumbent u])on all good sjjortsmen. Besides 

 it is best to take her sandwiches and indulge her in the belief 

 that she is in the })rogranu)ie for the day, and to have a cut and 

 dried compliment ready for her thoughtfulness and the quahty 

 of her cookery on our return; it is wisdom. A compliment is 

 an excellent thing to have standing to a man's credit; it 

 is "a very present help in time of trouble," and man is 

 born to trouble. "Ware" trouble, Author, and get on to the 

 kennels. 



Now we are off, but in passing through Cuylerville, on our 

 way to Geneseo, the inhabitants of that jjcaceful little hamlet 

 would think we were thoughtless, if we neglected to mention 

 that it was here that the Seneca Indians had built the great 

 "Chen-na-see castle," a very large settlement of Indians, which 

 was, we believe, the capital of "The Six Nations." and from 



