“Do not sleep in the river-bed when the springs that used to be there have rusted away.
“Never travel by daylight if you can help it. Take the night express and be there in the morning.
“If you don’t know what it is, bring it to Mamma. She will put you on.
“Never hunt for Hens in a boys’ college, nor for Mice in a female seminary.
“A gasolene automobile overpowers everything but a Skunk.
“Don’t sit on the paint.
“If you climb telegraph poles to do the tight-rope act on the wires, don’t eat the currents.
“Take a yellow journal with you when you are going where there is no orange-coloured grass.
“If you can’t smell anything, the wind is wrong, and other people are smelling you. Turn around and it will be all right.
“Never feel ashamed of your clothes. Fox fur may not be Sealskin, but it is expensive enough to be decent.