This section is from the book "The Book Of Woodcraft", by Ernest Thompson Seton. Also available from Amazon: The Book of Woodcraft.
Honors are allowed for saving a human life at risk of one's own; it is a coup or a grand coup, at the discretion of the Council.
A soldier's war medals count for a grand coup each.
(The measure of courage has not yet been discovered).
To ride a horse 1 mile in 3 minutes, clearing a 4-foot hurdle and an 8-foot water jump, counts honor; to do it in 2 minutes, clearing a 5-foot hurdle and a 12-foot water jump, high honor.
To pick up one's hat from the ground while at full gallop on a horse of not less than 13 hands, counts honor.
To do it 3 times without failure, from each side, with horse of at least 15 hands, counts high honor.
 
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