Hash Commandments

01

Honour thy Hashmaster so that thy days may be prolonged and that it may go well with thee. Would it ever come to pass that we should have a Hash Mistress, honour her as well;

02

The Hashday is sacred. Six days shalt thy labour and on the seventh days thou shalt Hash;

03

Thou shalt not throw into the wilderness the receptacles of that which sustaineth thee, for if thou beest guilty, thou must on thy knees pay homage, and thy sin be washed from thee;

04

Though shalt cast thy paper freely on the ground that those who shalt follow thee may not be led astray and that thy path through the wilderness be clear to the eye of the beholder;

05

If thou as hare beest caught by thy fellows, thou shalt be led in bondage to kneel before the Religious Advisor, thou shalt be stripped of thy outer apparel and thou shalt be drenched with the fluid of sustenance until thy fault be cleansed from thee;

06

Thou shalt not join the hash if thou'st are a poofter;

07

Thou shalt not lay a check of more than 50 meters from the last paper in close country, nor more than 150 meters apart in open country;

08

Thou shalt lay the trail in the wilderness and not in the cultivated lands flowing with rice and bearing fruits of the soil and the labour of man, for verily their wrath shalt know no bounds and their vengeance shall decent upon the innocent as upon the guilty;

09

Thou shalt not shortcut the trail except that thou be in sight of the trail or the chariots, neither shall thou short change Hash Cash, and thou finest fault with the Scribe that shalt surely take his place;

10

Thou shalt not lose the way, for those who wander in the wilderness of thy valley in the darkness shall hunger and thirst exceedingly and no man shall be safe from their wrath;

11

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy fellow Hashers, nor cry "Checking" when thou hast already found the trail, for many of thy brethren are like lost children and knows not they way;

12

Thou shall not covet thy fellow Hasher's wife (less thou beest caught), nor his beer, nor his trail, not his ladyservant, nor his ass nor anything which is thy neighbour's;

13

Thou shalt not accept conveyance on any chariot but shalt cover the ground by thy own exertions;