CHAPTER VIII 



THE WHIPPER-IN concluded 



HIPPERS-IN, like rail- 

 way passengers, may be 

 divided into three 

 classes ; first, the Hunts- 

 man Whipper-in; 

 secondly, the regular 

 Whipper-in ; thirdly, the 

 second Whipper-in. 



The Huntsman Whip- 

 per-in is to be found 

 in the establishments of 



gentlemen hunting their own hounds, as Shirley was 

 with Mr. Assheton, Smith and afterwards with Sir 

 Richard Sutton, Jack Stevens with Mr. Osbaldeston, 

 Charles Treadwell with Mr. Smith, Hogg with Lord 

 Elcho, and so on. 



Huntsmen Whippers-in have difficult cards to play, 

 having to change from Whips to Huntsmen at as 

 short notice as the harlequin in a pantomime, and 

 the worst of it is, they are expected to change the 

 feelings of the hounds as quickly, and to draw animals 

 to them in the security of enthusiastic confidence 

 that for weeks and months, perhaps, they have been 

 chasing and driving away. In this respect they have 

 a worse chance than the Gentleman-Huntsman who 

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