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Samaritan anticipates them. Let the Whips be re- 

 membered in the sportsman's " budget." They have 

 no perquisites beyond their pay, and as every little 

 makes a mickle, so a trifle from each sportsman will 

 make a very comfortable addition to their income. 

 Old Sportsmen, we know, will excuse our freedom in 

 mentioning it. They do it already, the hint is for 

 the " young entry " of the season. 



But to the duties of second and third class Whip- 

 pers-in. As yet we have only discussed the office of 

 Huntsman Whipper-in, and glanced more at what the 

 others ought not to do, than at what they ought. We 

 will have recourse to our old friend, Beckford, on the 

 subject. 



"When you go from the kennel," says he, "the 

 place of the first Whipper-in is before the hounds ; 

 that of the second Whipper-in should be some dis- 

 tance behind them ; if not, I doubt if they will be 

 suffered even to empty themselves, let their necessities 

 be ever so great, for as soon as a boy is made a 

 Whipper-in, he fancies he is to whip the hounds 

 whenever he can get at them, whether they deserve 

 it or not." 



Another gentleman, w T hom we quoted before, 

 "Skim," says, "Some second Whippers-in conceive 

 that they are placed behind the hounds on the road 

 to flog up all that stop within their reach, as if they 

 had a drove of pigs before them ; but the whip should 

 never be applied unless for some immediate and decided 

 fault." 



Mr. Delme Radcliffe says : 



" The schooling of a pack will much depend upon 

 the efficiency of the Whippers-in. The Huntsman is 

 at this time endeavouring to attach every hound to 

 himself, and will encourage all (particularly the timid 

 hounds) as they are driven up to him by his assist- 

 ants. A sensible and intelligent Whipper-in will very 

 soon acquire some notions of the peculiar tempers 



