CHAPTER II 



WHIPPER-IN 



O be a whipper-in 

 requires both a good 

 eye and a good ear ; 

 but the greatest quah- 

 fication for one is that 

 he should be free from conceit, so that he 

 will consider it right to obey the huntsman most 

 implicitly, whether he thinks him right or wrong, 

 and not hesitate, but at once and instantly do 

 what is required ; then he does his duty, but not 

 till then. Even if he has reason to know that 

 what the huntsman is going to do is wrong, in 

 making a cast, etc., and that he could put him 

 right, he will gain his point sooner by more 

 quickly turning the hounds to him, with this sort 

 of feeling in his own mind, " Try your own way 

 as quickly as you can, and then try mine " ; for 

 what is the use of his thinking, when the hounds 

 are going with the huntsman ? 



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