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When there are two whippers-in, one ought always 

 to be forward ; when there is only one, he, to be 

 perfect, should be a very Mungo, here, there, and 

 everywhere. 



You will find it difficult to keep your people in 

 their proper places : I have been obliged to stop back 

 myself, to bring on hounds which my servants had left 

 behind. I cannot give you a greater proof how neces- 

 sary it is that a whipper-in should bring home all his 

 hounds, than by telling you that I had lost an old , 

 hound for ten days, and sent all the country over to 

 inquire after him ; and at last, when I thought no more 

 about him, in drawing a large cover in the country 

 where he had been lost, he joined the pack : he was 

 exceedingly emaciated, and it was a long time before 

 he recovered. How he subsisted all that time, I 

 cannot imagine. When any of your hounds may be 

 missing, you should send the whipper-in back imme- 

 diately to look for them : it will teach him to keep 

 them more together. 



The getting forward the tail hounds is a necessary 

 part of fox-hunting, in which you will find a good whip- 

 per-in of the greatest use. He must also get forward 

 himself at times, when the huntsman is not with the 

 hounds ; but the second whipper-in (who frequently is 

 a young lad, ignorant of his business) on no account 

 ought to encourage or rate a hound, but when he is 

 quite certain that it is right to do it ; nor is he ever 

 to get forward, so long as a single hound remains 

 behind. 



Halloo forward, is certainly a necessary and a good 



