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courteous or other act of ours we do aught to weaken 

 its foundations ; but, on the contrary, by forbearance 

 and well-timed liberality, do as much as lays within 

 our power to maintain its present popularit}^ with 

 all classes. I would also remind you that there are 

 but few occasions on which it is legitimate for you 

 to render assistance to the huntsman tcnasked^ by 

 either turning hounds to him or even checking riot. 

 It is the duty of the whippers-in to do this, and you 

 had better never interfere with hounds' movements 

 unless requested to do so, or unless you, from long 

 experience and knowledge of the science, feel your- 

 self to be sufficiently discriminating to so act only 

 when your services are urgently needed and would 

 be welcomed. But to such I have not addressed 

 these remarks, so need only add, for the benefit of 

 the less experienced, that there is, perhaps, one 

 exception to this rule, and that is this : Should you 

 find 3^ourself alone with only a few couples of hounds 

 running in full cry in one direction, when the hunts- 

 man with the body of the pack is clearly hunting 

 another fox in a totall}^ different direction, and no 

 whipper-in is within hail, I then think that it is 

 your duty to stop them, and having done so to, if 

 possible, coax them after you in the wake of their 

 fellows, and before long you may, and probably will, 

 encounter a whipper-in riding back in search of the 



