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should be perfecting himself as an understudy- 

 to the huntsman. The whip must always re- 

 member he is to obey the huntsman implicitly, 

 whether he thinks him right or wrong. If 

 hounds divide, he may have an opinion, but he 

 must keep it to himself and stop those furthest 

 away from his superior. He must always be 

 at hand to render assistance when the hunts- 

 man requires it; his eye should be continually 

 roaming the surrounding country to view the 

 fox, and yet nothing the pack may do should 

 escape his notice. When a cast is being made, 

 or when hounds are being taken to a halloa, 

 he should always be in a position to stop them 

 in case they run heel. 



The death of nine foxes out of ten is due to 

 the whip as much as to the huntsman, and the 

 former should remember he shares in the glory 

 of the final triumph. Unless huntsman and 

 whip work together in cordial co-operation, the 

 hunt they serve will never attain satisfactory 

 results. Of course, if the huntsman has a bad 

 fall and is unable to come on, the task of 

 hunting hounds falls on the whip's shoulders, 

 but he should never attempt to handle them 



