ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



huntsman, and boys get pitchforked into 

 good places as huntsmen before they know 

 how to whip-in or even to behave. When 

 I began hunting, whippers-in did not look 

 to be huntsmen before they were well past 

 thirty. Nowadays it is no uncommon thing 

 to find the huntsman the youngest of the 

 three servants. I do not mean to say that a 

 huntsman should not ride ; of course, he 

 should ride up to his hounds and see how 

 far they have carried the scent, but every- 

 one can ride if he only gets a horse good 

 enough ; the difficulty is to get a man who 

 knows when to ride, and will do so only to 

 get to his hounds, and not to win the ap- 

 probation of an ignorant field. But always 

 mount your men well, if only for economy's 

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