TO WHIPPERS-IN 



remember that the Master is your master, 

 and not " the field " or any member of it. I 

 have actually seen a whipper-in standing in 

 a ride, in a wood, where we had a beaten 

 fox before us, and where there were sev- 

 eral fresh foxes, waiting while one of the 

 field fumbled for some time in his pockets, 

 to find a sovereign for him, I suppose. 



When a large covert, where there are 

 plenty of foxes, is being drawn up wind, 

 which should always be done if possible, 

 the whippers-in should both keep near the 

 hounds, about level with the leading ones 

 and a bit wide, one on each side of the 

 pack, and should not ride on to view a fox. 

 You will get no credit from the huntsman 



for holloaing a fox a quarter of a mile off 

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