TO WHIPPERS-IN 



If one or two couples of hounds come out 

 on the line of the fox ahead of the rest, it 

 is your duty to stop them at all hazards. If 

 they get two or three fields' start in a stiff 

 country they will spoil any run, however 

 good the scent. This is especially the case 

 on a wild windy day, when the fox has 

 started down wind. On days of this sort, 

 and indeed on a good many others, it is 

 better for the huntsman to blow his hounds 

 out of covert at a place where the fox has 

 not gone away, and lay them on in a body 

 afterwards. One minute judiciously spent in 

 giving every hound a fair start will be saved 

 over and over again in the course of the run. 



When the hounds are away it is usual for 



the first whipper-in to go on with them, and 

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