TO WHIPPERS-IN 



that you cannot do so unless you get to their 

 heads. Very often one sees a huntsman blow- 

 ing his horn, an unjumpable fence between 

 him and the pack, and the whipper-in on the 

 same side of the fence as the huntsman rat- 

 ing and holloaing at the hounds. He is really 

 doing his best to drive them still farther 

 from the huntsman and increasing his diffi- 

 culties. No huntsman who knows anything 

 of his business will be angry with you for 

 not being at the heads of the hounds on all 

 occasions, as it is often a physical impossi- 

 bility for you to be so ; but he will be angry, 

 and rightly so, if, just to show you are some- 

 where near, and are doing something, you 

 get between him and the pack and rate 

 them farther away from him. Similarly, 

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