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worit stay, and moving towards the cover, a cur dog 

 took fright, and went away like a fox, with all the 

 pack full cry after him. Yokel sat grinning. " Torn 

 them hooundes" roared the Huntsman. " Tor?i them 

 thyself" replied the youth. 



That sort of work, however, will not do for our 

 second Whip, who is supposed to belong to a regular 

 establishment. " There is nothing like experience for 

 impressing things properly on people's minds," says 

 Mr. Delme Radcliffe, "especially if the consequences 

 are disagreeable" — indeed, according to him, the 

 mind is not the only part susceptible of an impres- 

 sion. In elucidation of this, he relates an anecdote 

 of a " hawbuck," who being monstrously bothered 

 with the word "miracle" that occurred frequently in 

 the course of a sermon, requested an explanation of 

 it from the clergyman after the service was over. The 

 reverend gentleman gave bunch-clod a tremendous 

 kick behind, asking him at the same time if it "hurt 

 him?" "Hurt me/" exclaimed bunch, "you've 

 hurt me most woundily." " Then," replied the clergy- 

 man, "it would have been a miracle if I had not." 

 To bring this to bear upon hunting, Mr. Radcliffe 

 recommends practical inconvenience for properly 

 impressing the duties of a second Whipper-in. 



"Send your second Whipper-in back," says he, 

 " some miles after hunting, and insist upon his return 

 in good time, not without some hounds that may be 

 missing ; he will be for the future more awake to the 

 advantage of minding his business, than by repeated 

 lectures upon the expediency of keeping the pack 

 together. Follow this principle up, if you would have 

 deeds rather than words prevail throughout your 

 establishment." Our Yorkshire friend, if sent on 

 such an errand, would have replied, "seek them 

 thysel." 



"The duty of a second Whipper-in," says Skim, 

 " is to send on a hound that hangs, to bring up tail 



