8o Horse and Hound. 



information, he should always have a civil answer 

 for any member of the field. 



He should be sparing of his lash, never hit a 

 hound unnecessarily or in temper, and yet be con- 

 stantly on the alert for breaches of discipline upon 

 the part of the hounds. It is also his duty to see 

 there is no straggling, that no hounds are left 

 afield after the hunt, and that the field do not 

 ride over or encroach upon the hounds at work 

 or on the road. 



In the South a whip (not whipper-in) is sel- 

 dom seen in the field upon hunting days. I have 

 been master of the Iroquois Hunt for twenty years 

 and master of the National Hounds ten years, and 

 in all of their hunts have never seen a whip used 

 a single time to enforce obedience, the hounds be- 

 ing controlled solely by the voice after having 

 once been broken and trained. 



The earth stopper is practically an unknown 

 quantity in hunting in America. In England he 

 is generally an old gamekeeper, retired huntsman, 

 or crippled whipper-in, whose duty is to visit the 

 earths (dens) of foxes the night before a hunt, 

 and while the foxes are abroad to stop up their 

 entrances with bundles of boughs or twigs bound 

 together, and cover lightly with sod and earth, 

 thus preventing the occupant from going to earth 

 (holing) during a run. After the chase they are 

 unstopped. 



