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who, in reply to the mingled expressions of pain and 

 wonder, which burst from his disciple, mildly inquired, 

 "whether what he had then received had caused him any 

 pain V " Hurt me ! hurt me most woundily," rejoined 

 the farmer. " Then," said the clergyman, in his most 

 significant manner, " all I can tell you is, that it would 

 have been a miracle if it had not." We may presume that 

 the querist, in this case, required nothing beyond the 

 fundamental lesson he obtained, and must have been 

 ever after fully sensible of all that a word, which was 

 previously as Hebrew to him, could convey. Send your 

 second whipper-in back 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 keep- 

 ing the pack together. Follow this principle up, if you 

 would have deeds, rather than ivords, prevail through- 

 out your estabhshment. Without strict sobriety, honesty, 

 and civility, no servant should be tolerated ; w^e will 

 only say, therefore, that they are as essential in a 

 whipper-in as in all others. It is desirable that your 

 first whipper-in should not only be active and intelligent 

 in rating and turning hounds, but he should be always 

 looking forward to the day when he may himself be- 

 come a huntsman, and endeavour to qualify himself to 

 take the first fiddle when occasion may require. It is 

 a difficult task for a whipper-in to hunt the pack ac- 

 customed to his rate ; they do not willingly accept the 



