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Is not usual to have very good whippers-in. 

 Personally I was fortunate in this, the friend 

 who helped me being- both keen and capable. 

 But still you may find yourself without any 

 assistance but that of your native kennel-man, 

 and he, if fairly handy with hounds, is seldom 

 much of a horseman. Another difficulty that 

 besets an Indian huntsman is that his little pack 

 is generally made up of drafts from all sorts 

 of kennels, and it is not the best of hounds that 

 are sent to India. On the othei;;. hand, when 

 hunting two days a week the working pack on 

 each day is not likely to consist of more than 

 ten couples, and generally less. The first thing 

 to do, then, is to Q^et the hounds to hunt to^jether 

 and to come to the huntsman. The closest 

 individual study of each hound and the friend- 

 ship which is sure to exist between the 

 master and his hounds will help greatly, and 

 it is not unlikely that an enthusiast who would 

 go through all the trouble necessary to keep 

 a pack will spend a good many of his spare 

 hours in the kennel. The first thing to do is 

 to get hounds to answer to their names, which 

 is best done quietly in the kennel with the 

 assistance of pieces of biscuit. Hounds in 

 India have practically two names each, for there 

 are the kennel names they bring with them, and 

 the native versions of the same, which they 



