CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER XYIII. 



PAGE 



Enjoyable duties of huntsmen — Intellect and physical abilities 

 requisite— First-rate horsemen— Heavy versus light weights 

 — Power in the saddle — Honesty and sobriety — Grood temper 

 —The whip too much used — Feeding time — Things hastily 

 done, badly done — Even condition of the pack proof of good 

 kennel management — Dainty feeders — System of the Author H4 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Meal and meat — General practice of feeding opposed to the 

 Author's — Cravings of hunger — Long abstinence injurious — 

 Huntsmen in the field — Fine voice of secondary importance 

 — More reliance on hounds' noses than huntsman's head — 

 Knowledge of country — Line of foxes — Enterprising genius 

 — Lifting hounds — Self-possession and decision — An eye to 

 business — Beckford's opinion of huntsman and first whipper- 

 in — Qualifications of the latter — Opportunities of assisting 

 huntsman — Gone away ! 151 



CHAPTER XX. 



Second whipper-in — Natural talents for his profession — Place of 

 second whip — His disposition — Implicit obedience to supe- 

 riors — Master reflected in man — The Baronet and Parvenu — • 

 Old law of honour— Ink vice blood — Huntsmen in commu- 

 nion with gentlemen — Order of march to covert side and 

 back — Huddling hounds together — Discipline too strict fails 

 in its object — The late Squire of Ted worth and his pack — 

 The attache of the huntsman — Seeing not always believing — 

 Drawing over foxes — Pugilist Jack and the last hound — 

 Dismounted duties 160 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Second horseman — Few good riders to hounds — The first start — 

 Difi"erent modes of crossing country — Genuine sportsmen — 

 Seats in the saddle — Good riders and hard riders — The worst 

 kind of fall — Anecdote of Jack Stevens — Riding down hill — 

 Truth of the old triplet — How to take fences — " Experto 

 crede" — Irish hunters — Jack and his Kilkenny friend — 

 Going at water — The late Lord Kintore — Untrodden ground 

 the safest — The horse and his rider — Must part company 

 sometimes 170 



