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CHAPTER XX. 



Second "WhiiDper-in — Natural talents for his profession — Place of 

 second whip — His disposition — Implicit obedience to superiors — 

 Master reflected in man — The Baronet and Parvenu — Old law of 

 honour — Ink vice blood — Huntsmen in communion with gentle- 

 men — Order of march to covert side and back — Huddling 

 hounds together — Discipline too strict fails in its object — The 

 late Squire of Tedworth and his pack — The attache of the hunts- 

 man — Seeing not always believing — Drawing over foxes — 

 Pugilist Jack and the last hound — Dismounted duties. 



It has been said by some writers on foxhunting, 

 who ought to have known better, that any boy who 

 can crack a whip will suffice to fill the situation 

 of second whipper-in ; we must difl[er with such 

 authoi'ities, toto ccelo. Defend us from a boy who 

 can just crack a whip as from an urchin with a 

 penny pipe in his mouth ; no greater nuisance can 

 befall a pack of hounds than a boy who fancies he 

 must be continually flicking them with his lash, 

 which he imagines is placed in his hands for that 

 purpose. The lad who is to succeed in after-life as 

 a whipper-in or huntsman must be born with a 

 head upon his shoulders containing a full comple- 

 ment of brains, and ought to know when to strike 

 a hound and when to let him alone, without being 

 perpetually lectured about it. Ever}^ yokel taken 

 from the plough-tail cannot be converted into a 

 whipper-in, whether he will or no. Time and trou- 

 ble are thrown away upon any but acute intelligent 



