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THE DUTIES OF A WHIPPER-IN. 



Various and diverse are the ideas of Masters of Hounds and 

 Huntsmen as to these duties. The system mostly in vogue now I 

 abominate and detest, for which I will presently give my reasons. 

 That system is that when there are two whippers-in, on which- 

 ever side of the covert each may happen to be, when the fox 

 and hounds go away the first whipper-in is to make the best of 

 his way to hounds whilst the second is to hang about and halloa 

 and bring on any left behind. If he is in time to ' tell ' them and 

 sees all are there, of course he comes on, but if he either finds 

 that a hound or a couple or more are short, or if he has no 

 chance of ' telling ' them, he must hang about in case they should 

 be left behind. I was brought up under old Bill Long, a man 

 of singular intelligence, one who reasoned and turned over 

 carefully in his mind all things connected with hunting. He 



