CHAPTER VIII 



THE WHIPPER-IN — CONCLUDED 





HIPPERS-IN, like railway 

 passeng'ers, may be divided 

 into three classes; first, 

 the Huntsman \\'hipper- 

 in ; secondly, the regular 

 Whipper-in ; thirdly, the 

 second Whipper-in. 



The Huntsman Whipper- 

 in is to be found in the 

 establishments of gentle- 

 men hunting their own hounds, as Shirley was with Mr. 

 Assheton Smith and afterwards with Sir Richard Sutton, Jack 

 Stevens with Mr. Osbaldeston, Charles Treadwell with Mr. 

 Smith, Hogg with Lord Elcho, and so on. 



Huntsmen Whippers-in have difficult cards to play, having 

 to change from \\'hips to Huntsmen at as short notice as the 

 harlequin in a pantomime, and the worst of it is, they are 

 expected to change the feelings of the hounds as quickly, and 

 to draw animals to them in the security of enthusiastic confi- 

 dence that for weeks and months, perhaps, the}- ha\-e been 

 chasing and driving awa}-. In this respect they have a worse 



