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comfortable addition to their income. Old Sportsmen, we 

 know, will excuse our freedom in mentioning it. They do it 

 already, the hint is for the " young entry" of the season. 



But to the duties of second and third class Whippers-in. 

 As yet we have only discussed the office of Huntsman 

 Whipper-in, and glanced more at what the others ought not 

 to do, than at what they ought. We will have recourse to our 

 old friend, Beckford, on the subject. 



"When you go from the kennel," says he, " the place of the 

 first Whipper-in is before the hounds ; that of the second 

 Whipper-in should be some distance behind them ; if not, I 

 doubt if they will be suffered even to empty themselves, let 

 their necessities be ever so great, for as soon as a boy is made 

 a Whipper-in, he fancies he is to whip the hounds whenever he 

 can get at them, whether they deserve it or not." 



Another gentleman, whom we quoted before, " Skim," says, 

 " some second Whippers-in conceive that they are placed 

 behind the hounds on the road to flog up all that stop within 

 their reach, as if they had a drove of pigs before them ; but the 

 zvhip should never be applied unless for some immediate and 

 deeided fault!' 



Mr. Delme Radcliffe sajs : — 



" The schooling of a pack will much depend upon the 

 efficiency of the Whippers-in. The Huntsman is at this time 

 endeavouring to attach every hound to himself, and will 

 encourage all (particularly the timid hounds) as they are 

 driven up to him by his assistants. A sensible and intelligent 

 Whipper-in will very soon acquire some notions of the peculiar 

 tempers and dispositions of different hounds, so essential to a 

 Huntsman ; and will not require to be perpetually cautioned 

 against the indiserimitiate administration of punishment. For 

 one hound a word ma}- suffice, while others ma)' require as 

 much payment as lawyers before the}- do anything ; with these 

 it must necessarily be not only a word, but a word and a blow. 



