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mind is not the only part susceptible of an impression. In 

 elucidation of this, he relates an anecdote of a " hawbuck," 

 who being monstrously bothered with the word " miracle " that 

 occurred frequently in the course of a sermon, requested an 

 explanation of it from the clergyman after the service was over. 

 The reverend gentleman gave bunch-clod a tremendous kick 

 behind, asking him at the same time if it " hurt him ? " 

 "'Hurt liter' exclaimed bunch, "you've hurt me most 

 woundily."" " Then," replied the clerg3''man, " it would have 

 been a niirack if I had not.'' To bring this to bear upon 

 hunting, Mr. Radcliffe recommends practical inconvenience for 

 properly impressing the duties of a second Whipper-in. 



" Send your second Whipper-in back," sajs he, " some miles 

 after hunting, and insist upon his return in good time, not 

 without some hounds that may be missing ; he will be for the 

 future more awake to the advantage of minding his business, 

 than by repeated lectures upon the expediency of keeping the 

 pack together. Follow this principle up, if 3'ou would have 

 deeds rather than rccirfl'j prevail throughout your establishment." 

 Our Yorkshire friend, if sent on such an errand, would have 

 replied, " seek them thysel." 



"The duty of a second \\'hipper-in,"' sa\'s Skim, "is to 

 send on a hound that hangs, to bring up tail hounds, 

 and to mind all that passes in the rear of his Huntsman ; 

 and when all are before him together, and clear of the 

 wood, to act as occasion may require." "As occasion may 

 require " is a fine comprehensive phrase, capable of containing 

 anything. 



The greatest vice hound servants, whether Huntsmen, first 

 or second Whips, can be guiltj- of, is that of drinking, and 

 unfortunately it is one to which they are peculiarly exposed. 

 Every person likes to treat them to a glass of something, so 

 what with one glass here and another glass there, they stand a 

 very fair chance of becoming, what country people call, tipplers, 



