CHAPTER II 



WHIPPEE-IX 



O be a whipper-in 

 requires both a good 

 eye and a good ear : 

 but the greatest quali- 

 -~ ' ' fication for one is that 



he should be free from conceit, so that he will con- 

 sider it right to obey the huntsman most impUcitly, 

 whether he thinks him right or wrong, and not 

 hesitate, but at once and instantly do what is 

 required : then he does his duty, but not till then. 

 Even if he has reason to know that what the 

 huntsman is sroing to do is wroncf, in makincr a 

 cast, etc., and that he could put him right, he 

 will gain his point sooner by more quickly turning 

 the homids to him, with this sort of feeling m 

 his own mind, •'•'Try yoiu: own way as quickly 

 as vou can, and then trv mine " ; for what is the 



