184- THE DIARY OF A HUNTSMAN 



understand it, which makes it desirable to have a 

 second whip in countries where appearances are 

 much considered ; though, as before stated, a second 

 whip is rarely wanted after Christmas, for when the 

 scent is so good as to run clean away from a good 

 whip, who has stopped, probably, merely to turn a 

 hound, he is not wanted until a check, and by that 

 time he is up. 



The great use of two whips is when hounds 

 divide and one lot goes away, then the first should 

 stop back and bring on the other lot as soon as he 

 can, the nearest way. The second whip should go 

 on, and keep within sight of the huntsman, to be 

 at his command to turn the hounds to him, etc. 



If hounds are running a fox through, or in a 

 small cover near a large one, the whip should clap 

 back between the two covers to prevent the fox 

 from going into the large one, and should stop there 

 till the hounds have gone on ; and, if it is early in 

 the season, what riot there is will be the side next 

 the large cover, and will probably cross into it, and 

 he will be there to stop a young hound. 



When a whipper-in is behind, bringing on hounds 

 in the chase, he should be careful not to halloo 

 them on when passing a cover, but get them on 

 quietly, by capping, if necessary, or he will move a 



