CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Enjoyable duties of huntsmen Intellect and physical abilities 

 requisite First-rate horsemen Heavy versus light weights 

 Power in the saddle Honesty and sobriety Good temper 

 The whip too much used Feeding time Things hastily 

 done, badly done Even condition of the pack proof of good 

 kennel management Dainty feeders System of the Author 144 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Meal and meat General practice of feeding opposed to the 

 Author's Cravings of hunger Long abstinence injurious 

 Huntsmen in the field Fine voice of secondary importance 

 More reliance on hounds' noses than huntsman's head 

 Knowledge of country Line of foxes Enterprising genius 

 Lifting hounds Self -possession and decision An eye to 

 business Beckford's opinion of huntsman and first whipper- 

 in Qualifications of the latter Opportunities of assisting 

 huntsman Gone away ! 151 



CHAPTER XX. 



Second whipper-in Natural talents for his profession Place of 

 second whip His disposition Implicit obedience to supe- 

 riors Master reflected in man The Baronet and Parvenu 

 Old law of honour Ink vice blood Huntsmen in commu- 

 nion with gentlemen Order of march to covert side and 

 back Huddling hounds together Discipline too strict fails 

 in its object The late Squire of Ted worth and his pack 

 The attache of the huntsman Seeing not always believing 

 Drawing over foxes Pugilist Jack and the last hound 

 Dismounted duties . .160 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Second horseman Few good riders to hounds The first start 

 Different modes of crossing country Genuine sportsmen 

 Seats in the saddle Good riders and hard riders The worst 

 kind of fall Anecdote of Jack Stevens Riding down hill 

 Truth of the old triplet How to take fences " Experto 

 crede" Irish hunters Jack and his Kilkenny friend 

 Going at water The late Lord Kintore Untrodden ground 

 the safest The horse and his rider Must part company 

 sometimes . 170 



