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attendance on the huntsman. There is another 

 ice adopted by huntsmen, which we cannot 

 approve, although by it sometimes time may be 

 _'ained in making' a cast to allow the whipper-in to 

 him, by holding half the pack in one direction 

 whilst he is trying in another. This has been 

 called a quick scientific way of doing business, but 

 in our opinion, loose and unsportsmanlike. We 

 like to see men and things in their right places, and 

 the first whipper-in is certainly out of his place 

 when he is assisting to hunt the pack in covert, or 

 dividing thorn to recover the line of a hunted fox 

 in the open. When hounds are running for a par- 

 ticular covert, and there can be no doubt as to the 

 point the fox is making, the place of the first 

 whipper-in is to get forward to the other side of 

 that, covert, there patiently to remain until the 

 is i -nter it. There he will sit quietly on his 

 awaiting the issue of events. One or two 

 foxes ni;iy perhaps be seen by him stealing away 

 W<H i.l- hedge, yet he moves not in his 

 saddle, or appears by his indifferent look to have 

 d their departure. They are gone, and a 

 nut his mouth. Presently there 

 upon wliich his eye becomes riveted, 

 fixed, as if engrossing all his 

 II.- knows it at a glance to be the 

 \in^ UK; wood-hedge, and 

 lingering look behind : still not 

 1 1 til the fox is lost to 

 fence. Then the nature of 



