CHAPTER XIX 



THE WHIPPER-IN 



See how Dick, like a dart, shoots ahead of the pack ! 



How he stops, turns, and twists, rates and rattles them back ! 



The laggard exciting, controlling the rash, 



He can comb down a hair with the point of his lash. 



Egerton Warburton. 



Please don't call him "the whip" — it is usual but 

 incorrect, and is, moreover, rather slangy. The 

 whip is what he carries in his hand. The hunts- 

 man when he criticises his conduct on occasion — 

 and this is by no means so infrequent an occurrence 

 as the uninitiated would think — speaks of him as 

 "my whipper-in," and we may well all follow so 

 good an example. 



Perhaps there is not so hard a worked man 

 about the kennel as the first whipper-in, unless it 

 be the second whipper-in, whom I always look 

 upon as being the scapegoat of the establishment. 

 Is a fox inadvertently lost when in the opinion of 

 the huntsman he ought to have been accounted 

 for, it is the second whipper-in who is asked 

 in rather sarcastic manner, why he did not do 

 something or other that he didn't do, and there is 

 no such good schooling for a youngster who is 

 ambitious to make his mark with hounds as being 

 a second whipper-in under a sharp huntsman who 



