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scent, will not mind them. Let your whipper- 

 in be careful how he encourages the hounds : 

 that, improperly done, may spoil your pack. 



A whipper-in will rate a hound, and then en- 

 deavour to flog him. A dog after having been 

 rated, will naturally avoid the whip. Tell your 

 whipper-in, whenever a hound deserves the lash, 

 to hit him first, and rate him afterwards. 



When there are two whippers-in, one ought 

 always to be forward. When there is only one, 

 he, to be very perfect, should be a very Mungo, 

 here, there, and every where. 



You will find it difiicult to keep your people 

 in their proper places. I have been obliged to 

 stop back myself to bring on hounds, which my 

 servants had left behind. I cannot give you a 

 greater proof how necessary it is that a whipper- 

 in should bring home all his hounds, than by 

 telling you that I have lost an old hound for 

 ten days, and sent all the country over to inquire 

 after him ; and at last, when I thought no more 

 about him, in drawing a large cover in the 

 country where he had been lost, he joined the 

 pack : he was exceedingly emaciated, and it was 

 a long time before he was recovered. How he 

 subsisted all that time I cannot imagine. When 

 any of your hounds are missing, you should 



