'SH0I7GH.TS UPON HUNTING. ^IJ 



The getting forward the tall hounds is a necef- 

 ^ry part of fox-hunting, in which you will find 

 ^ good whipper-in of the greatell ufe. He mufl 

 alfo get forward himfclf at times, when the huntt"- 

 man is not with the hounds ; but the fecond 

 whipper-in (who frequently is a young lad, ig- 

 norant of his bufinefs) on no account ought to 

 encourage or rate a hound, but wlien he is quite 

 certain it is right to do it ; nor is he ever to get 

 forward, fq long as a lingle hound remairui 

 behind. 



Halloo forzvard is certainly a neceffary and a 

 good halloo, but is it notufcdtoo indifcriininately? 

 it is for ever in the mouth of a whipper in. If 

 your hounds be never ufed to that halloo till after 

 § fox be found, you will fee them fly to it. At 

 other times other halloos will anfwer the purpofe 

 of getting them on as well. Halloo forward being 

 ufed as foon as the game is on foot, it feeras as if 

 another halloo were neceiTary to denote the break- 

 ing cover, jiway ! away! might anfwer that 

 purpofe. Gentlemen who are kind enough to 

 ilop back to aflifl hounds, fhould have notice giveni 

 them v;hen the hounds leave the cover. 



Mofc huntfmen, I believe, are jealous of the 

 \vhipper-in; they frequently look on him as a 

 fucceiTor, and therefore do not very readily admit 

 laim into the kennel ; yet, in my opinion, it '^ 



neceffary 



