Io6 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



The man got forward, and reached the earth just time 

 enough to see the fox go in. — If, therefore, whippers-in be 

 left at liberty to ad as they shall think right, they are 

 much less confined than the huntsman himself, who must 

 follow his hounds j and, consequently, they have greater 

 scope to exert their genius, if they have any. 



I HAD a dispute with an old sportsman, who contended, 

 that the whipper-in should always attend the huntsman, to 

 obey his orders (a stable-boy, then, would make as good 

 a whipper-in as the best) j but this is so far from being 

 the case, that he should be always on the opposite side 

 of the cover from him, or I am much mistaken in my 

 opinion : if within hearing of his halloo, he is near enough ; 

 for that is the hunting signal he is to obey. — The station 

 of the second whipper-in may be near the huntsman ; for 

 which reason, any boy that can halloo, and make a whip 

 smack, may answer the purpose. 



Your first whipper-in being able to hunt the hounds 

 occasionally, will answer another good purpose; — it will 

 keep your huntsman in order.— -They are very apt to be 

 impertinent, when they think you cannot do without 



tliem. 



