THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. I37 



When you go from the kennel, the place of the first 

 whipper-in is before the hounds j that of the second whip- 

 per-in should be some distance behind them ; if not, I 

 doubt if they will be suffered even to empty themselves, 

 let their necessities be ever so great j for as soon as a boy is 

 made a whipper-in, he fancies that he is to whip the hounds 

 whenever he can get at them, whether they deserve it or 

 not. 



I HAVE always thought a huntsman a happy man : his 

 office is pleasing, and at the same time flattering : we pay 

 him for that which diverts him, and he is enriched by his 

 greatest pleasure*; nor is a general, after a vid:ory, more 

 proud than is a huntsman who returns with his fox's head. 



I HAVE heard that a certain duke, who allowed no vails 

 to his servants, asked his huntsman what he generally made 

 of his field-money, and gave him what he asked instead 

 of it. This went on very well for some time, till at last 

 the huntsman desired an audience. " Your grace," said 

 he " is very generous, and gives me more than ever I 

 " got from field-money in my life ; yet I come to beg <& 



* The field-mon-y which is collefted at the death of a fox. 



