^^6 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



fally avoid the whip. Tell your whipper-in, whenever a 

 hound shall deserve the lash, to hit him first, and rate hiin 

 afterwards. 



When there are two whippers-in, one ought always to 

 be forward ; when there is only one, he, to be perfed, 

 should be a very Mungo, herdj there, and every where. 



You will find it difficult to keep your people in their 

 proper places : 1 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 1 had lost an old hound for ten days, 

 and sent all the country over to inquire after him j 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 recovered. How he sub- 

 sisted all that time, I cannot imagine. When any of 

 your hounds may be missing, you should send the whip- 

 per-in back immediately to look for them : it will teach 

 fxiin to keep them more together. 



