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He had not long to wait. Up the road he soon saw the Whipper-in, riding leisurely along. Archie B. swelled with anger at sight of the complacent and satisfactory way he rode along. He even thought he saw a smile a kind of even-up smile light his face. When opposite his hiding place, Archie B. put his call to his mouth: Prut Prut P-R-U-T it rang out. Then Prut prut!
"Now, Carpenter," said the Secretary after he had settled back in his chair and lit a cigar, handing the box afterwards to the other "You know me you and I must understand each other in all things." "'Bleeged to be that way," drawled the Whipper-in "we must wu'ck together. You know me, an' that Jud Carpenter's motto is, 'mum, an' keep movin'. That's me that's Jud Carpenter."
This is the story of how the thumb was removed for good and all. It was Mrs. Budlong herself that removed it. Carthage could never have pried it up. And strange to say the thumb came off because it grew popular. Hitherto Mrs. Budlong had never been truly popular. People were merely afraid of her. She was a whipper-in, a social bush-beater, driving the populace from cover like partridges.
It was true, and Ozzie B. stood and dug one toe into the ground, and sobbed and wiped his eyes on his shirt sleeve, and told how, in spite of his explanations and beseechings, the Whipper-in had met him down the road and thrashed him unmercifully. "Ozzie B.," said his brother, "you make me tired all over and in spots. I hate for as big a fool as you to look like me.
There are many, many fine riders in England who will not be denied in crossing a stiff country, and who at the same time are interested in the hounds and in the poetry of sport: men to whom the mysteries of scent and of woodcraft, as well as the breeding and management of hounds, are something more than a mere name: men who in after days recall with pleasure "how in glancing over the pack they have been gratified by the shining coat, the sparkling eye sure symptoms of fitness for the fight; how when thrown in to covert every hound has been hidden; how every sprig of gorse has bristled with motion; how when viewed away by the sharp-eyed whipper-in, the fox stole under the hedge; how the huntsman clapped round, and with a few toots of his horn brought them out in a body; how, without tying on the line, they 'flew to head'; how, when they got hold of it, they drove it, and with their heads up felt the scent on both sides of the fence; how with hardly a whimper they turned with him, till at the end of fifty minutes they threw up; how the patient huntsman stood still; how they made their own cast: and how when they came back on his line, their tongues doubled and they marked him for their own."
My friends on the bank kept giving their advice, and amongst the number was Tom, the whipper-in, who had refused to venture into the water; and, as a punishment for his cowardice, I requested my friends either to make him hold his tongue, or throw him in and give him a ducking.
"You are right, my Lord," said Sir , the whipper-in of the party, taking the Earl aside; "he would be an inestimable pamphleteer." "Could you get him to write us a sketch of the state of parties; luminous, eloquent?" whispered a lord of the bed-chamber. The Earl answered by a bon mot, and turned to a bust of Caracalla.
The two guns had long been ready, and, with the lanyard of the lock in his right hand, and the rim of his glazed hat in his left, he was continually saying, "shall I give her a shot now, Captain Reud?" The answer was as provokingly tautologous as a member of parliament's speech, who is in aid of the whipper-in, speaking against time. "Wait a little, Mr Burn."
Even as they passed a thought came into my head: and the face of the whipper-in seen dimly in the shadow of a lantern he joggled at his saddle-bow decided me. I slipped off my sash, looped it loosely in my hand, and so, without waiting to say farewell to my host, slid down the bank into the lane.
This excellent arrangement has the effect of keeping down the number of dogs; besides, there is the safeguard attendant upon the responsibility of ownership. The funny part of the matter is that the tax-paying dogs are not the least alarmed at the appearance of the whipper-in, but join with great show of public spirit in denouncing the collarless vagrants.
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