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if it were placed there to complete the romantic beauty 

 of that wonderful reach of the glorious river. Further 

 up the same river those who have seen a run along 

 its banks from Modeligo for the first time, will after- 

 wards have nearly as much to tell of the views they 

 have seen as of the Hunt itself, and following up the 

 stream into Duhallow^ territory we come upon charm- 

 ing river scenery in the neighbourhood of Mallow and 

 the Avondhu kennels. Nor is the valley of the Suir, 

 to the northward of those towering Knockmeildown 

 Mountains much less beautiful, and there are times 

 when its beauties burst upon one out hunting in the 

 most unexpected manner. It was either from Castle- 

 morres or Rossenara that we saw the Kilkenny 

 hounds slip away after their fox one muggy, misty day, 

 when Mr. Langrishe had solemnly prophesied that 

 there would be a scent to satisfy all of us — only, 

 perhaps, he put the matter before us with greater 

 intensity ! They got away over the hill into what is 

 known as the Wynne's Gorse country, and there was 

 certainly no doubt about the scent or the pace. The 

 line of big green fields the fox crossed was ideal, and 

 it was voted a charming country. The parti-coloured 

 patch that moved so smoothly over the surface of these 

 fields seemed to show^ up their greenery, the sound as 

 of joybells that rose from it stimulated the lucky ones 

 within hearing in their efforts to keep near it ; the 

 fences were sound and fair, and mostly bare of all 

 growth of thorn, and would have been voted small 

 in some countries. 



A charming country ! And yet, had no hounds been 

 there that is a featureless and uninteresting bit of 



