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uphill four-mile drive before us. We were 

 accompanied by three terriers, viz., Trap, a 

 smooth fox-terrier, with a soup9on of bull in 

 him ; Blarney, a well-bred young Irishman ; 

 and Turk, as plucky and smart a wire-haired 

 fox-terrier as any man could possibly desire. 

 These three were " old hands," and well up 

 to their work, and from their exuberant 

 expressions of delight seemed to know what 

 was up. " All things have an end " is a 

 trite but true saying, and the end of that 

 four miles of hill at last showed up. To 

 give an idea of how formidable this was, 

 one of the party, who hailed from Galway, 

 pathetically inquired : " Does this hill go 

 down the other side ? " 



Tom was waiting, so we lost no time 

 in taking out the mare, and the moon 

 being then well up, our guide thought 

 we had better keep the dogs in, go down 

 to the biggest earths and stop them, then 



