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but some few years back Mr. Edward Fitzgerald, 

 of Clonmult, in the County Cork, had a pack 

 of somewhat the type mentioned, and which he 

 claimed to be of the old Irish breed. He showed 

 good sport, and his pack was a killing one. At his 

 death from an accident, the pack were bought by 

 the United Hunt. Few owners, if any, obtained any 

 foxhound blood from England ; but Mr. Power seems 

 to have done so from the first, and to have gone to 

 good kennels, such as the Duke of Bedford's, Colonel 

 Thornton's, Lord Darlington's, Lord Talbot's, &c., 

 as will appear from a list of some of his pack for 

 1798, as given in Appendix I. Mr. Power, who was 

 a tall, heavy man, rode good horses, and seems to 

 have bred pretty regularly. There were three sires 

 which he used in the early part of the century, viz., 

 Faunus, Gauntlet, and Augustus. He bred several 

 times from a mare named Nancy, and from one called 

 the Prizefighter mare. He was essentially a hound- 

 man, and kept his own kennel book, with breeding 

 list of each year, and names of persons who walked 

 his puppies. He thus soon became possessed of a 

 very good pack, which he, and his son after him, con- 

 tinued to improve all their lives, and which in time 

 became famous. He gives in his kennel book a 

 receipt for cure of madness, as given in Appendix II. 

 Mr. Power's first huntsman was named Byrne. He 

 remained with him for many years, indeed, until he 

 was an old man. The whip enjoyed the sobriquet 

 of Con, but whether this was an abbreviation of his 

 Christian name or was his surname, there is no 

 record. 



