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and coverts be stopped at the beginning of October, 

 and opened at the end of March," &c. The corre- 

 spondence in relation to the matter will be found in 

 Appendix III., and the formal language of the day 

 may be noted. 



Robert Caunt died about the year 1840, from 

 aneurism of the heart, brought on, it is said, by a 

 bad fall, and Mr. John Power took the horn himself, 

 with Mick Butler as kennel huntsman and first whip, 

 and for many seasons showed brilliant sport. In 

 1843 M r - Power came to an arrangement with Henry 

 Marquis of Watcrford who had given up the Tip- 

 perary County, and begun to hunt the County 

 Waterford by which it was agreed that Lord Water- 

 ford should draw certain coverts in the County Kil- 

 kenny a specified number of times in the year. 

 Correspondence and details will be found in Appendix 

 VII. In the same year a meeting of representatives 

 of the Kilkenny and Ossory Hunts was held. On 

 the Kilkenny side were present the Earl of Desart, 

 Mr. Clayton Savage, Mr. Augustine Butler, Mr. James 

 K. Aylward. On the side of the Ossory Hunt were 

 Mr. Michael Drought, the Master, and Mr. Henry 

 Walker. The result of the conference was that it 

 was arranged that Ballyouskill, Phcroda, and Lowhill 

 were to be drawn by the Ossory Hounds occasionally. 

 The matter is noted in Appendix VI. 



Mr. Briscoe of Tinvane had succeeded his father 

 in the proprietorship of a pack of hounds in the 

 year 1834, and had been in the habit of drawing the 

 wild hills above Castlctovvn and Bessborough. Mr. 

 Ponsonby, afterwards the Earl of Bessborough, was 



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