MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 51 



away. His place in the field \vas in the slips, called 

 " nips " at Eton in his schooldays ; and as he was 

 always placed " short nips " at school, he got the 

 appellation " Nips," which stuck to him all his life, at 

 all events amongst his intimate friends. As a genial 

 host and good raconteur, he was unsurpassed. 



Mr. Horace Rochfort of Clogrennan, in the County 

 Carlow, was a medium-weight, and a very good all- 

 round man, riding hard and playing cricket well ; 

 whilst quite late in life he took to polo, and played 

 for his county. 



Colonel Tighe of Woodstock supported the Kil- 

 kenny Hounds all his life. He was not a very 

 regular fox-hunter, but rode well, and had a very 

 good seat and hands. Like many other Kilkenny 

 hunting men, he kept the saddle till well past 

 seventy years old, and at the age of seventy-six 

 rode a good run from Woodstock into Brownstown. 



Mr. Thomas Conolly of Castletown was a Kildare 

 man, but often hunted in Kilkenny, and was a 

 bruising rider. 



Lord James Butler was a welter, riding nearly 

 eighteen stone ; but was a very hard man, and bad 

 to beat. He will be noticed later on in this Memoir. 

 On the other hand, there were three well-known 

 light-iueigJits, none of whom could have weighed 

 more than ten stone, all of whom rode to hounds 

 till very late in life, and lived to extreme old age, 

 ng during the last ten years. They were 



rf John Wade, brother-in-law of Mr. John Power, 

 *IVlf. Hanford Flood of Farmly, and Mr. John Jones 

 of Mullinabro. 



