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place. Going away again, hounds brought their fox 

 down to Shipton, and then ran at a slapping pace 

 nearly up to Ballintaggert wood, but did not enter it. 

 Making a wide sweep to the right, they ran into the 

 County Tipperary, passed by the village of Farren- 

 rory, and then straight into Kilcooly, right through 

 the demesne, and on over the bottoms towards 

 Woodsgift ; but again bearing right-handed, this stout 

 fox succeeded in reaching the earth in the Punchbowl 

 covert. The huntsman got a fall ; but Lord St. 

 Lawrence and Mr. Bryan, with a few Tipperary 

 gentlemen, saw the whole run. All the other horses 

 were beaten, and Lord St. Lawrence's horse so done 

 up that he had to leave him at a farmhouse." The 

 time this run occupied is not recorded, but it was fast 

 as a whole, and the extent of country covered could 

 scarcely have been less than fifteen miles. It is 

 needless to tell any of the present Kilkenny field 

 who have of late years enjoyed such a succession of 

 fine runs in the Kilmanagh country that the line 

 was, for the most part, over the finest portion of the 

 Kilkenny country. 



On the 26th of the same month, meeting at the 

 Barracks, Kilkenny, where the i6th Lancers were 

 then quartered, a fox was found at Kilmogar, and ran 

 down over a fine grass line nearly to Lcyrath. 

 Wheeling back, however, he ran up to Clara and over 

 the Brown Mountain on to Frencystown, and by 

 Baurnafea into Castlewarren covert, straight through 

 it, and down to the Dublin road, where, hard frost 

 having set in, hounds had to be stopped. 



The following season was also marked by many 



