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when we shall have the pleasure of seeing you in this part 

 of the country, you will find plenty of game. I assure you 

 that all the people round here are doubly anxious to pre- 

 serve the game for you. Carricktriss is all right now, and 

 six foxes in it. 



Yours, &c., 



HENRY W. BRISCOE. 



APPENDIX VI. 



1843. 



At a meeting of the gentlemen of the Kilkenny and 

 Ossory Hunts (held on the 131)1 December, 1843), the 

 following arrangements were come to, and agreed upon by 

 the parties present : 



The bounds of the hunting countries being perfectly 

 understood, that no new coverts, earths, or sewers be made 

 in the neutral part without the consent of both Hunts; that 

 the earths at Ballyouskill be done away with ; that the 

 Ossory Hounds draw the coverts four times, from the first 

 of November each year until the tenth of February ; and 

 that the Kilkenny Hounds draw it four times the rest of the 

 season ; and that the earth at Pheroda be stopped at six 

 o'clock each morning. When the Ossory Hounds hunt 

 Lowhill, that Lowhill be stopped and the sewers about in 

 the same manner for the Kilkenny Hounds in the morning 

 of their hunting Pheroda or Ballyouskill ; that the earth 

 at Ballyconra, and also those of Tinnaslatty, be stopped at 

 six o'clock in the morning for the Ossory Hounds when 

 they draw Durrow woods, the same being done at Durrow 



