SIR FENTON AYLMER AND MR A. HENRY 



tunately left unrecorded by the Secretary, so I am 

 unable to say where the kennels were built in that 

 year. 



There is no other official record of any present 

 interest to be found among the scanty minutes of 

 this early period; but it was during the opening 

 days of Sir Fenton Aylmer's second Mastership 

 that occurred that memorable run after a hill fox 

 which ended in such disaster, and is talked of in 

 Kildare to-day. The scene of this accident is well 

 known to tourists and picnic parties from Dublin, 

 the terrific gorge through which the Liffey falls at 

 Poul-a-Phouca. I am again fortunate in finding in 

 the pages of the old Sporting Magazine an account 

 of the run, and as it is the narrative of an eye-wit- 

 ness, one of the few sportsmen who were up at the 

 terrible finish, I shall quote it in full. 



It is to the gentleman who hid his identity under 

 the signature of " Remembrancer," whom I have 

 already quoted regarding John Grennon, that I am 

 again indebted, and he thus wrote to the Sporting 

 Magazine for 1832: 



It was in the last year of Sir Fenton's manage- 

 ment and of Grennon's hunting these hounds that 

 a calamity befell them which almost exterminated 

 them, and which altogether is so singular, though 

 it is not without a parallel, that I shall take the 

 liberty to narrate it. 



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