SIR JOHN KENNEDY, 1 8 14- 1 841 



ON A REMARKABLY GOOD DAY'S SPORT 



WITH THE KILDARE HOUNDS, 



JAN. 1825. 



Assist me I pray you ye Gods of the Chase, 



To sing how the Hounds of Kildare go the pace. 



They Hunt well, they run well, tho' some say 



they're slow. 

 They've speed for the best, as the horses must 



know. 

 To try Castlemartin one morning they came. 

 This Cover not yet has established its fame. 

 But 'twill soon, for it's kept from encroaching. 

 And the owner keeps diggers from poaching. 

 So for drawing it blank we cared not a rush. 

 From Ballysax hoping we'd soon view his brush. 

 But Alas, we looked blue, when we came to the 



ground, 

 For the devil a fox was there to be found, 

 No smiles could be seen, and the rain it came down. 

 As we splashed through the Country for Halvers- 



town. 

 Most thought it a case, and some said that the day 

 Was so bad, if we found it the scent would not lay, 

 But all in good time we arrived at the Cover, 

 And for the present our Chaffing was over, 

 Now, need I describe the joy in all faces? 

 For surely they're all alike in such cases. 

 When the fox was seen daringly breaking away. 

 And the hounds at his brush were making sharp play, 



141 



