MR WILLIAM KENNEDY, 1847-1854 



" Too many foxes " is an entry of January 23, 

 after another record of frequent changes and long 

 but ringing runs. " Staked my poor old mare 

 Sweetpea *' is a tragic remark in February. 



Scent was bad again for some weeks in the spring 

 of 1851. " Bad scenting weather; too dry." " The 

 scent was so bad we left fox in the covert," I read. 

 There is a pleasing variety in an entry of Feb- 

 ruary 27. 



" Ran capital pace from Curragh to ground near 

 Hillsborough. I was nearly drowned in the Liffey." 



Just three weeks later I find a remark of a similar 

 flavour. 



" Ran from Levittstown to the Barrow and back 

 to Covert again, across the Barrow and killed 

 at Archdeacon Trench's. Tom Conolly nearly 

 drowned swimming the river." 



The season finished well in the first week in 

 April. 



" Ran from Ardrass to Castletown from Lyons 

 to ground in Athgoe. Ran from Kill Hill through 

 Bishopscourt by Johnstown through Mongans 

 land to ground in Punchbowl; very good thirty- 

 five minutes." Such was the hunting on the first of 

 the month. On the 3rd they 



" Ran from Dunstown to Hollywood a good 40 

 minutes. Ran from Killashee close to Eadstown to 

 ground in Downshire 45 minutes. Excellent day's 

 sport." Two days later, April 5, 



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