HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



This run was not at the time so much spoken of as 

 others, because no one was able to see it, having 

 only one horse. We found twenty four English miles 

 from Dublin, and killed nine. Of course we changed 

 foxes, I think twice. The run lasted two hours and 

 ten minutes and there was never a run in which the 

 hounds better proved their extraordinary stoutness 

 and goodness, as it was only by changing foxes that 

 their stoutness could be so decidedly proved, as no 

 one fox could have lived so long before them. No 

 wonder poor Willie La Touche was so fond of 

 them." 



Mr Kennedy in talking of this run afterwards 

 invariably concluded the story by saying, " I take 

 no credit, it was all due to Willie La Touche 's 

 hounds." 



This memorandum of Mr Kennedy's makes one 

 regret that he did not put pen to paper oftener 

 and at more length. I must, however, be grateful 

 for what he has left us, and I bring my notes of his 

 Mastership to a close by a summary of the sport 

 recorded in the two completely described seasons 

 of 1852-3 and 1853-4, t)y which it is possible to 

 compare the results of his hunting with those of 

 the career of his distinguished father. Sir John. 



It seems to me that these were practically the 

 same. Sir John on an average hunted fifty-two 

 days in the season, during which he found an 

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