LORD CLONMELL, 1854-1857 



opened in the covert throughout the winter Paddy 

 shouted out with deHght, " Dysart agin, Dysart 

 agin." 



The field was once waiting in the lane at Kilteel, 

 when a native ran down in a state of great excite- 

 ment, shouting, " I've seen the fox." " Have you? " 

 said a prominent member of the Hunt, " what 

 colour was he? " " Buff," was the instantaneous 

 reply. 



On another occasion of waiting at Goucher's 

 several natives were seen running down the far 

 side of the covert. " What's the matter, boys? " 

 shouted the field master. One of the men shouted 

 back, " The fox has bursted." 



The late Colonel Frank Forster had a friend 

 from England who was coming from Dublin for 

 a day's hunting, and asked a famous horsebreaker 

 named Cassidy to meet him at the station and show 

 him the way. " The ditches in this country seem 

 terribly deep and wide," said the Saxon as they 

 rode along. " Yes, captain," replied Cassidy, " and 

 it's my firm belief that if them gripes was cleaned 

 out they'd find they was full of the bones of men 

 and horses that came out hunting from Dublin and 

 was never heard of again." 



At the end of one season hounds ran into their 

 fox and killed it on the far side of an unjumpable 

 brook in the Rahangan country. The master was 



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