LORD NAAS, 1857-1862 



time, and it is impossible to estimate the benefit 

 the Hunt received from so long a supervision of 

 this vital part of its organization by so great an 

 expert and authority. The only criticism I have 

 ever heard of Wm La Touche's management was, 

 that as he did not ride with hounds, he gradually 

 lost sight of the importance of their music, and 

 that in consequence the pack became too mute in 

 the field. How far this is a just criticism I do not 

 know. 



Mr Robert Kennedy was another indefatigable 

 help to Lord Naas. He it was who kept a watchful 

 eye upon the earthwarner and saw that he should 

 never be off his horse, and riding from earth to 

 earth and by-earth to by-earth until July was 

 well in. As he well remarked in a letter to Lord 

 Naas now before me, '' Gentlemen will not and 

 indeed cannot do this, but nothing pleases owners 

 of coverts so much as the earthwarner coming 

 down to them to be under the orders of the gentle- 

 man in charge, thus insuring his interest in the 

 covert. My father (Sir John Kennedy) always said 

 that every litter of cubs should be seen to by some 

 one at least once in three weeks until the middle of 

 July." Baron de Robeck, too, gave most valuable 

 help in watching litters, in advising as to proper 

 payments to be made to earthstoppers for finds, 

 etc., and in helping to adjudicate on claims for 



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