HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



has been kind enough to tell me the following par- 

 ticulars of a very remarkable man. 



" Stephen Goodall was the younger brother of 

 the celebrated Will Goodall. He was brought to 

 Kilkenny about the year 1850 by the late Sir John 

 Power of Kilfane as his kennel huntsman and first 

 whip. When Sir John resigned the Mastership of 

 the Kilkenny hounds Stephen Goodall came to 

 Kildare as first whip and kennel huntsman to Mr 

 Wm Kennedy, and on his retirement Goodall 

 first became huntsman to the Kildare hounds under 

 the Mastership of Lord Clonmell. On Lord Clon- 

 mell's resignation Goodall went to Palmerstown, 

 under Lord Naas, with whom he remained for three 

 or four years, when he went to the Duhallows, but 

 again returned to the Kildares, and was huntsman 

 during part of the time of Baron de Robeck's 

 mastership. 



" Stephen Goodall was a very silent man, truth- 

 ful and honest to a degree, and was one of nature's 

 gentlemen, one of the truest, indeed, I have ever 

 met with. His motto was, ' you cannot say too little 

 or do too little with hounds.' He never hit a hound, 

 only said ' Shame ' to them when riotous. His 

 hounds were so attached to him that he dared not 

 take notice of any one hound in particular, as, if so, 

 the other hounds from jealousy would have killed 

 the favourite. 



" Goodall was disliked by the hard riding men, 

 and he was less appreciated as a huntsman than he 

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