LORD NAAS, 1857-1862 



Grange and killed at Swainstown six miles from 

 Navan/ 



" My brother Dick accompanied me. Your 

 father drove in the old double-seated buggy and 

 having reached the meet, not being able to ride 

 owing to an accident and being anxious not to kill 

 the turned down cubs in the Laragh covert without 

 putting them on their feet, he drove on in advance 

 with a couple of old hounds and put them in the 

 covert. This had the effect of starting an old fox 

 who was viewed passing Laragh House where Mr 

 Nicholas J. Gannon lived, making for the canal 

 and Meath country. 



" Before the main pack and Goodall had reached 

 the covert they had taken up the scent and were in 

 hot pursuit. Many were not aware of what had 

 occurred, and got a bad start. As to the numbers 

 out, eighty to a hundred is quite the extreme num- 

 ber, including farmers and lookers-on. 



" The run to Collestown was more or less a stern 

 chase owing to the difficulty of crossing the canal. 

 There were about twenty-five to thirty at Colles- 

 town all of whom testified to Goodall having 

 allowed two fresh foxes to go away without at- 

 tempting to hunt them. The hounds eventually 

 forced their hunted fox out and away we went. 

 Three men to my knowledge got as far as the 

 Grange, but there succumbed. The field were led 

 in two divisions, by Stephen Goodall on the left, 

 and by Henry Meredith on the right. I was with the 

 former, but I think the only man who knew where 

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