HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



performance of two or three of the pack with which 

 Lord Castlehaven used to hunt the Wilts country 

 early in the nineteenth century. They found near 

 Salisbury, and soon lost. Next morning, however, 

 the fox and one hound were found lying dead from 

 exhaustion side by side in a field near Burwash, 

 between Tunb ridge Wells and Hastings, with 

 another hound nearly dead in an adjoining field. 

 The spot where the fox and hound lay was a good 

 hundred miles away from the find. 



Returning to our subject, there was another 

 great run at a later date in Lord Naas's Mastership 

 which deserves particular mention, a run indeed 

 which would have made his term memorable apart 

 from the great run from Laragh. I find the following 

 entry in Baron de Robeck's diary under date 

 January 26, 1861. 



" Hounds met at Ballymore. Drew Bishopsland, 

 found at the waterfall Poul-a-Phouca, ran a ring to 

 ground close to the river near Russborough. Drew 

 Hollywood, found no end of foxes, chopped a 

 couple, got no run from it. Found at Baltiboys, 

 broke across the river, went away to Russborough, 

 turned at Barretstown Hill and straight into Down- 

 shire where we had a longish check, after which he 

 broke again and took us over a fine line of country 

 by Slievethoul, Collierstown, and into the village 

 of Rathcoole and, getting quite dark, I do not know 

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