LORD NAAS, 1857-1862 



man who has always been a professed admirer of 

 my father. 



" There was no country committee, the man at 

 the helm, your father, was in sole command and did 

 it all. The Kildare side had been practically given 

 up, Dunmurrey had not been visited by hounds for 

 years; Allen was first drawn in your father's time; 

 the Curragh covert made by my father was remade 

 by Mr Medlicott; Lord Valentia then made 

 Boston; Lord Drogheda Sillot Hill; your father 

 made Eagle Hill or took it up; also Barn Hill, 

 since given up; in fact the present Monday country 

 might be called the ' Mayo Country '; but so 

 might all Kildare. For your father had made quite 

 as many as fifteen, or perhaps twenty, new coverts, 

 from Mount of Ardscull, Athy, to Belgard five 

 miles from Dublin, both new coverts. I once ex- 

 postulated with him that he was making too many 

 coverts. His reply was, ' I would make every furze 

 patch in the country a fox covert if I could.' A 

 ' Parliament man ' as the country folks call a mem- 

 ber, he visited every covert during the summer 

 months, and many twice. Goodall, who was 

 Colonel Anstruther Thomson's first whip, once 

 told me that of the two, your father knew more 

 about hounds and hunting than the great Master. 



" I have hunted with all the Masters since my 

 father made Kildare and Lord Naas remade it; 

 Sir John Kennedy, Mr John La Touche, Mr 

 O'Connor Henchy, Mr Wm. Kennedy, Lord 



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