BARON DE ROBECK, 1862-1868 



week, and that for ^i ,850. With T.C.'s subscription 

 doubtful it will be quite impossible to get up the 

 money for three days a week; easy to get ^(^2,000 for 

 four. The country, at all events this side of it, is 

 anything but well supplied with foxes, and unless 

 the Baron turns down extensively next year, there 

 will be a positive dearth. Altogether, I think things 

 look black. 



" If possible, would you take the hounds again 

 to hunt them yourself? You will never do it 

 younger. You have tried your hand at it, and have 

 succeeded most wonderfully, and I have not the 

 slightest doubt of your killing more foxes than we 

 can spare. 



" The limited mail train would be of great help 

 to you and a steady huntsman in the kennels would 

 not spoil your hounds during the debates. I think 

 of Ballinacrow Hill during October. 



'' I know Lady Naas will never forgive me for 

 thinking of putting you on the spit again and of 

 giving you plenty of turns when on. A stranger in 

 Kildare would never do, you may depend upon 

 that, unless indeed St Lawrence. At the meeting 

 I hope to propose and carry a resolution to refer 

 the Baron's proposition to a committee consisting 

 of you, Lord Drogheda, P. Tynte, M. Aylmer, and 

 E. Mansfield. Hunting the hounds yourself would 

 be great economy." 



It is a matter of history in Kildare that whatever 

 feeling of unrest this letter represented subsided, 



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