SIR EDWARD KENNEDY, 1868-1874 



I find, then, that Sir John Kennedy and his two 

 sons, Mr WiUiam and Sir Edward Kennedy, had 

 practically the same fortune in the matter of finds. 

 Leaving out fractions, they each had an average of 

 two finds a day. If we take fractions into account 

 Sir Edward was the best off. He found three foxes 

 every third day, his brother, Mr William, three 

 every tenth day of hunting, and Sir John three 

 every fifth day. 



But there is a great discrepancy in the proportion 

 of foxes killed to those found during the three 

 periods under consideration. Sir John's kills were 

 slightly better than one in three; Mr William Ken- 

 nedy a little better than one in three; while Sir 

 Edward only accounted for one in six, barely, 

 indeed, for one in seven foxes found. 



What, then, was the reason for the falling-off 

 during a period of a quarter of a century in which 

 the country had been very carefully nursed and 

 was certainly not lacking in well-kept coverts? Mr 

 William Kennedy himself left some remarks upon 

 the subject a year or two after his brother had given 

 up the hounds. In some blank pages at the end of 

 one of the volumes of his diary from which I have 

 already quoted his eulogy of Mr Wm La Touche I 

 find the following remarks. 



" Novr. i2th. 1878. The ground covered with 

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