CHAPTER XII 

 CONCLUSION, 1874-1913 



IF I have brought my undertaking to a close 

 with the Mastership of Sir Edward Kennedy, 

 it is not that material is wanting for a story of 

 good sport with the Kildare hounds up to the pre- 

 sent day, but because I judged that a history of the 

 Hunt traced back to its origin ends naturally and 

 properly with the records of those Masters who have 

 passed away with their generations, and that the 

 doings of my own contemporaries in Kildare are 

 the proper theme for some future annalist of the 

 Hunt. 



It is certain that such an historian will have no 

 difficulty in taking up the story where I leave it, 

 though he will deal with new and constantly 

 changing conditions, and will have to tell of many 

 anxieties of Masters of hounds in later times which 

 never troubled their predecessors. The finance of 

 a modern Hunt with more than a hundred fox 

 coverts requiring constant attention is a different 

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