CONCLUSION, 1874-1913 



Baron, de Robeck, succeeded Major Moore in 

 1897, and showed typical Kildare sport for nine 

 seasons. Time flies, and to some of the older fol- 

 lowers of the hounds Baron de Robeck 's relin- 

 quishment of the cares of the Mastership seems but 

 of yesterday. And yet our future annalist must still 

 take account of the Mastership of Mr A. F. Pollock, 

 who most ably and adequately hunted the hounds 

 for five seasons, till he was succeeded in 191 1 by our 

 present popular Master, Captain Talbot Ponsonby, 

 the representative of a family whose name takes our 

 recollection back to the earliest days of our history, 

 and whom all Kildare sportsmen wish a long and 

 prosperous continuance of the Mastership he has 

 so happily begun. 



With my task at length at an end it remains only 

 for me to echo that w^ish and to thank very heartily 

 those numerous friends whose kind assistance in 

 gathering together the memories of sport in the 

 county has alone enabled me to bring it to a 

 conclusion. 



THE MEN OF KILDARE 



When autumn to gold turns the leaves on the trees 

 And the Swallows depart for their flight o'er the 



seas. 

 While the river goes swollen the ocean to meet 

 With a whisper as soft as a lullaby sweet, 



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