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Klllashee, Three-Castles, Donadea, the Curragh, and 

 I believe, one or two others. He expended a great 

 deal of his own money on them, and made many of 

 them perfect. 



At the end of the season 186970, Richard Lyons 

 went to England, and he was replaced by Richard 

 Scarth, who hunted them for three years, and, like his' 

 predecessor, gave every satisfaction. He emigrated 

 to Canada ; he is there still, I believe. Rees suc- 

 ceeded Scarth, and hunted the pack for part of Sir 

 Edward's last season. An accident in the hunting- 

 field prevented him from carrying the horn for a long 

 period. 



Sir Edward's very nature was imbued with a love 

 for fox-hunting, but he has not hunted since he ceased 

 to be an M. F. H. When he was obliged to hunt the 

 pack himself, as was the case a few times owing to 

 the illness of his servants, he got on well. As a 

 judge of hounds he was quite first-rate, and he knew 

 the schoolmasters and mistresses of his pack — in fact, 

 the character of every hound he had. 



Mr. Edmund A. Mansfield was next M. K. F. H. 

 When I state that he is one of the Morristown-Lattin 

 family, I need scarcely add that he is a very general 

 favourite ; his many good qualities won golden opinions 

 for him. He possesses an amiable and quiet manner, 

 but by the way he always controlled the impetuous 

 and heterogenous assemblage which makes up the 

 Kildare "field," he proved that the suaviter in 7nodo is 

 often preferable to the/ortiter in re. During the time 

 he held the reins of manager he gave very great satis- 

 faction, and the sport was very good indeed. 



Will Freeman was made huntsman when the hounds 



