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CHAPTER II. 



THE CURRAGHMORE. 



You ask me to give you some details in connection 

 with the present " Curraghmore." I wish you had a 

 better hand to do it for you ; but as you have not, 

 I will tell you all I know of that fine hunt ; but first 

 draw your chair nearer the fire, refill the pipe, 

 have a glass of grog, and pay the same atten- 

 tion to me, for I can't talk without a drink and a 

 smoke. 



You must know that the present name of this hunt 

 has been but recently given it. In olden times the 

 hounds that hunted this part of the country were called 

 the "Waterford Hounds," the " Tinvane Hounds," 

 and, I think, there were one or two other packs. When 

 ^'' the Marquis" took the country, he bought up all 

 these hounds, hung nineteen-twentieths of them, and 

 called the pack he established " Lord Waterford's 

 Foxhounds." When his brother succeeded to the 

 title, in 1859, h^» being a clergyman, did not like 

 that cognomen, so he called them " The Curraghmore 

 Hounds;" and again the present Marquis changed 

 the name two years ago to " The Curraghmore." 



Well, so far I have accounted for the title of the 

 hunt — I will now try if I can go back to the Jind^ 

 trace it through its long runy and account for it up 



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