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to the present, when I shall leave it still running^ 

 and may the day never come v/hen we will have to 

 give it a whoo-whoop ! 



Soon after Henry, third Marquis of Waterford, mar- 

 ried Hon. Louisa Stuart,'he came to reside at his an- 

 cestral mansion, Curraghmore, and wished to establish 

 a pack of foxhounds there ; but from want of foxes 

 and of hounds he was unable at the time to gain 

 his end. He, however, about the year 1840, bought 

 a pack from Captain Jacob, of Mobarnane, in the 

 county Tipperary, and took over the country he 

 hunted. He moved the establishment to Rockwell, 

 which was more central, and showed very good sport 

 for three or four seasons. His lordship was per- 

 sonally most popular in Tipperary, but some of his 

 employees were not ; the consequence was that feuds 

 sprung up and bad became worse, until at last some 

 rascals set fire to the kennels. This annoyed his 

 lordship so much, he gave up the country in disgust, 

 to a committee of county Tipperary gentlemen, 

 with fifty couple of hounds, five horses, and a 

 subscription of ^100 annually. This was about 

 the year 1848. The present Mr. Henry Briscoe, of 

 Tinvane, and the late Mr. William Fitzgerald, had 

 then each a pack of hounds. The former owned the 

 hounds he hunted, and they were well bred, and 

 hunted hares as well as foxes ; but the latter was a 

 subscription pack, and consisted of every sort, and 

 would hunt anything from an earwig to an elephant. 

 They once, after a blank day, ran riot after a buck 

 goat and ate him ! You may laugh, but it is a fact ; 

 Billy Johnson of Waterford is alive now, was out that 

 day and saw it occur. Well, Mr. Briscoe had well- 



