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nigh killed every fox within the narrow limits of his 

 country ; and though they say he used sometimes 

 to accidentally draw a neighbouring hunt's cover on the 

 chance of a find, he was glad to dispose of his pack to 

 Lord Henry, as I have said, in 1848. To get rid of 

 the other pack and get up the country, his lordship 

 bought them from the Waterford Club, of which Mr. 

 Fitzgerald was then master. 



Lord Waterford set to work with a will to es- 

 tablish a pack and a country. With the aid of 

 Johnny Ryan (whom he brought with him from Tip- 

 perary, and whose father and grandfather hunted 

 the Grove hounds before he did so himself), and the 

 kindness of his English friends, his lordship soon had 

 together as well bred a pack as was then to be found. 

 He had more trouble stocking the country (for '48 was 

 a troublesome time, particularly with Tory landlords) ; 

 but ''the Marquis" was a favourite with all, and 

 before long he had a good show of foxes. At this time 

 his country was bounded by the limits of the county 

 Waterford, and the little bit of the '' Welsh " moun- 

 tains, hunted over by Mr. Briscoe ; but in a short time 

 Sir John Power, who had the Kilkenny country then, 

 gave his lordship that portion of the district which 

 lay within a line from Carrick-on-Suir to Innistiogue, 

 taking in Wynne's Gorse, Kilmoganny, Castlemorris, 

 and Kiltorcan — along the river Nore to New Ross, I 

 think — but I am not quite certain if Woodstock, 

 Brownstown, Annaghs, Lucy's Rock, and Glensensaw 

 were in it, I rather think they were not, and that 

 Sir John kept them to hunt when he drew the Ross 

 district. At all events. Lord Waterford, with the 

 covers I named, got Carrigtruss, Tory Hill, Knock- 



