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brack, Coolnahaw (now cut down) and all the Welsh 

 mountains from Clonassy to Kilmacoliver,as well as the 

 jolly little gorse cover of Killeen, also Snow Hill. 

 This was a great addition to his territory, and he 

 showed his appreciation of the compliment by hunt- 

 ing it two days a week, and the Waterford country one 

 day a week. Very good sport he showed ; and though 

 I consider he was not a good judge of a horse or 

 a hound, he made a capital M.F.H., and was respected 

 by all classes. Johnny Ryan hunted the hounds 

 till Lord Henry's death. He had some very good 

 whippers-In, notably, Clancy, Bolger, and poor 

 Billy' Barry. There never was a cheerier fellow than 

 Billy; but he had a hasty temper, and when vexed 

 would " cheek " any one. He was whipper before this 

 to Sir Robert Paul when he kept harriers. One day. Sir 

 Robert, who hunted his own hounds, viewed a hare 

 going away, and blowing his horn, cheered his hounds 

 on to her. Billy, at the other side of a patch of gorse, 

 viewed another away, and began cheering the hounds 

 on to her ; hearing Sir Robert in a contrary direction, 

 and thinking no other hare was on foot but the one 

 he saw, lost all patience, and sung out : '* You damned 

 fool, what are you blowing there for, don't you see she 

 Is gone this way!" Sir Robert was not the man to 

 stand this, so galloping up he knocked Billy off his 

 horse, and gave him his " walking ticket " next day. 

 Billy then came to Lord Waterford. What a rider 

 he was ! much better horseman than whip, for though 

 I never saw a man who could get his hounds out of 

 cover faster to a huntsman's horn, he would much pre- 

 fer to ride to them than to stay behind getting on tail 

 hounds. Poor Billy — he died of consumption, and 



