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one of the last men he spoke of was myself As 

 there are now, and ever shall be, there were then hard 

 riding and good men to hounds here : Sir Richard and 

 Henry Cox, Captain Fleming, Ned Lalor, Belcher, 

 William Power of Seafield, "Parson" Gregory of 

 Fiddown, Tom Sheppard, " Old Sir John " and 

 the late Sir John Power, Johnny Power of Gurteen, 

 Bailey of Norelands, Harry Jephson, Larry Dobbyn, 

 Captain Doyle, Weekes of Ballymountain, John 

 Walshe of Fanningstown, Higginbottom of Garnarea, 

 Lord Bessborough, John Jones of Mullinabro, Tom 

 Lalor (son of Ned), and Henry Briscoe. They are all 

 dead and gone, except the four last-named, and 

 may it be long before their whoo-whoop be rung, for 

 never lived four in whose veins sporting blood ran 

 brighter. I must stop a minute to drink a toast to 

 the memory of those who are gone to ground, and to 

 the long life of those four who are still above it. 

 Fill full, and no heel-taps, the first in mute silence, and 

 the latter with a view-hollo ! Well done, you have a 

 good voice still, and it tallied many a fox away in its 

 day too, I know. 



Many of those I have named were old men when 

 Lord Waterford first hunted this country, and mostly 

 belonged to the Kilkenny hunt, but they always came 

 out when his lordship drew their side. 



The covers in those days were the same as now exist, 

 except Coolnahaw, Ballinaboola, and a few small ones 

 which were cut down, and those newly made by the 

 present Marquis : but to them I had better give a 

 separate description anon. 



They used to have famous runs then ; one 

 celebrated silver-haired fox took them, I think, four 



