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a narrow squeak for him though. The fox from this 

 made for Killeen, but was headed away from it by the 

 keeper, old Tommy Knockmore (I must tell you some 

 yarns about this man, by-and-by) ; he ran an inside 

 line to the one he ran first, through the top of the 

 Greywood again, and to ground near Ballyhale. He 

 was not a yard in, and could easily have been 

 taken out, but Lord Bessborough, who was up at 

 the time, would not allow it. The men who rode 

 this hunt from find to finish were, Johnny Ryan on 

 "Merry Man," Billy Barry on ''Magpie," Harry 

 Sargent on a bay hard -pulling horse, George Mal- 

 comson on, I think, a thoroughbred mare called 

 "Eugenie," and poor Fred, who died the other day, 

 on *' Bad Boy." This run could not be less than from 

 twenty to twenty-five miles, and the pace was 

 sustained all the time, and no check longer than 

 five minutes was in any part of it. Henry Briscoe, till 

 his fall in the railway, Clem. Saddler, poor David 

 Malcomson, and a few others, went well also. I heard 

 Lord Bessborough say — and he is no bad judge — he 

 never saw a finer run than this one was. 



I have just recollected a wonderful run which is 

 said to have taken place (but I don't believe a word 

 of it, jw/^ may if you like), so I will tell it to you. 

 It was when Fitzgerald had the hounds, and an 

 old chap named Delahunty (a good name for a 

 huntsman) hunted them. They found a fox in Mount 

 Neil, ran him by Granny up to Clonassey, on to Tory, 

 by Knockbrack, into Snow Hill, on by Lucy's Rock, 

 through Rossbercon, on by where Weatherstown cover 

 is now, through Coolnahaw, and killed him near 

 Kiltorcan in the dark night ! Now, if this run ever 



