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Seeing this, the leading men charged the river in their 

 stride, though it was fully twenty feet from bank to bank. 

 Of course all got in, some over head and ears, others, 

 more lucky, escaped with a partial ducking. Never was 

 known more grief; fellows were for hours trying to get 

 themselves and horses out, while the hats and whips that 

 floated down the stream would stock a shop. Glascott 

 was first at it, and though as fine and cool a man to 

 hounds as ever sat in a saddle, when roused he was a 

 caution ; and the letters in the papers did rouse him ! 

 Others of us got over after him, but we carried the 

 hounds on for a mile, and so lost a fine run. The fox 

 ran to the river brink, but seeing the state it was in, 

 slipped along its bank, and ran into Clonassey, while 

 we ran the hounds on to Earl's Rath. I often won- 

 dered Lord Waterford allowed this sort of thing, for it 

 spoiled many fine runs, as it did this. But I think he 

 used to rather enjoy it, for it was terrible to see how 

 some of the young bloods rode at each other ; and 

 dire was the grief many of them came to, for no 

 fence would stop them. Ah, me ! what pluck we had 

 then ! 



Henry Briscoe's first meet, on becoming master of 

 the Curraghmore hounds, was at the Waterford Club 

 House, on Tuesday, i8th Oct., 1859. Johnny Ryan 

 hunted them for two or three seasons, then Briscoe 

 took the horn himself, and old Johnny emigrated to 

 America. Barry was parted with, I think, before the 

 season began, and Harry Hardy, from some English 

 pack, filled his place for a year as whip. He then 

 went I think to Louth, where he is still, I believe. 

 John Duke was taken about the year 1861. He came 

 from the East Sussex. Briscoe showed the most 



