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wonderful sport, I may say, all the time of his master- 

 ship, but notably in the season of 1861-2, in which he 

 hunted sixty-eight days, killed forty-one foxes, and ran 

 sixty-two to ground, had t'Neniy ^rst-class runs, of from 

 thirty minutes and upwards, and twice that number of 

 short, brilliant spins of ten to twenty minutes. It was 

 in this season we had the celebrated runs from Owning 

 and Annefield over the Wynne's Gorse country, through 

 the Kilmoganny and neighbouring plantations, and 

 far into the Kilkenny country, all with the same fox, 

 as far as Kilmoganny ; but here the **wily rover" 

 used generally give us the slip, and sagely shift the 

 hounds on to the line of a fresh fox. They were, on 

 17th December, 1861, 1 hour and 40 minutes; 28th 

 January, 1862, 4 hours and 5 minutes — 31 miles ; 24th 

 March, 1862,1 hour and 25 minutes; nth April, 

 1862, 2 hours and 5 minutes. That excellent 

 sportsman, taking him as a rider to hounds, a judge 

 of hounds and their management, as well as a crack 

 shot, Wm. Madden Glascott, of Alderton, to whom I 

 before alluded, wrote a little brochure on this season's 

 sport, under the ?iom de plume of " A Visitor." As I 

 have a copy, I will read you the account of one or 

 two runs, as given by him, and coming from such 

 a judge, they will be worth your attention. How 

 well I remember him sailing, as he used to do, to 

 hounds on his famous bay horse, " Schoolboy," and 

 how I used to envy his performances, though he was 

 then past the prime of life : but his heart, as 

 it is this momoit, was in its right place. This is 

 what he says: "January 28th, 1862 — Castletown — 

 Found our friend again at Talbot's Gorse, close to 

 Annefield ; had four mortal hours and five minutes 



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