62 IRISH SPORT AND SPORTSMEN. 



again at him over the Wynne's Gorse country ; away 

 to Mr. Wall Morris's plantations, to near Callan, to 

 near Kells; faraway into the Kilkenny Hunt country. 

 This run (though too much of a good thing) was for 

 pace, country, and length, such as a man can only ex- 

 pect to see once in his lifetime, and we believe the 

 hounds had all the latter portion of it to themselves. 

 No one up but the master, and no wonder, few even 

 attempting to struggle on to the finish ; and that good 

 man, Mr. Mulcahy, losing his famous chestnut mare, 

 found dead in her stable next morning, no doubt from 

 the severity of the run." 



"March 14th — Kilmacthomas — Found in Sir 

 Edward Kennedy's plantation ; ran to near Wood- 

 house, back by Comeragh Lodge, and into the Dungar- 

 van country; one hour and twenty minutes — very fast, 

 to ground on an island in a pond." I saw this run my- 

 self, and it was as fine as man need wish to see. Same 

 day we had a tickler from Kilmacthomas Gorse up to 

 Croghawn mountain — terrible pace, but only fifteen 

 minutes. 



Glascott gives his opinion in his little pamphlet on 

 the hounds, which I will also read you: " The hunting 

 hounds consist generally of twenty-five or thirty couple, 

 standing, on an average, about twenty-two and a half 

 inches, of great length, bone, and muscle, which, on a 

 near inspection, surprises you, as, looking at them side- 

 ways from a little distance, as they step along to cover, 

 brought out, as they are, in such condition (fit to go), 

 they appear light, lengthy hounds. We cannot say 

 what the kennel discipline is, but when brought out, 

 they appear to me as near perfection as it is pos- 

 sible to bring hounds. In the field they depend 



