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hard riding, and we generally had good sport and 

 always the greatest fun. The Tips are the most hos- 

 pitable people under the sun. A Cead-MIUe-Failthe 

 for all. Poor old John Going ! He was a good 

 soul, and so glad to see us all ! Peace be to his 

 ashes ! 



You remark I have not told you of many runs we had 

 in the Waterford country. I forgot them or mixed them 

 up, we had so many. We had one about six years ago, 

 from Gardenmorris, through Carrigeen, by upper and 

 lower Ballyphilip, bent to the left, through Knocka- 

 derry, to the right by Mrs. Christmas' s school-house, 

 across the Gardenmorris road, to Pembrokestown, by 

 the house, by Butlerstown, to near Mount Congreve, 

 then to the right, and killed him in the open at Old 

 Court. This was eighteen miles, time one hour and 

 forty minutes. We had scores of fine runs over the 

 Waterford country, from Ballydurn, Rathgormack, 

 Kilmoylan, Sir Edward Kennedy's plantations, and 

 others, but it would take me a month to tell you of 

 them. 



What sort of country have we ? We have every 

 sort. The Welsh hills (Lord Bessborough's property), 

 and Pembrokstown, are as bad as can be, rocks and 

 stones everywhere ; hounds have a fair, but horses 

 a very bad chance of going over it. They are 

 fine wild places, and the Welsh hills provide us with 

 wild, hardy, good foxes, and are well cared for by 

 Lord Bessborough's tenantry. The same can't be said, 

 however, for Pembrokestown, for that is the only part 

 of this country in which a fox is not well treated, 

 although as fine a sportsman as ever lived has pro- 

 perty there, Mr. Congreve Rogers. We find in his 



