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he is an undoubted good judge of both horses and 

 hounds ; he is a first-rate shot, but neither a fisher- 

 man, courser, nor yachtsman ; nor is he fond of racing. 

 The Dowager Marchioness is perhaps as popular a lady 

 with our hunt as there exists in any hunt in Great Britain. 

 She too goes over the country in the most artistic 

 style, though, strange to say, it is only within the last 

 few years she has taken to cross the country. She is 

 also most genial and kind in her manner to everyone. 



Love of fox-hunting is, no doubt, a very great 

 desideratum in a nobleman in the high position Lord 

 Waterford is ; but society demands other and more 

 important duties to be performed by a man so circum- 

 stanced, and in them my subject shines brightly. 



He is a landlord possessed of immense landed, 

 property, and he has made himself personally ac- 

 quainted with every tenant on his estates : he knows 

 their wants, and sees them satisfied without distinction 

 of creed or politics. In the management of the busi- 

 ness details of the several establishments within the 

 confines of his vast demesne — the farm-yard, the 

 farming, the woods and plantings, the stables, kennels, 

 and all else — he takes the greatest personal interest, 

 and superintends the working of all, and has all 

 regulated with that precision as regards detail and 

 accounts as would give credit to Hardy and Townsend. 

 He has established a factory in Kilmacthomas, for 

 the making of the famous *' Waterford Frieze," in 

 which are employed from 200 to 300 hands ; and by 

 his sound sense he has made it a very money-making 

 concern. 



Lady Waterford assists her noble spouse in all 

 these laudable undertakings, and has instituted in- 



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