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Alley, of New Park, took them. Up to that period 

 they used to hunt " bag" -foxes, but Mr. Alley got a 

 number of fallow-deer, gave up fox-hunting, and after 

 a few years red-deer were procured. 



The late Lord Howth, in 1840, brought over Mr. 

 Broadley's Staghounds from Leamington, and kept 

 them, with a subscription from the military, till Lady 

 Howth died in 1842 ; he then sold them to the Dublin 

 Garrison, and they were known as the Garrison 

 Hounds. A first-rate pack they were— indeed I have 

 heard good judges say that they were the fastest they 

 ever saw. 



Captain Forrester hunted them for a few years, 

 and then they were presided over by one of the best 

 horsemen that ever sat in a saddle. Captain Armit, 

 who rode the winners of many important races, and 

 was a great favourite. He was succeeded by his 

 brother soldier, the Hon. William Hutchinson, who 

 with his brother, the late Lord Donoughmore, and his 

 cousin, Colonel (then Captain) Richard Bernard, and 

 other relatives, made up a family party not rivalled 

 before or since. Their *' larks" are still fresh in 

 the memory of many, and the recountal of " Dear 

 Dickies'," or " Bright Billy's" doings, would 

 fill a volume by itself. The latter was a sports- 

 man in the truest sense of the word, and a braver 

 never won or wore a Victoria Cross. (He tried 

 hard to win it.) He was assisted in the field by 

 Captain Richard Bernard — in those days the luckiest 

 and, perhaps, the pluckiest of all contemporary horse- 

 men. The sport during their reign was splendid. In 

 1854, the Crimean war broke out, and several of those 

 who hunted with and supported the Garrison hounds 



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