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he is as fond of the sport now as ever ; his heart is still 

 as keen as the youngest of his followers in the field. 

 I hope he will carry the horn for years to come. His 

 son Jem has been whip to him for several seasons, and 

 knows and does his business well, and his urbane 

 conduct in the field claims the highest approbation. 

 An enumeration of the good men and true who have 

 ridden with the "Wards" were a labour of love; 

 but it would require a "sizeable" book to itself. 

 Every cavalry regiment in the service has given 

 its quota, and the names, Godman, Slacke, Ainsley, 

 Annesley, Hoey, Candy, Bates, Bell, Campbell, 

 Forrester, Forster, Greene, Warburton, Johnstone, 

 Barclay, Townley, Towers, Tait, Handly, Musters, 

 Lawrence, Hutchinson, Paulett, Prettyman, Kings- 

 cote, Beresford, Dixon, Fraser, Little, Severne, Trotter, 

 Kearsley, Clanmorris, M'Calmont, Lee Barber, and Har- 

 tigan are themselves such a record of first-flight soldiers 

 as is not to be found in the annals of any other pack. 

 I regret that the exigencies of space forbids my 

 dilating on their prowess, but I must rather hasten to 

 notice the men of to-day, whose effigy is so cunningly 

 set out in the Ward Hunt picture, which has been 

 on view in Grafton- street. 



On the right is the late Captain John Ferguson 

 Montgomery, of Ballydrain, Antrim, of which county 

 he was a D.L. and magistrate. No better supporter of 

 sport than he was, has these many years emerged from 

 the North. While yet in mourning for his gallant 

 brother, "killed in action" in the Crimea, he made 

 one of a very hard -riding trio, who occupied in common 

 the comfortable hunting quarters, Roseboro', between 

 Johnstown and Naas. Mr. M'Gildowney and Mr. 



