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he was riding the race. They pelted him with 

 stones, many of them hit him ; and when he was 

 coming at the last fence, a wall over five feet high, 

 some ruffians, in order to stop him, pulled an ass and 

 car across it, so that he could not get over unless he 

 jumped the vehicle or donkey and the wall together. 

 The plucky sportsman was not to be baffled; he sent 

 his horse at it, and he flew the cart and wall in grand 

 style : he must have cleared nearly thirty feet in the 

 jump." 



** He showed first-rate sport while he was master, 

 you say; and used to have large fields too." 



" Capital sport ; a great many used to attend the 

 meets, and hard riding fellows they were. The 

 favourite covert was Castle Lambert, on the property 

 of Walter Lambert, who was a thorough sportsman, 

 and a capital rider to hounds. There was always a 

 fox in his coverts ; there were double stone walls, 

 five-and-half feet high, bounding each park, and 

 Lambert had holes made in them just large enough 

 to let the fox through, in order to ensure his taking 

 the stiff line. He built the walls purposely to ' try 

 the mettle of the boys,' as he used to say ; and to 

 see them charging them was indeed a sight calcu- 

 lated to bring the ' crimson to the forehead and the 

 lustre to the eye.' 



** Mr. Dennis died rather suddenly, at Spadacinni's 

 Hotel, Dublin. He was a bachelor, and some years 

 before his death inherited from his uncle a large 

 property ; it was called the Birmingham Estate. I 

 could tell you many stories of the wonderful feats of 

 Hycie Dixon, Lord Clanricarde, and George Henry 

 Moore (peace to their ashes, their like we seldom 



