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whole life (with the exception of three years, during 

 which time he was huntsman to the Staghounds kept 

 by the late Lord Howth) in the service of the Persse 

 family, and lived also as huntsman for one or two 

 seasons with Mr. H. Daly of Raford. Richard Conroy 

 whipped under Sam Smith, but you tell me you have 

 heard all about him." 



'* Oh, yes ! I alluded to him in the history of the 

 Ormond Hunt." 



'' Michael Boyle served as first whip, and 

 kennel huntsman for about ten seasons, he then went 

 to Mr. Longworth, and was his huntsman for some 

 time. When Boyle left, eleven years ago, Joseph 

 Turpin came from the Cottesmore Hounds, where he 

 lived with Sir John Trollope (afterwards Lord Kes- 

 teven) as whip. He left last summer, and George 

 Browne is promoted, and John Croft, from the Bads- 

 worth, acts as second whip. George Browne came 

 to these hounds, four years ago, from Shropshire, 

 where he learned his business, and learned it well 

 too." 



** Well, what about the stables and kennels ?" 



" The stabling is excellent ; perfect, I might say, 

 in every particular; and the kennels are large, airy, 

 and kept as well as possible. The hounds are as good 

 a pack as there is in Ireland. And no wonder. The 

 ancestors of the hounds now in the Moyode kennel 

 were celebrities in Castle-Boy more than seventy 

 years ago ; and long before that, as I have already told 

 you, the Persse' s kept fox-hounds. And I have also 

 told you that the present master, his grandsire, and 

 father were judges of hounds, lovers of hunting, and 

 spared neither time nor expense in endeavouring to 



