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well-merited distinction, and was as good a rider 

 to hounds as any of his cotemporaries ; of Captain 

 Casey, I may say the same; Colonel Bruen, and 

 his brother John, not only in the Emerald Isle, 

 but in many an English shire, earned fame as 

 horsemen. On more than one page of this 

 volume the name of Mr. Horace Rochford of Clo- 

 grennon, is mentioned. He is a famous sportsman ; 

 as a rider to hounds, a polo-player, and a cricketter, 

 he was nulli secundus ; and he still keenly enjoys all 

 manly pastimes, and is far superior to many of his 

 junior rivals at those fine sports. The Messrs. 

 Bunbury (2), Steward Duckett, Bagenal, H. Bruen, 

 Charles Doyne, and Harman Cooper, are first-rate 

 men to hounds ; and so is the popular master, who, 

 I hope, will continue to show good sport for many 

 years to come. 



I cannot pass over the name of Watson without 

 making mention of the brother of the master of the 

 Carlow and Island Hounds, who, some fourteen or 

 fifteen thousand miles away, in her Majesty's most 

 flourishing colony, has acclimatised, and made racy of 

 the soil, the noble sport of fox-hunting. Two-and- 

 twenty years ago, Mr. George Watson first "laid on'* 

 the Melbourne foxhounds to a jackal (the late Colonel 

 Roberts, agent for the purchase of Indian ** re- 

 mounts," had imported twenty of the wily Indian 

 substitute for Reynard). Since then Mr. Watson has 

 not only succeeded in establishing a pack of foxhounds, 

 and mainly at his own expense, but has imbued the 

 ** sparse" dwellers of the *' New Continent" with a 

 hunting spirit, the exposition of which is represented 

 by the hunt meets in the daily papers of no less than 



