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the pace hounds generally go now would be too much 

 of a good thing." 



" Oh, decidedly so." 



"Who had the hounds after 1810?" 



'' The late Viscount Lismore again hunted the 

 country, and kept his hounds at Peterfield. The Hon. 

 George O'Callaghan kept hounds at Knocknacree- 

 wood House, and hunted the country for several 

 years, having for his huntsman the celebrated Tony 

 Cashen." 



" He was a first-class rider and huntsman, I be- 

 lieve." 



" He was — no better. He was whip to the ' Blazers' 

 before he came to Ormond, and graduated under the 

 famous Sam Smith, who was hunt-servant to the 

 Persse family for many years, and a noted huntsman." 



'* Well, who was the next master?" 



•* Captain John Hammersly, who kept his hounds, 

 as a subscription pack, at Northlands, near Clough- 

 jordan, which is about the centre of the Ormond hunt- 

 ing-district. He had a very good pack of fine, big, 

 symmetrical-looking, brindled hounds that were bred 

 mostly from the kennel of Mr. Hedges Eyre of 

 Macroom Castle.; and he got some drafts from the 

 Duke of Rutland." 



" You say this pack was kept by subscription — 

 who were the most liberal subscribers ? " 



*' Lords Clanricarde, Lismore, Dunally, Bloomfield, 

 Clonbrock, Messrs. Thomas Ryder Pepper of Laughton, 

 and Otway Cave, were subscribers of ^50 a year each ; 

 and there were over forty members of the hunt who 

 dined together at Brindley's hotel, Nenagh, twice 

 every winter." 



