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In covert." Nevertheless, he had a happy knack of 

 lighting his own " dhudeen" even when the hounds 

 were running, and whenever they were carrying a 

 good head he might be seen, apparently as happy as 

 a prince, puffing away. 



The hounds were once running in the lower end of 

 the country, not far from Rosenalis, when, inirabile 

 dichc, Paddy Forde was pursued by a bull from a hag- 

 gard into a paddock, out of which there was no exit, 

 except at an almost impracticable stile. He hardened 

 his heart, and shaking his feet out of the irons, as was 

 his habit when going at a " yawner," he got over safe, 

 but it was into a plough, and the horse landing into 

 the headland broke both fore-legs. Pat escaped un- 

 injured, and his first exclamation was, when he turned 

 round and saw his enemy the bull on top of the fence, 

 *' bad luck to ye, you baste, you bruck mee little pipe." 

 More than a century ago, Lord Roden kept a pack and 

 hunted a portion of the country, continuing to do so 

 for some years, although he had but few followers 

 in the field. And many years ago, Colonel Arch- 

 dale, a noted sportsman, and native of Fermanagh, 

 used to bring a pack from the North, and hunt part 

 of the Queen's County, for a few months every season. 

 He had a very nice residence near Emo Park. 



When the Emo Hounds were established. Lord 

 Portarlington, oi Waterloo notoriety, resided at Emo ; 

 he was an excellent sportsman, and Sir Henry Parnell, 

 the ardent advocate of Catholic claims, and first Lord 

 Congleton, was master. He was a most popular man, 

 and represented the county l^efore the period of 

 Catholic Emancipation At the same time. Sir Robert 

 Staples hunted what is now called the Ossory country, 



