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Furnell of Fort George, who place their deer-parks 

 at Mr. Gubbins' disposal. Mr. Furnell is a sports- 

 man " to the manner born ;" several of his ancestors 

 were noted sportsmen. I think it was Mr. George 

 Furnell's grandfather, a near relative of his, at all 

 events, who kept a pack of buck-hounds, and hunted 

 in the county Limerick during the "thirties." He 

 purchased them from Mr. Tuthill of Faha, who had 

 them for many years. They were the only pack of 

 the kind in Ireland, and were the largest hounds in 

 the world ; mostly all of a glossy white, and they used 

 to go at a tremendous pace. They were rare bred 

 hounds ; the strain belonged for centuries to the 

 Massey family, and were kept for running red-deer 

 on the Galtee mountains and glens of Aherlagh. Tra- 

 dation has it, that George the Third offered Mr. Massey 

 a very large sum of money for them. Mr. Gubbins is 

 a very devoted patron of hunting and steeplechasing, 

 and a very popular sportsman. He is a good man to 

 ride, and sported silk more than once successfully. 

 He hunts the hounds himself, and has shown first-rate 

 sport to his grateful neighbours ever since the pack 

 was formed. He always has a very good stud of 

 hunters. D. Hogan is kennel-huntsman and first 

 whip; John M'Grath assists him. 



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Mr. A. E. Humphrys of Lissagon House, Ballyhaise, 

 county Cavan, keeps the above-named pack entirely at 

 his own expense. He has twenty-four couple of dwarf 

 foxhounds, bred from good kennels, such as Lord 

 Paltimore, Sir V. Corbett, Mr. Shirley, and Mr. King 



