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immediately set to work to improve them ; and by 

 the influx of new blood, the best that could be got, he 

 soon got together a splendid lot of hounds, with short 

 legs, great length, and good neck and shoulders ; 

 and the present noble owner has often complimented 

 him on the grand pack he handed over to him." 



*' Mr. Briscoe kept the Kilkenny Hounds to the 

 end of the season, 1875-6, and then the present 

 master took them ; is not that so?" 



" Yes ; the master who now has them, Colonel 

 Chaplin, has given great satisfaction, and, I am sure, 

 he will continue to do so." 



•* He was Colonel of the 4th Dragoon Guards, was 

 he not?" 



"Yes." 



" Briscoe improved the Kilkenny Hounds, too, I 

 am sure?" 



** Indeed he did, very much ; and you seldom, I 

 think I may say you never, rode after a finer pack than 

 you did to-day." 



** I admit they justify your praise." 



" I am sure of it ; and not only Kilkenny, but the 

 fox-hunting world, must admit that no man has done, 

 or could have done more, than Mr. Briscoe has done to 

 save the Kilkenny Hunt, and to bring the pack back 

 to its former pres/zge.^^ 



" He must have known a good deal about hounds 

 and hunting when he took the Waterford Hounds, or 

 he could not have hunted them so well and improved 

 them so much." 



"So he did; he was born in 1810, and after 

 graduating in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1828, he 



