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have made to Colonel Bernard was written before 

 his death. I need not dwell on the circumstances 

 attending his very sudden demise ; they are fresh 

 in the memory of his friends. At the inquest, a 

 man looking, for the last time, on the face of Colonel 

 Bernard, said : " Good-bye, poor Colonel Bernard ; 

 waistcoat never buttoned over a braver or kinder 

 heart than yours." All who knew him would say the 

 same. 



Lord Waterford has been so often written of in 

 other chapters, that a mention of him here would be 

 mere repetition. But his name brings me back to his 

 contemporary and opponent on so many a well-fought 

 field, the late " Lord Howth." During the fifty-tw^o 

 years which this nobleman was head of the house of 

 St. Lawrence, no name loomed bigger in the view of 

 his countrymen than his. His hunting career has 

 been elsewhere touched on, to do it justice were 

 a difficult task ; and a brief, and, perhaps, imperfect 

 reference to his doings on the turf, is all that is open 

 to me now. 



Lord Howth, Viscount St. Lawrence, Vice- Admiral 

 of Leinster, &c., born 1803, succeeded to the title as 

 3rd Earl, 1822. The earldom of Howth is of compara- 

 tively modern date — 1 767. The barony is very ancient, 

 as his Lordship's ancestor. Sir Amory Tristram, 

 was created Baron of Ilov/th, 1 177. The first time the 

 late Lord Howth's name ajDpeared in the " Irish Calen- 

 dar" was in 1826, when he was only twenty-three 

 years of age. After such a lapse of time, it would be 

 more than useless for me to allude fully to all Lord 

 Howth's performances in the saddle, or the *' doings" 

 of all the good racers and chasers that carried his 



