MR. JOHN HUBERT MOORE. 339 



Bellinter, Lord Howth, and the everlasting Charley 

 Brindley. 



He subsequently resided on the borders of the 

 King's and Queen's Counties, where for two seasons 

 he hunted with a fine pack under the management of 

 that famous sportsman, Mick Drought, than whom no 

 better master or more hospitable soul ever held a 

 horn. Thence circumstances brought him back to his 

 native county, where he became the intimate friend 

 and rival in the field of John Dennis, familiarly called 

 " Black Jack," then master of the renowned " Blazers." 

 At this period — about the year 1844 — l^^ seems to 

 have commenced the indulgence of that passion for 

 steeplechasing he has ever since, under varying cir- 

 cumstances of difficulty, clung to ; and with Miss 

 Mathews, Silence, Rasper, and others, he might be 

 seen doing the five-feet- walls, as the chasers of to-day 

 fly the wattle-fence of modern mis government. 



About this time, too, we find him the constant 

 companion of John Longworth of Glynn, who then, 

 and for many years after, hunted Westmeath and part 

 of Roscommon county, at his own expense, rivalling, in 

 the glory of fox-hunting, that prince of good fellows 

 and gentleman and sportsman, the late John Eyre 

 of Eyrecourt Castle, county Galway, whose countries 

 the river Shannon divided, and who was killed from a 

 fall in the hunting-field, and can never be forgotten 

 by those who knew him, or ever heard him cheer on 

 his grand pack to the death. We also find Mr. Moore 

 hunting, and our record says, "going well," in the 

 splendid Lower Ormond country, then hunted by a 

 pack the property of Mr. James Drought. 



Soon, the fearful famine and Landed Estates 



