40 SPORTING REMINISCENCES 



touched the wood, the roofs leaked, and had to be 

 lined with felt, but horses never looked so bloom- 

 ing or did so well. 



The first meet at Kilkenny is always at the 

 Club House Hotel in the town. It is delightful 

 hunting for a poor man living in Kilkenny itself, 

 as the farthest meet there was eight miles off. 

 Freshford is the best of stone-wall countries the 

 meet boasts. 



The Kilkenny hounds were hard to live with in 

 those days, on good scenting days. For Mr. 

 Langrishe had them out of covert in a few seconds, 

 went away with a few couple and let the tail 

 hounds take care of themselves. There was no 

 stopping of the leaders. The county is not big 

 taking it all round, but trappy, light going, and 

 carries a wonderful scent. 



Down near Tory Hill Mr. Langrishe took the 

 Waterford county for a time. With nothing to 

 stop hounds, we used to run at a terrific pace, 

 over fly banks and Ught pasture. 



The country round Upper Killeen is almost 

 perfect, and we had some great hunts from that 

 covert. 



Mr. Langrishe was a light weight, riding small 

 well-bred horses, all of them fast. Blazes, a little 

 chestnut which was almost perfection, dropped 

 dead with him one day near Callan. I cannot 

 remember the name of the gorse. He was 

 a wonderful huntsman, patient as well as 



