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Mr. P. CoUyer and Mr. C. Carroll, in spite of an un- 

 lucky turn at starting, were both on the scene of the hill 

 as soon as others ; while Miss Roby and Miss Carey, with 

 intuitive knowledge of locality, had contrived to bring 

 their vehicles alongside the chase for the final half-mile. 



Mr. Frank Griswold's handling of hounds is, I may be 

 permitted to say, both quiet and masterly. As to his 

 riding to them, I will merely remark that if any man 

 could be found in England or Ireland capable of sailing 

 more smoothly, determinedly, and gracefully over the 

 tremendous timber fences of the day in question, I would 

 gladly travel from far to see him do it. 



CHAPTER XXI 



THE 13TH hussars' hounds, CORK 



My first ride with hounds after landing at Queenstown 

 was on Monday, October 17, 1892, under the kind auspices 

 of the 13th Hussars, who, like their predecessors the 3rd, 

 himt the district immediately west of Cork, originally " The 

 Muskerry." "A rough country," they told me ; and cer- 

 tainly in some of its characteristics it seemed very different 

 from any I had seen before. But I have seen many a 

 rougher ; and hope I may never be called upon to ride 

 in a worse. This is my after impression, gathered on such 

 material as the day afforded, added to a wide bird's-eye 

 view of the undulating plains that stretch southward from 

 the River Lea. 



If a cavalry regiment quartered at the little village of 

 Ballincollig (some four or five miles from the city of 

 Cork) did not keep a pack of hounds, it passes man's 

 understanding to suggest what the officers could do 

 during the winter months, when once the demands of 

 Her Most Gracious Majesty upon their time are duly 

 satisfied. For beyond Ballincollig is, apparently, nothing ; 

 and Cork, though doubtless a great and genial city, at 

 least puts in no higher claim than Peebles as to being 

 superior to London on the score of attractiveness. 



