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but tliey failed to baulk Lord William Bentinck, who came 

 next, and whose previous training had taught him to make 

 light of what was, after all, nothing worse than a blind 

 Meath ditch. For my part, I have been served that way 

 before, and once even lost a run in Warwickshire by 

 being thus frightened. I think you may take it as a rule 

 that, even if the danger be half as awful as the shouter 

 would make you believe, you are still just as likely to get 

 over as he was. But I never like him for shouting merely 

 because the place is bigger than he had fancied. Do 

 you ? 



I will bring my jottings to an end as soon as possible. 

 The gorse and glen of Ballyluski (one of the very best 

 coverts in Tipperary) formed the afternoon draw, and 

 showed us a crowd of foxes. A glorious country, such 

 as had been pictured to me, and such as I had seen much 

 of during the ride to covert, w^as spread all round. But 

 the multitude of foxes and of foot-people prevented sport, 

 and the day ended with our hunting a second fox to 

 ground near Gracetown. 



The field of the day was not a large one. It embraced 

 perhaps a score of those of the day before, added to, I 

 was informed, by Dr. Heffernan, Major Langley, Mr. 

 Kennedy, &c. Mr. Riall was riding a strikingly good- 

 looking stallion by Hesper. But the prince of horses in 

 the field was the Master's brown Newtown, with which he 

 has won the Tipperary Point-to-Point the last two years, 

 and for which a great sum of money has been refused. 

 In conclusion, I venture to record my testimony that not 

 only are the Tipperary "well done" in the commonly 

 accepted sense of the term, but the hounds are sharp and 

 hard-driving upon a fox ; while Mr. Burke, besides pos- 

 sessing the none too common combination of keenness 

 and good temper, has acquired also the art of helping 

 them when necessary. 1 cannot but think there will be 

 great sport in Tipperary in the near future. 



My two most pleasant days at an end, it became 

 necessary for me to journey on to reach another scene 

 for the morrow. But how to go hunting next morning 

 was now an anxious question with me. The bog-bedaubed 



