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itself. But by 2.30 we were at Ballyluski. Hounds opened 

 at once, and within a couple of minutes a line fox broke 

 eastward from the gorse, caring nothing for the group of 

 horsemen on the hillside immediately above him. A slender 

 and sombre-clad field was that of to-dav. If I remember 



A fine fox broke from the c:orse 



rightly, the Master and his men alone offered coat of pink 

 to the weather ; while, all told, there could hardly ha\'e 

 been twenty people with the Hunt. The Hussars, by the 

 way, who are wont to furnish ever a strong detachment, 

 were on this occasion represented only by the single 

 vedette whom fortune or his turn of duty had posted at 

 Fethard. Squadron-drill, I learn, was the common ail- 



