Interchange of Meets. — I omitted to make mention in Section II 

 of the interchange of meets which we had with the Tipperarys in 

 Briscoe's time. We used to go to Fethard with the Curraghmore, and 

 that prince of good fellows, John Going, used to bring his pack to 

 Carrick. This was done by each Hunt once every season for several 

 years, and on one occasion we paid the Wexford a visit at Stokestown, 

 Mr. Beatty returning it at Glenmore. By good luck we nearly always 

 had capital sport on those great days, despite the crowd and the hard 

 riding. The idea was excellent, and might with advantage be followed, 

 for nothing tended more to cement the good fellowship which always 

 existed between us and our neighbours than this selfsame interchange 

 of meets. Another time I may give the particulars of some of them 

 for I took very good care to be at them all. 



Duke's Death.— Duke, as stated at page 28, became kennel hunts- 

 man in 1877, and continued so until Mr. Springfield took the hounds to 

 Tin vane in 1882, when Lord Waterford gave him a pension, and he 

 continued to live at the kennels. A few couple of hounds were got 

 together in about 1885, with which Duke initiated young Lord Tyrone 

 into foxhunting, but had of necessity to confine his operations to the 

 woods and demesne of Curraghmore. These hounds in turn were dis- 

 posed of when the young Earl went to school, and on the 12th December, 

 1892, poor Duke died, aged fifty- three years, thirty- two of which were 

 practically spent with the same pack. 



Mpv. Strangman's Death. — With deep regret I have to record also 

 the death of my old friend Mr. Joseph Strangman, which occurred on 

 2nd May, 1895, in his sixty-fifth year. Good man to hounds as he 

 undoubtedly was, no one ever heard him talk about what he did. 

 Though fond of all sorts of sport he did not practically engage in any 

 but hunting. Poor Joe ! Many a jolly day we spent together, and 

 many were the long rides home we had. 



HUNTING. 

 Chapter II. 

 " Sport a National Benefactor."— Owing to my book not being 

 published as it should have been long before the Anti-Gambling League 

 began its onslaught upon our sports and pastimes, I was obliged last 

 Christmas to bring out in a pamphlet, entitled "Sport a National 

 Benefactor," calculations as to the money spsnt upon Hunting, Shoot- 

 ing, Fishing, Racing, and Yachting, similar to those which I had pre- 

 viously put together for this book, and which are to be found in their 

 respective chapters. Subsequently I brought out another pamphlet 

 dealing in the same way with our minor sports and manly games. 

 Both little books have been published by the Sporting League, 46a, Pall 

 Mai], London, where they are to be had for three pence each. They 



