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tenfold more influence upon the field than could any coming from a 

 Master. 



Her favourite horses were to be found, I think, among Anchor, 

 Enid, Mrs. Piiggs, and Zazelle, but I never saw her go much better 

 upon one horse than another. She always went well. 



In the early part of 1879, and again in the winter following, H.R.H. 

 the Duke of Connaught paid a visit to Lord and Lady Waterford at 

 Curraghmore. During the next summer Mr. William Osborne, 

 carrying out instructions received from Mr. Cranfield of Dublin, 

 painted a meet at which the Duke of Connaught was present. It 

 was in the Long Meadow part of Curraghmore Park, in front of the 

 house on the mountain side, and he brought in portraits of most of 

 the gentlemen who usually hunted with Lord Waterford. 



The artist produced a very fine work ; nearly all the likenesses are 

 faithful, while he succeeded in grouping the lot without undue 

 crowding and in their natural positions, and as Osborne is one 

 of the best painters of a foxhound in the kingdom, the hounds form 

 a remarkable feature in the picture, exceedingly good likenesses 

 having been made of most of them. 



Plates were struck ofl' from the original painting and have been 

 widely circulated, so there is no necessity for my further describing it. 



The gentlemen of the Hunt purchased the picture from Mr. Cran- 

 field and presented it to Lord Waterford in 1878. It has ever since 

 hung in a conspicuous place in the principal hall at Curraghmore, 

 and now presents a sad memento of what his great Hunt was in 

 happier days. 



From the " key " before me I give the names, in the order they there 

 appear, as a list of those who usually hunted with Lord Waterford. 



Frederick Power of Bellvue, Charles Gregory, Ptaymond de la Poer, 

 Miss Bloomfield, Sir Ptobert Paul, Lord V/illiam Beresford, Nicholas 

 A. Power of Bellvue, Ptichard Power of Tramore, William J. Paul, 

 Harry Pt. Sargent, Harry Courtenay, F. G. Bloomfield, Mrs. Bookey, 

 Earl of Bessborough, Patrick W. Power of Pembrokestown, Ptobert 

 O. Paul, E. N. Power of Tramore, Dowager Marchioness of Water- 

 ford, Henry W. Briscoe, L. G. Strangman, Lord Charles Beres- 

 ford, Lord Marcus Beresford, Captain Slacke, Ambrose Lambert, 

 Captain Cuffe, Captain Gandy^ C. E. Denny, Wray B. Palliser, Earl 

 of Donoughmore, Lord Delaval Beresford, Earl of Tyrone (a child on 

 his donkey), Marchioness of Waterford, Marquis of Waterford, Joseph 

 Strangman, Thomas Lalor, Captain Pennefather, Dr. O'Ryan, Joseph 

 O'Neill Power of Snowhill, James Mandeville, John Bell, Y.S., W. 

 G. D. GofF, Samuel Perry, Patrick Walshe, Arnold de la Poer, Miss 

 Yilliers Stuart, Thomas W. Anderson, D. K. Cummins, JohnH. Power 

 of Mount Richard, Octavian Mansfield, Benjamin Bunbury, John 

 Pender, Mrs. Gandy, William B. Mulcahy, Surgeon-Major Keogh, 

 with John Ryan (second horseman), John Duke (huntsman), Arthur 

 Wilson (first whip), Henry Mathews (second whip), and of course 

 the picture included H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught. 



