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to propose this second resolution, and I never got up to speak with 

 greater regret than on the present occasion. ( Hear, hear.) I remember 

 how these hounds were handed over by the father of the present 

 Lord Waterford to the present committee. (Hear.) He also handed 

 over to us four hunters, a noble subscription, and the right to the use 

 of all his coverts, and from that day to the present his noble son has 

 done everything he could to promote the sport in the county. (Hear^ 

 and applause.) But, my lord, the sport itself was a small thing in 

 comparison with the good feeling that these hounds promoted amongst 

 all classes, all creeds, and men of all principles. (Hear, hear ) No 

 matter whether the partaker in the sf)ort was a peasant or a peer, a 

 Tory or a Radical, a Protestant or a Catholic, it was the sport of the 

 many. If a man fell at a fence, it was never asked who he is or what 

 he is, but every man galloped to raise him up and to enquire if he 

 was hurt. Some men fear the Land League will follow this up. I 

 regret exceedingly that all that we loved so much should in so 

 short a time be broken through. It was an outrage I did not think 

 possible. In this part of the country it was not thought possible 

 that anything of the kind could occur. There was no cause what- 

 ever for it. (Hear, hear.) The hounds hunted in the wood. No 

 man followed them over any field of any man who did not want his 

 field trampled on. What annoyed me more than anything else was 

 that I could not recognise any man in the crowd, that no people 

 were there whom we knew. There was a few belonging to the neigh- 

 bourhood, but they kept out of the way of people who would know 

 them. But there was no doubt an outrage was committed on that 

 day. I believe the people who committed it came from seven or 

 eight miles distance. They knew they were not known, and hence 

 they conducted themselves in a very outrageous manner. They did 

 injure some of the hounds. Not alone that, but they threw stones. 

 I don't believe they wanted to seriously hurt any man, but it was a 

 demonstration that could not be mistaken, for it was indeed the 

 death-knell of hunting in this country. Lord Waterford, like his 

 uncle, has lived all his life in Curraghmore, he has spent his money 

 tiere — (hear, hear)— he has offered to come to see us, to give us as fine 

 a pack of hounds as are in the world, to give us a handsome sub- 

 scription, and to encourage us in every way, if we can see our way 

 to hunt the county. (Cheers.) But 1 speak for myself, and I think 

 I may answer for every man in this room, that none of us will go out 

 to hunt in this county without his lordship. (Great cheering, and 

 " Certainly not.") I love sport as well as any man— (hear, hear) — 

 but I do say that I would rather never see a hunt again than to 

 see it without him. (Applause.) Therefore I would say that we 

 cannot accept his lordship's generous offer, and therefore beg leave to 

 propose this resolution. But before I conclude I have to say one word, 

 and I will say it. I do say that that demonstration on Thursday last 

 was not personal to his lordship any more than to any other man in 



