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Fourth Section.— Thomas O. Springfield, Esq., Master, 1882-84. 



Concluding ivith additional matter and Opinions rjiven hy the Author. 



Lord Waterford to Hunt in England— Hunted from Badminton— Curraghmore closed- 

 Servants discharged— No Hunting— Bitch Pack retained— Dog Pack sold— Lord Lons- 

 dale- Another Hunt Meeting— What happened— Munificent offer bj' Lord Waterford — 

 Different opinions— Sporting Speech by his Lordship— Result— Mr. Springfield chosen 

 Master— Tinvane— Will Rawle— Kennett— The Curraghmore again a Subscription Pack 

 —Lamentable contrast— Opposition resumed— Gaultier v. other places— Mr. Patrick 

 Wall of Creilan— His Father— Malignant Obstructionists— Worse and worse— Insults 

 to Ladies— Hunt attacked— Armed mobs— On the P'ences— Howling and yelling— ^Mobs. 

 charged— Fences taken— Cowardly gangs— Poisoning the Hounds— Contrast— Another 

 curious fact— Lowest classes— Ballinaboola— Great escape of the Pack from total annihi- 

 lation—Another Hunt Meeting— All further idea of Hunting relinquished— Hounds to 

 be returned to Lord Waterford— Last day the Curraghmore Hounds drew a Covert— Mr. 

 Springfield as Master— Will Rawle as Huntsman- His courage and determination- 

 Unparalleled opposition— Banquet to Springfield— A sorrowful company— Sale of the 

 Dog Pack- Full particulars— Ditto Bitch Pack— Remarks on both Packs— Table 

 of Masters of the Curraghmore— Table of Huntsmen— Notable Whippers-iu— Long^ 

 Reference to. 



Author makes further Reference— Lord and Lady Waterford Hunting in England— Where^ 

 they Hunted— Lord Waterford's accident — The House of Lords— Master of the Euck- 

 hounds— Authentic details of the accident— Its results— From beginning to present 

 time— Lord Waterford and Racing— Curraghmore Hunt Steeplechases instituted — 

 Ballydnrn—Williamstown— Their duration— The Stakes— Modesty of the Author — 

 First Red Coat Race— An Event in it — The Greatest Event in the Annals of the- 

 Meeting— " The Brothers' Race "—Detailed Particulars— From Start to Finish— The 

 Scene on the Course— John Ryan, Stud Groom- His Services— Lord Waterford a re- 

 sident Iiish nobleman— Paradoxical working— The Land League— Its greatest stum- 

 bling block —The Lords of Waterford and their Tenantry — Sedition — Agitation — Fox- 

 hunting, why assailed — Lord Waterford, why selected — Deplorable result — Particulars . 

 thereof— Establishing a Pack of Foxhounds v. Stud of Hunters— Author's long 

 dialogue thereon— Few Thoroughbred Packs— Indifferently-bred Packs— They show 

 sport— And should be supported— What we want is Sport— The Irish Tenant Farmers • 

 —Author's long acquaintance with— Love of sport home-spun in them— Demoralised 

 solely by evil teaching— By the lowest scum of society— Gaultier a noble example- 

 Mr. Patrick Wall again — "At the same time" — Why Author denounces the Land 

 League in these pages— Land League brought Politics into the Hunting Field— Sport 

 knows no politics —The curtain drops— Accuracy of dates and data vouched for by the 

 Author — Those published by others incorrect — Personal and peculiar advantages of 

 the Author— Feelings of Author while compiling this long History. 



Immediately after the meeting just alluded to Lord Waterford^ 

 made arrangements to hunt in England for the future. He and Lady 

 Waterford remained at Curraghmore, and did not hunt until after 

 Christmas, 1881 ; they then went to Badminton and finished the 

 season with the Duke of Beaufort. 



Of course Curraghmore was shut up, and the servants, with many 

 of the stablemen, were discharged. 



The hounds did not hunt at all in the season 1881-82, after the- 

 atrocity in Xewtown Wood. 



Lord Waterford sold the dog pack immediately after the outrage, but 

 cherishing a hope that perhaps the agitation against country 

 gen 1 imen which was rampant in Ireland at the time might quiet 

 down, kept on the bitches, on the chance of hunting being resumed 

 the following season. Lord Lonsdale was at that time Master of the: 



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