School: St. Cronan's, Bray
- Location:
- Bray, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Patrick Mac Donnell
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- (continued from previous page)The Kilruddery Hunt.
"Hark! Hark! jolly sportsmen, awhile to my tale,
Which to pay your attention I'm sure cannot fail;
'Tis of lads and of horses, and dogs that ne'er tire,
O'er stone walls and hedges, through dale, bog and briar;
A pack of such hounds and a set of such men,
'Tis a shrewd chance if ever you meet with again;
Had Nimrod, the mightiest of hunters, been there,
'Fore God, he had shook like an aspen for fear. "In Seventeen Hundred and Forty and Four,
The fifth of December, I think 'twas no more,
At five in the morning by most of the clocks,
We rode from Kilruddery in search of a fox.
The Loughlinstown landlord, the brave Owen Bray,
And Johnny Adair, too, were with us that day;
Joe Debil, Hal Preston - those huntsmen so stout -
Dick Holmes, some few others, and so we set out."We cast off our hounds for a full hour or more,
When Wanton set up a most terrible roar,(continues on next page)
