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Mr. Edwards ever rode was " Baroness,'' whose portrait is here 

 given. Purchased in 1878 from the man who bred her (Mr. 

 Winder, a well-known Essex farmer and devotee of hunting, 

 living at Thunderley Hall, Radwinter), she carried Mr. 

 Edwards no less than eleven seasons, and finally bred him a 

 colt which, under the name of " Mistletoe Bough," he rode for 

 three seasons and sold to Mr. Percy Whitaker, Master of the 

 Oakley Hounds. 



Baroness " 



Guy Edwards and his brother Noel, both take after 

 their father in their love of fox-hunting, though, if I may be 

 permitted to say so, the younger one is a bit the keener ; he 

 hasn't, however, so far to fall, and does not mind taking a toss 

 as lonor as he lands the rio-ht side of a fence. He left a 

 good many the wrong side of one in a run from Shalesmore 

 in January, 1898, when he jumped some stiff rails on his 

 clever pony. The grey which carries the elder brother so 

 well is a very well-known performer in Essex, for she carried 

 Major Maryon Wilson in the first flight for several seasons, 

 and though I have seen the Major turn a complete somer- 

 sault with the grey over a double in the Dagenham country, 

 I never saw the grey turn her head from a fence, or the 

 Major either. 



