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and in many a run on coming" to check have I seen him 

 (\u\<^i\y pa ddvio- out the missing Hnk, while nearly everyone else 

 was talkino- or gapino- about. 



I should only have had one doubt about him coming up to 

 one's expectations as a Master, and that would have been on 

 the side of slowness — which might have resolved itself into a 

 case of all hunt and no ride, so fond was he of hound work. 

 I)ut when hounds ran who could go better ? And who was 

 there — or who is there you would more readily mount upon 

 a favourite hunter than the subject of this memoir ? 



Friar 



A Splendid horseman, with grand nerve, he never jumped 

 an unnecessary fence, but , he was ahvays with Iioiinds, no 

 matter what horse he was riding. That he has had some good 

 ones in his time the accompanying portrait of one, and short 

 account of the other, will amply prove. 



Friar. — Light iron grey, i6. i, by 

 " Lovett," g. d. by " Irish 7'hunderbolt." 

 wood writes, of — 



"Thomas Forrest, iith Hussars, in 

 hunter, and one of the finest hunter jumpers I ever saw, and 

 certainly unequalled over stone walls and timber. He cleared 

 a five-foot (as measured) wall with me, the celebrated Bob 



4 



"Outfit," dam by 

 Bought, Mr. Lock- 



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a very fast 



