lOIIN SWIRE ON 



28' 



than pleased when, at the end of a long, slow, hunting run of about an hour 

 and a half, he handled his fox in Latton Park. A good run for trying 

 hounds, a good run for conditioning horses, a good run for children on 

 ponies, but not quite the class of thing for the cut-and-thrust division. 

 Luckily the Master was always on the spot to check vaulting ambition. 

 The bay horse, or rather, mare, to which I made previous allusion, in 

 the hands of her bold and fearless owner has developed into an Essex 

 hunter of the first class, and has gone up in price accordingly. 



John Swire 



York ' 



A o-ood photo, of ci o-ood-lookin_^- man and a o-ood horse 

 most people will admit ; none will deny it who have seen theni 

 o-o, that they know how to carve their way across a country. 

 Mr. Swire keeps his horses at the " Green Man," Harlow, 

 where, he assures me, he has always been made most 

 comfortable. The animal upon which he is here shown, 

 " York," a bay, standing- about 15.2, he purchased from the late 



