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chaser but as a hunter we like to recall him, for no bolder horse 

 was ever steered over a country. He never turned his head 

 away from a brook, and if he couldn't qet over in one way he 

 would in another : of the truth of which statement he gave us 

 ample proof by the method he tackled a wide one in the 

 Shenfield countr\- in '96, and no one attempted to follow. 



Edward M. Tufnell 



Teddie Tufnell — how well he used to go on his grey, " The 

 Colonel ! " We heave a sigh that no portrait of this gallant 

 horse can adorn these pages. Never hunted by anyone before 

 he was 12, he carried Mr. E. Tufnell brilliantly at the tail of 

 the hounds, fox or stag, it mattered not, and in five seasons 

 only gave him one fall. Mr. Tufnell recalls that one of the 

 best runs he ever saw with the late Mr. Henry Petre was from 

 Hieh Easter to Parndon ; * and the best with the fox from 



It sounds good enough. — Ed. 



