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Updated: October 25, 2025
He would have liked to call upon his late partner to declare that a more honourable man than Major Tifto had never been known on the turf. But he felt himself to be so far down in the world that it was not safe for him to hold an opinion of his own, even against the livery-stable keeper!
At any rate then in his confusion he found no cause of lameness, but the horse was led into the stable as lame as a tree. Here Tifto found the nail inserted into the very cleft of the frog of the near fore-foot, and so inserted that he could not extract it till the farrier came. That the farrier had extracted the nail from the part of the foot indicated was certainly a fact.
That I should walk here, which I often do, does not seem to me odd. But that I should find you is marvellous. Do you often come?" "Never was here in my life before. I strolled in because I had things to think of." "Questions to be asked in Parliament? Notices of motions, Amendments in Committee, and that kind of thing?" "Go on, old fellow." "Or perhaps Major Tifto has made important revelations."
A farmer had also asserted that he and his friends had resolved that Major Tifto should not ride over their fields. On the next day the Major had his hounds out, and some of the London men, with a few of the neighbours, joined him. Gates were locked; but the hounds ran, and those who chose to ride managed to follow them.
But when the horse was got into the stable he, Tifto, so he declared, at once ran out to send for the farrier. During the minutes so occupied the operation must have been made with the nail. That was Tifto's story, and as he kept his ground, there were some few who believed it. But though the story was so far good, he had at moments been imprudent, and had talked when he should have been silent.
Gradually had he and Captain Green come to understand each other, and though they did at last understand each other, Tifto would talk as though there were no such correct intelligence; when for instance he would abuse Lord Silverbridge for being pig-headed. On such occasions the Captain's remark would generally be short.
How he was to hunt the country five days a fortnight, finding servants and horses, and feeding the hounds, for eight hundred pounds a year, no one could understand. But Major Tifto not only undertook to do it, but did it. And he actually succeeded in obtaining for the Runnymede a degree of popularity which for many years previous it had not possessed.
But the chairman had acceded, and on such occasions it is difficult to go against the chairman. Then there came a show of hands, first for those who desired to refer the matter to Lord Silverbridge, and afterwards for Tifto's direct enemies, for those who were anxious to banish Tifto out of hand, without reference to any one. At last the matter was settled. To the great annoyance of Mr.
I'm in that state of mind that any change would be for the better. But he, he ought to have it heavy." "It won't be done by me, Major Tifto. Look here, Major Tifto; you have come here to confess that you have done me a great injury?" "Yes, I have." "And you say you are sorry for it." "Indeed I am." "And I have forgiven you. There is only one way in which you can show your gratitude.
Tifto, Silverbridge, and Mr. Pook visited him together three times that afternoon and evening; and the Captain also visited the horse, though not in company with Lord Silverbridge. To do Mr. Pook justice, no one could be more careful. When the Captain came round with the Major, Mr. Pook was there.
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