No one supposed that he had much capital to work with; but still, when he lost a bet he paid it.
Soon after his return from Spain, he was chosen as Master of the Runnymede Fox-Hounds, and was thus enabled to write the letters M.F.H.after his name.

The gentlemen who rode with the Runnymede were not very liberal in their terms, and had lately been compelled to change their Master rather more frequently than was good for that quasi-suburban hunt; but now they had fitted themselves well.

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.