62 The Hunting Countries of England. 



splendid wood of tlie Duke of Buccleugli^s, wherein a 

 few years ago lialf a dozen foxes miglit be seen to 

 cross a ride in succession,, and where it is promised 

 tliat tlie same shall be seen again; Thorpe Gorse, 

 Titchmarsh Warren (from which foxes must take a 

 good line), George^s Thorns, Denford Ash, Eaunds- 

 Old- Meadow, Stan wick Pastures, with Catworth 

 Gorse and Hunt^s Closes at the extremity of the 

 country. All these, except Barnwell Wold, are com- 

 paratively small thorn or gorse coverts — where a fox 

 is glad to lie but not to stay when found. To the 

 north again, Oundle belongs more to the Thursday 

 country, as from it all Lord Westmorland's woods and 

 Cotterstock Wood (forming the extremity of the 

 Soke country) are often drawn — though in the other 

 direction it has Baron Eothschild's excellent covert 

 Ashton Wold to depend upon. 



Saturday is more especially for the Huntingdon side, 

 and its meets are, as a rule, to the east of the Oundle 

 and Thrapston Eoad — though Wednesday and Satur- 

 day are looked upon as belonging so much to one dis- 

 trict that the rule is anything but an absolute one, and 

 such fixtures as Barnwell Castle, Alconbury Hill, 

 Abbott's Eipton, and Buckworth Village are as often 

 told off for one day as the other. Very little hunting 

 is to be done on the east of the Peterborough and 

 Huntingdon Eailway (coloured though it is on Stan- 

 ford's Map — Sheet 16) ; for you are in the Pens 

 almost immediately. And it may here be noted that 

 the Pitzwilliam southern boundary line runs from 

 Kimbolton to Graffham and from Graffham straight 

 across to Huntingdon, instead of along the river Ouse, 



