130 Hunting Countries of England. 



THE PYTCHLEY.* 



No pack in England_, certainly no Subscription Pack, 

 has had older associations or more honoured names 

 than the Pytchley. And their fame never stood 

 higher than now. 



Their country embraces some of the fairest of the 

 Midlands,, covering, as it does, the best part of 

 Northamptonshire, and dove-tailed into Leicestershire 

 between the Atherstone and Mr, Tailby's. Its easy 

 accessibility from London is not the smallest of its 

 attractions (at least in the eyes of readers for whom 

 these sketches are chiefly intended) ; and cannot but 

 commend it to them as the most desirable of all 

 hunting grounds. 



At the same time it necessarily follows that he who 

 would hunt with the Pytchley must not be shy of 

 a crowd. In that crowd he will be free to move as he 

 thinks fit, without cavil and without criticism — to 

 throw in his luck with the hard riders, to follow 

 steadily with the main body, or to trot the roads and 

 gates that by their felicitous help render such a 

 country as delectable for sober old age as for hot- 

 blooded youth. 



* Vide " Stanford's Large Scale Map," Sheets 15 and 16 ; also 

 " Hobson's Foxhunting Atlas." 



