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novel — Market Harboro^ is scantily peopled during 

 the season by hunting-men. They who come are by 

 no means of a nomadic class. They settle down for 

 the winter, in solid earnestness ; abjure all outer 

 frivolities, whether of town or country ; but lay them- 

 selves out for early hours, many long journeys by 

 road, as few as possible by rail, and for a hunting life 

 in its most ascetic form. Market Harboro^, indeed, 

 has for many years been more essentially Tailbyite 

 than Pytchley ; and has thrown its sympathy and 

 interests especially into the well being of the former 

 denomination. Thus, though it joins in with the 

 Pytchley on a Wednesday and on Friday or Saturday^ 

 it is apt to consider itself '' over the border,^^ and to 

 adopt the other pack more particularly as its own. 

 On Monday it is Tailbyite to a man. So it is on 

 Thursday ; and so it is on any other day the pack 

 may be ordered to leave kennel. On a Tuesday the 

 Cottesmore offer themselves ; and if Friday or Satur- 

 day are left vacant near home, the Quorn or the 

 Cottesmore fill up the deficiency — a good hack home 

 being no less a necessity than a desideratum. Har- 

 boro^, in a less degree, suffers from the same complaint 

 as Eugby. Hounds are kennelled far away ; and a 

 man hunting from Market Harboro^ rides many more 

 miles with his head towards home than to covert. 



Northampton holds all the Pytchley country within 

 reach ; and, when the new line is completed, will be 

 a more eligible resort than now — Blisworth Junction 

 at present rather stopping the way. Hitherto it has 

 not been much frequented ; though, like Weedon, it 

 stands on a high pinnacle as a soldier's quarter. 



