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thing as follows : The Kennels at Brixworth (some 

 seven miles from Northampton) being taken as a 

 central point. Monday is mapped out for the east, 

 Wednesday for the west_, and Friday and Saturday 

 alternately for the north and south. And these four 

 divisions, again, may be classed respectively as the 

 Northampton, the Rugby, the Harboro' (north) and 

 Weedon (south) districts. 



The area of the Monday, or Northampton, district is, 

 roughly speaking, outlined by the points of Kettering, 

 Wellingboro^, and Northampton. Though not so 

 popular with the general public as the country 

 belonging to the other three days of the Pytchley, it 

 not only has its share of sport, but, taking an average 

 of several seasons through, has probably been richer 

 than the others. The Pytchley field generally (and 

 who shall blame them ? Certainly not those who 

 know them) prefer the small gorse coverts and the 

 grass, to the deep woods and the plough of the 

 Northampton country. Not that all of the latter is 

 plough, by any means. It contains one or two very 

 fine tracts of grass. Round Harrowden, for example, 

 there is excellent going, fences fully worthy of the 

 grass, and generally a good scent. Another circle of 

 nice country has for its centre Faxton — a village to 

 which there is no better driving road than a grass 

 track across the fields. Foxes from Old Poor's Gorse 

 and Mawsley Wood constantly cross this, and seldom 

 without leaving a scent. 



On the other hand, much of this part of North- 

 amptonshire is plough deep and heavy — such as would 

 kill the rush of a true Pytchley field as thoroughly as. 



