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always to be induced to take a riglit direction^ and 

 you may often have to make up your mind to some 

 hours in deep rides. This not being in accordance 

 with the universal taste^ the fields on Monday are often 

 small and local, yet of a sport-loviug class. Hounds, 

 too, are to be seen at their best ; as they can work at 

 liberty and without pressure. Monday is also the day 

 on which neighbours of the Oakley join in, often 

 headed by their Master. 



Near Northampton itself a light and sandy soil is 

 the chief characteristic ; and scent is often weaker than 

 on the strong land. 



Some of the best Monday meets are Sywell Wood, 

 Hannington, Great Harrowden, Hard wick, Pytehley 

 (where once stood the Club House of the Hunt), 

 Cransley, and Orlingbury. And, besides those already 

 alluded to, the principal coverts are Biling Harbour, 

 Overstone Park, Yivian^s Covert, Blow Hill (at Great 

 Harrowden), Cockaroost, Cransley Wood, and Holcot 

 Covert. 



" A Pytehley Wednesday ^^ is a term that has long 

 ago passed into a proverb, and been accepted as a 

 type of a condition of things not to be seen elsewhere 

 in full perfection. If you would learn to what colossal 

 magnitude and manifold variety a hunting-field can 

 attain, go out on a Pytehley Wednesday to a favourite 

 fixture ! If you would observe how such a field can 

 cordially subject itself to proper discipline, stand at 

 the covert side as one of them ! If, again, you would 

 put your nerve and self confidence to a thorough test, 

 make yourself an atom in the Niagara-like rush to 

 which the ^' Gone away ^' is a signal ! If you would 



