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landmarks of Harboro^, Rothwell, Brixworth, Cottes- 

 brooke, Naseby and Sulby. Most of this, too, is grass 

 of the finest type : and the part containing the 

 parishes of Clipston, Oxendon, Braybrooke, &c., is 

 fenced in the most terrific style — timber being very 

 frequently added to both sides of the stake -and-bonnd 

 hedges. The late Jim Mason was wont to say, that no 

 man could ride the fences from Waterloo Gorse to 

 Dingley without three falls, however well he might be 

 mounted. Waterloo Gorse stands in the centre of this 

 formidable tract, and is consequently rather a dread 

 than a delight — at least to men of ordinary constitu- 

 tion. There are many other excellent coverts 

 scattered through the district — notably Blueberry and 

 Berrydale near Cottesbrooke, Faxton Corner, Loatland 

 Wood, Scotland Wood, Blue Covert (the planting of 

 which is ascribed to the Blues, when last quartered at 

 Northampton), Naseby Covert, Naseby Woolleys 

 (where a fox is generally found in some corner of the 

 garden) . Talliho is another nice covert in a beautiful 

 country near Kelmarsh, and Sulby Gorse is seldom 

 without a fox. Marston Wood and the plantations 

 about Marston Trussels are neutral with Mr. Tailby's. 

 The meets for all these are Cottesbrooke Park, Lam- 

 port Hall, Fox Hall, Harrington, Kelmarsh Hall, 

 Oxendon, Clipston Windmill, Naseby, Maidwell and 

 Sibbertoft. 



We need prolong this sketch of the Pytchley no 

 further than to remark that theirs is, on the whole, a 

 superlatively pleasant country over which to ride to 

 hounds. It is less hilly and trying to horses than 

 High Leicestershire ; and, with the exception above 



