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as it remained on the resumption by the Cottesmore 

 of the territory they had left. After this his hunting- 

 grounds were restricted to the south side of the 

 turnpike road running from Leicester to Uppingham. 

 The other boundaries were as coloured on Stanford's 

 Map — the Wye Brook and the Welland marking the 

 east and south east — the Leicester and Lutterworth 

 turnpike the west, and Market Harboro', Lubenham, 

 Husbands Bosworth_, and Kimcote, points on the 

 southern limit. 



Leicester to Marhet Harhoro^ in fact, defines as well 

 as any fuller term the extent of the territory of late 

 years hunted by Mr. Tailby — Leicester being at one 

 extremity, Harboro' at the other, and the road be- 

 tween, straight as a ruler, cutting the country almost 

 exactly in half. 



Either of these places commands the country ; and 

 of the two it is not unfair to say that you are likely to 

 choose Market Harboro\ Leicester does not care 

 about you, for it has sources of wealth far more 

 extensive and deep rooted than the pockets of hunting 

 men, while Harboro' is glad enough to welcome you 

 to its comfortable hostelries and unlimited stabling. 

 The one has grown into a great manufacturing centre ; 

 the other still remains as Whyte Melville depicted it — 

 a neat little market town, owing all its position in 

 the world to its attractiveness as a hunting quarter. 

 Looked at even from this point of view, Harboro' has 

 had its ups-and-downs. At one time it rivalled Melton. 

 Oftentimes it has been a smaller Harboro'. But while 

 fox-hunting exists in the Midlands, there will always 

 be a strong staff of sportsmen gazetted to this most 



