HUNTING TOURS. 17 



CHAPTER II. 



THE ATHERSTONE COUNTRY AND LORD 

 CURZON'S HOUNDS. 



Immediately adjoining the Quorn, on the 

 eastern boundary, this hunt may be con- 

 sistently included in the same category, re- 

 joicing in the velvet pastures of Leicestershire, 

 in which county nearly a moiety of it is 

 situated, the remaining portion being in War- 

 wickshire, and a small slice in Staffordshire. 

 Ashby de la Zouch represents the northern 

 limit, where Mr. Meynell Ingram's country 

 joins. Coventry is the extreme southern 

 point, up to which the North Warwickshire 

 hounds send forth their cheering notes, and 

 then extending eastwards towards Lutter- 

 worth, beyond that town the Pytchley exer- 

 cise their prerogative. On the west, Sutton 

 Coldfield and Lichfield form the extremity, 

 and further westward is a narrow tract, that 

 has been for many years unoccupied, known 



