THE PYTCHLEY KENNELS AT BRIXWORTH. 55 



kennel is attended with a very great expense and 

 , frequently with a very considerable sacrifice, as after 

 a few years in many instances, from unforeseen events, 

 it becomes useless for the purpose for which it was 

 intended; if a hunt committee are about building one 

 by subscription, care should be taken to select such 

 a situation, that it may be eligible as property to be 

 purchased for an inn or for small houses in the event 

 of the hounds being removed to a different place. The 

 great drawbrack to subscribers finding a kennel for a 

 master of hounds, offering to hunt a country, would 

 thus be remedied; as there would be almost a cer- 

 tainty of persons who might be so liberally inclined 

 as to build one, being eventually repaid their outlay. 

 The kennels of the Pytchley hunt at Brixworth, were 

 built by the joint contributions of four gentlemen of 

 fortune in Northamptonshire, which, with the paddocks 

 and stables, give each of them a vote for the division 

 of the county in which they are situated, while the 

 greater part of their property lies in the other 

 division. I fear my readers have, by this time, become 

 heartily tired of following me through the different 

 court-yards and lodging-rooms if they are also hungry, 

 they will find wherewith to appease their appetites 

 in the next chapter. 



