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aforesaid, and when Mr. Tailby's fame filled every 

 corner of the Harborough district, when more men 

 lived at hotels for the hunting season than do so now. 

 Yet nowadays there are some country inns where at 

 less cost than at Harborough a man may live for a 

 month or two, and these might well suit the con- 

 venience and pockets of soldiers on leave. Such are 

 the " Rose and Crown " at Kibworth, where, with a 

 friend from the Colonies, I once spent a very happy 

 five weeks, the " Black Horse " at Billesdon and the 

 " Black Horse " at Foxton, where a soldier friend of 

 my own lived pleasantly for a short time a year or 

 two back. Everywhere the stabling is good, and 

 there are doubtless many other inns as suitable as 

 those I have mentioned. 



But to return to Market Harborough. I have 

 already written of its convenience for men who have 

 other occupations, and in this matter I speak from 

 some personal experience that for busy men there is 

 less wear and tear in living where you hunt and going 

 up to town as the occasion arises. If Market Har- 

 borough, then, be the centre chosen, it is possible 

 to leave town on Friday evening, to hunt with Mr. 

 Fernie's or the Pytchley on Saturday and with Mr. 

 Fernie on the Monday, and return to town on Monday 

 evening. Then you can come down again after busi- 

 ness on Wednesday and hunt on Thursday, once 

 more with Mr. Fernie in his best country, and, going 

 up to town again that night, have a whole day for 

 work on Friday. Even if only two days, Friday and 

 Saturday or Saturday and Monday, are possible, it 

 is worth the extra length of journey to hunt on the 

 grass. I have hunted from town and thus may claim 

 to know, for I have tried several hunts, the Surrey 

 Union, the Essex, the Duke of Beaufort's and the 



