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enough away from the centre of the town not to be 

 either a nuisance or an eyesore. Let us suppose that 

 you desire to combine business with pleasure and 

 we will see how it can be done. After a day on the 

 Stock Exchange, let us say, you catch the 5.40 p.m. 

 from St. Pancras and reach Harborough at 7.35. Or, 

 if you prefer it, you can dine at your club and come 

 down by the 8.30, or again you can leave Euston at 

 7 and dine in the train and be in Harborough before 

 10 P.M. Thus the traveller can go to bed in good 

 time, a very necessary thing for a hunting man to 

 do, for he who keeps early hours keeps his nerve. 

 The London & North-Western gives a rather longer 

 journey owing to the change at Northampton. If, 

 however, you travel by daylight you will not so much 

 grudge the extra time for the sake of the very sport- 

 ing country the line runs through. The very names 

 of the stations, Clipston, Oxendon and Lamport, are 

 full of hunting associations. 



Nor are these all the advantages of Market Har- 

 borough, for the branch lines are well contrived and 

 the trains so arranged as to make convenient covert 

 hacks. For instance, the line which runs through 

 Welford and Lutterworth to Rugby commands all 

 the famous Pytchley Wednesday country, and here 

 again the names on the station boards are suggestive 

 of hunting. Welford, North Kilworth, Yelvertoft, 

 Crick and Lilbourne tell of past gallops, and, if you 

 are going a-hunting, promise sport to come. Not less 

 attractive is the line on to Tilton, where the station 

 is full of horse-boxes from Melton and Market Har- 

 borough on a Tuesday, when men from both places 

 are bent on hunting with the Cottesmore in their 

 Tuesday country, of which much has been written 

 above. On these lines specials are often run in the 



