CHAPTER IV 



RUGBY, LEICESTER, NORTHAMPTON AND GRANTHAM 



Advantages of Rugby — Its Train Service and Polo — Choice of 

 Packs— Three days a week sure — Monday with Mr. Fernie's, 

 with the Pytchley, or with the Atherstone — Tuesday with 

 Mr. Fernie or with the Quorn — Wednesday with the Pytchley 

 — Thursday and Friday with the Warwickshire Packs or 

 Atherstone — Stiff Fences — Difificult Country — Nimrod's Story 

 — Reasons for choosing Rugby — Leamington — Advantages of 

 Hunting — The Epwell Hunt Poem — Leicester and Northamp- 

 ton — Tom Firr — His last Fall — Tuesday with the Quorn — 

 Hotels and Inns — Freedom of the Midlands — Grantham — 

 The Blankney and Southwold — The Belvoir — Horses required 

 — Grantham a Sporting Town — Lincolnshire Huntsmen — 

 A Hard Country — Will Wells — Character of Country round 

 Grantham — Colonel Fane's Busy Day — Mr. Vickerman's 

 Diary again quoted— Captain Micklethwaite — Folkingham — 

 Two Great Runs in 1895 — Studying the work of the Belvoir 

 Hounds. 



I. Rugby. 



Rugby is another town which has great attractions 

 for a man who hkes polo as well as hunting, and 

 commends itself as an all the year round residence. 

 It is not in itself, apart from its famous school, its 

 hunting, its polo, and the fact that it has a splendid 

 railway service, a very attractive town. But the 

 neighbourhood and the suburbs are delightful, and it 

 is a centre rather to take a house near than to stay 

 at as a chance visitor. On the other hand, there is 



no better place, on account of the North-Westem 



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