2jO TJie Pytchley Htmt, Past and Presc7it. 



NORTHAMPTON BRIGADE . 



MR. WHITWORTH, SEN., AND DR. DODD. 



l^EOM time immemorial, the County-Town has supplied 

 its quota of followers of the Pytchley, Grafton, and Oakley 

 Hounds, with the first for choice. Without going back 

 to the days of old when the first Mr. Whitworth used to 

 appear at the near home-meets, and trot about on his 

 short-tailed horse, with three or four fellow-townsmen of 

 the same age and habits as himself, we may mention, as 

 amongst the most remarkable of Northampton sports- 

 men, that Dr. Dodd, whose ungainly form may still 

 be remembered by some of the citizens of the ancient 

 borough of St. Crispin. Long in face, long in back, 

 and with lower extremities to match, this worthy 

 son of ^sculapius was one of those who had few 

 pleasures in life except hunting ; and who, bidding 

 defiance to the drawbacks of weight, and nags of 

 inferior quality, always contrived to forge ahead during 

 a run, and earned for himself the reputation of being a 

 ** wonderful man to hounds." 



On a plain, light-ribbed, three-cornered chestnut mare, 

 he was pretty sure to be in front of many a better 

 mounted man ; affording another proof that it is the 

 '^ heart " and not the *' horse '^ that is the '^ one thing 

 needful " in making your way across country. 



The Hon. C. Gust, thinking more of performance than 



