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very moderate terms. Excellent stabling is procurable 

 at Walker's^ where tbere is a large range of loose boxes, 

 situate within two or three minutes of The George ; 

 at which hotel every comfort and convenience is to be 

 obtained — capital suites of well-furnished apartments, 

 an excellent cuisine, and a well-stocked cellar. There 

 is also the mess which is established there, to which I 

 have alluded, and the certainty of having everything 

 done to make your residence comfortable. Then if 

 you are known to any of the members there is the 

 club, with its reading, smoking, and billiard rooms, 

 where you can while away the time very gaily between 

 your return from hunting and the dinner-hour, and in 

 the evening you will find an opportunity of joining in 

 the very pleasant society assembled there. By the 

 aid of the railway, you can hunt every day, reaching 

 Mr. Tailby^s hounds as well as the other three crack 

 packs I have enumerated. The town itself is a very 

 cheerful and healthy place for a residence, with plenty 

 of excellent sliops, a capital library, and all the ac- 

 cessories necessary to make things agreeable. I think, 

 therefore, that anyone seeking hunting quarters, may 

 go farther and fare worse than at Rugby. The absence 

 of the noble master of the Pytchley — Earl Spencer — 

 is a subject of great regret to all hunting with this 

 pack, his lordship having, in consequence of a domes- 

 tic affliction, been residing for a while on the Conti- 

 nent ; but it is expected that he will return to his 

 post at the commencement of the New Year. There 

 is no better or more popular and esteemed master of 

 hounds in England than the noble Earl, or one who 

 keeps his ^^ field ^^ in better order, which is, by the 

 way, the only mode of showing sport. Sportsmen, 



