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the hounds are drafted which are to hunt the next 

 day. Used always to the same kennel, they will 

 be drafted with little trouble; they will answer to 

 their names more readily, and you may count your 

 hounds into the kennel with as much ease as a shep- 

 herd counts his sheep out of the fold, 



' When the feeder first comes to the kennel in a 

 morning, he should let out the hounds into the 

 outer court ; at the same time opening the door of 

 the hunting-kennel, lest want of rest, or bad wea- 

 ther, should incline them to go into it. The lodg- 

 ing-room should then be cleaned out, the doors and 

 windows of it opened, the litter shaken up, and the 

 whole kennel made sweet and clean before the 

 hounds return to it again, The great court and the 

 other kennels are not less to be attended to, nor 

 should any omission that is hurtful to the hounds 

 be passed over in silence. 



' The floor of each lodging-room should be bricks 

 ed, and sloped on both sides, to run to the centre, 

 with a gutter left to cany off the water, that when 

 they are washed they may be soon dry. If water 

 should stand through any fault in the floor, it should 

 be carefully mopped up, for as warmth is in the 

 greatest degree necessary to hounds after work, so 

 damps are equally prejudicial.' 



It will be sometimes necessary for the master to 

 see that his work is done; and equally necessary to 

 be able to give his directions. ' Orders given with- 

 out skill are seldom well obeyed, and where the 

 master is either ignorant or inattentive, the servant 

 will be idle.' 



^Contrary to the usual practice in building ken- 

 nels, there should be three doors : two in the front, 

 and one in the back ; the last to have a lattice- win- 

 dow in it, with a wooden shutter, which is constantly 

 to be kept close when the hounds are in, except in 

 summer, v,'hen it should be left open all the day. 

 This door answers two very necessary purposes ; it 



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