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gives an opportunity of carrying out the straw when 

 the lodging-room is' cleaned, and as it is opposite to 

 the window, \vill be the means to let in a thorough 

 air, which will greatly contribute to the keeping of 

 it sweet and wholesome. The other doors will be 

 of use in drying the room, when the hounds aie 

 out; and as one is to be kept shut, and the other 

 hooked back (allowing just room for a dog to pass), 

 tiiey are not hable to any objection. The great 

 window in the centre should have a folding shutter ; 

 half or the whole of which may be shut at nights, 

 according to the v/eather ; and the kennels by that 

 means may be kept warm or cool.' 



The two lodging rooms here described are at the 

 opposite sides of the building; in the centre of 

 which are the boiling-house and feeding-yard : and 

 on eacli side a lesser kennel, either for hounds that 

 are drafted off, hounds that are sick or lame, or for 

 any other purposes, as occasion may require ; at the 

 back of which, as they are but half the depth of the 

 two great kennels, are places for coals, kc. for the 

 use of the kennel. There is also a small building in 

 the rear for hot bitches. The floors of the inner 

 courts, like to those of the lodging-rooms, are brick- 

 ed, and sloped to run to the centre ; and a channel 

 of water brought in by a leaden pipe, runs through 

 the middle of them. In the centre of each court is 

 a well, large enough to dip a bucket to clean the 

 kennels, this must be faced with stone, or it will be 

 often out of repair. In the feeding-yard there 

 should be a wooden cover. 



The benches, which must be open to let the urine 

 through, should have hinges and hooks in the wall, 

 that they may fold up for the greater convenience 

 of washing out the kennel ; and they should be 

 made as low as possible, that a tired hound may 

 have no difficulty in jumping up : be it also ob- 

 served that the boiler should be of cast-iron. 



