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inner court floors should be bricked or flagged, and 

 sloping towards the centre like those of the lodging- 

 rooms ; and water, brought in by a leaden pipe, should 

 run through the channel in the middle. In the centre 

 of each court is a well sufficiently large to dip a bucket 

 in to clean the kennels : to keep it from wanting repair 

 it should be faced with stone. A wooden cover should 

 be fixed over the well of the feeding-yard. 



The benches, which must be open to let the urine 

 through, should have hinges and hooks in the wall, 

 that they may fold up when the kennel is washed ; 

 let them be made as low as possible, that when a 

 hound is tired he may have no difficulty in jumping 

 up, and at no time should the space under it be so 

 great that he will be able to creep under. 



A large bricked court in front, having a grass 

 court adjoining, and a brook running through the 

 middle of it, completes the kennel. This court should 

 be planted round, and also have some lime and horse- 

 chestnut trees near the centre for shade ; some posts, 

 bound round with galbanum, may be placed to prevent 

 the hounds urining against the trees. The brook may 

 be used as a cold bath for hounds lamed in the stifle 

 and strained. A high pale should enclose the whole, 

 which, to the height of four feet, should be close ; the 

 other open, two inches wide. At the back of the 

 kennel should be a thatched house, and fenced up at 

 the sides, to contain at least a load of straw ; a pit 

 for receiving the dung, and a gallows for the flesh. 

 If a piece of ground adjoining the kennel can be en- 

 closed for such dog-horses as may be brought alive, 

 it will be of great service, as the disorders of con- 

 demned horses are not always to be discovered, and 

 may be dangerous to others ; the hounds may also be 

 brought into this field to empty themselves after 



