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plentifully sprinkled with white hound hairs, 

 would give him away, for all his angelic expres 

 sion ! Blaze and Scout both attempted to use the 

 chairs, but both were headed off in early infancy. 

 The thing to do is to provide a thick mat of, say, 

 three inches of cotton batting loosely quilted, the 

 facing being gray flannel. Such a mat should be 

 at least two feet by three feet in area (22 by 30 

 inches will do for a pup or a small dog like a 

 spaniel or beagle), and can be dusted, aired and 

 sunned, or sprayed with flea disinfectant, and is 

 put away in some closet during the daytime. Dur 

 ing the evening your dogs will lie on the rugs be 

 fore the big log fire, but the floor is never a really 

 comfortable sleeping place, besides being draughty 

 and conducive to rheumatism. It will answer un 

 til you go to bed, but, if you have provided no 

 mats, just see how long it will take those dogs to 

 appropriate the chairs, once you are well asleep ! 

 For a kennel, a packing-box 20 by 24 by 32 

 inches will stand you 50 cents at the shoe store, 

 and you are to erect a pair of roof rafters at each 

 end and nail to them on each side a roof made of 

 two boards of rough 1 by 12-inch hemlock four 

 feet long, four boards in all. The gable ends are 

 filled with the erstwhile top boards of your pack- 

 ; ,ag-box, the rear gable being hinged so as to make 



