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it inflicted upon the poor dog, when the wind hap 

 pens to be blowing into the month of the kennel! 

 Put in a curtain with a sanded hem, how long will 

 it stay there, and how soon will it be repaired 

 when once rent and torn? Those dark dirty cor 

 ners, unreachable to clean properly, forever un- 

 visited by the sun's germ-killing rays, forever a 

 breeding place for hordes of fleas how many 

 dead and miserable pets are chargeable to them 

 alone ! And once Fido learns that his kennel is a 

 place to which he can bolt to escape punishment, 

 from which he can neither be dislodged nor 

 coaxed, how long can you maintain discipline over 

 him! And then in summer did you ever try to 

 sleep in a closed tent in midsummer, with a small 

 door the only opening! recall it, once, and then 

 picture to yourself what a suffocating hot-box that 

 kennel is and will be, far into a hot summer night ! 

 No ; we must give our kennel far more thought 

 than that. It costs just the same in boards, nails, 

 time and tar paper to build a rotten kennel as to 

 build a fine, sanitary, sensible one, wherefore, in 

 the name of common sense, let's have a good one! 

 Did it ever occur to you to turn the kennel side 

 ways, close up the ends tight, and put the door in 

 the side, at one end, as a possible improvement? 

 If your bed is around the corner, as it were, there 



