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middle, with which they all communicate. These are filled with 

 benches separated by low partitions as shown in the diagram, 

 and raised about a foot from the ground. Each opens into a yard, 

 with a door of communication so arranged as to be left partly open 

 without allowing the slightest draught to blow upon tJie beds. 

 These yards, ab, be, cd, da^ are all roofed in, and bounded on the 

 outer side by pickets guarded by coarse wire net, to prevent the 

 teeth of the inmates gnawing them. They are separated by narrow 

 partitions, which slide up to allow of the dogs having the whole 



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run; or they may be left down, and the upper part open, so as to 

 encourage the puppies to fence, by the necessity for jumping over 

 them, in pursuing one another. The floors should be of glazed 

 tiles, bricks, or cement, the last being the most clean and free 

 from absorption, which ought always to be entirely prevented. 

 Each sleeping-place and yard should have a trapped drain, so as to 

 carry oflf any wet directly it falls, and the former should be built 

 exteriorly of brick cemented at least a foot from the ground, with 

 board partitions between. A window should be in each, which 

 is capable of being opcncl, and tlie vcntllatior. should be secured 



