686 MAXUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



" The floor of each lodging-room should be bricked, and 

 sloped on both sides, to run to the centre, with a gutter left 

 to carry off the water, that when they are washed they may 

 be soon dry. If water should stand through any fault of 

 the floor, it should be carefully mopped up, for as warmth is 

 in the greatest degree necessary after work, so damps are 

 equally prejudicial. Orders given without skill are seldom 

 well obeyed ; and when the master is either ignorant or in- 

 attentive, the servants will be idle. 



" Contrary to the usual practice in building kennels, there 

 should be three doors, two in the front, and one in the back ; 

 the last to have a lattice window in it, with a wooden shut- 

 ter, which is constantly to be kept close when the hounds 

 are in, except in summer, when it should be left open all 

 day. This door answers two very necessary purposes : it 

 gives an opportunity of carrying out the straw when the 

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

 will be the means to let in a thorough air, w^hich will gi^eatly 

 contribute to the keeping it sweet and wholesome. The 

 other doors will be of use in drying the rooms, when the 

 liounds are out ; and as one is to be kept shut, and the others 

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

 not liable to any objection. The great window, in the 

 centre, should have a folding shutter ; half or the whole of 

 which may be closed at nights, according to the weather ; 

 and the kennels by that means may be kept warm or 

 cool." 



The two great lodging-rooms are exactly similar, and 

 having a court belonging to each, are distinct kennels, situ- 

 ate at opposite ends of the building. In the centre is the 

 boiling-house, and feeding-yard ; a lesser kennel, either for 

 hounds that are drafted off, and those that are sick and 

 lame, or for any other required purpose, is on each side ; at 



