THE KENXEL. - GST 



the back of which, as they are but half the deptli of the two 

 larger kennels, are places for coals, &c., for the use of the 

 kennel. There is also a small building in the rear for the 

 accommodation of bitches in heat The 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 ad- 

 joining, and a brook running through the middle of it, com- 

 pletes 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 inclose 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 enclosed for such dog-horses as may be brought 

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



