CHAPTER VI. 



KENNELS AND HOUND-VANS. 



Kennels for Otter-hounds need not be so capacious 

 nor so expensive to build as those for packs of 

 fox-hounds or harriers, though they will have to be 

 larger, and consequently to cost more, than kennels 

 for the accommodation of beagles. 



As in the case of the latter, there are usually no 

 funds with which to erect costly and ornamental 

 kennels ; at the same time, things are not, or should 

 not usually be, so bad that it is necessary to adapt 

 some tumble- down farm-buildings to the purposes 

 of hound-kennels. This proceeding is really a 

 waste of money, as yards and floors have to be 

 concreted and drained the same as for proper 

 kennels ; benches and boilers have to be installed, 

 and railings fixed. When the lease runs out or 

 it becomes advisable to move the kennels to another 

 locality the labour of dismantling and removing 

 these fixtures is not worth the expense ; while if the 

 hounds are given up for any reason the fittings 

 fetch next to nothing, and all the money spent on 



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