54 Otters and Otter-Hunting. 



however, it Is seldom that the requirements of a 

 pack of Otter-hounds are provided for in these 

 ready-designed and ready-made kennels. Within 

 the compass of a reasonable size and a moderate 

 price it has hitherto not been possible to secure 

 a room for the kennelman, a store-room, boiling- 

 house, hospital-kennel, bitch-room, and puppy-run. 



The illustration (Fig. i) shows the ground- 

 plan of kennels that shall combine all these requi- 

 sites in one building. It is the result of personal 

 experience of what is really required in kennels for 

 Otter-hounds, and the design having been sub- 

 mitted to Messrs. Boulton and Paul, of Norwich, a 

 firm pre-eminent in this class of work, they have 

 arranged to supply kennels to this plan, pre- 

 senting the outward appearance when erected 

 shown in Fig. 2, for the exceedingly reasonable 

 (approximate) price of ;£iio. 



A glance at the plan shows two fair-sized lodging- 

 rooms with runs, a bitch-room on the principle of 

 the bitch- and puppy-houses recommended in the 

 '' Badminton " volume on " Hunting," with a good 

 feeding-room, isolated sick-room, boiling-house 

 with store-room adjacent, and a man's room, suffi- 

 ciently large to serve as a sleeping apartment, all 

 under the same roof, the whole structure, yards in- 

 cluded, occupying a space of nearly 1,100 square 

 feet. 



