102 A HUNTING CATECHISM 



well, sometimes miles away in a bare country far 

 from a covert of any description. One person 

 alone should have charge of them, and be 

 empowered to bolt the foxes from time to time 

 to teach them to leave at once when the hounds 

 are there, so that there is then no wearisome wait 

 while the terrier is baying the fox. 



The wooden box forming the kennel should be 

 the size and shape of an ordinary hearthrug, 

 about five feet long by three broad. It must not 

 be 7nore than fifteen inches high — so that a fox 

 cannot sit up inside it and foul it. A little dry 

 sand may be scattered over the bottom to facilitate 

 cleansing it. 



The top of the box should be about two feet 

 under ground. There must be a slight fall given 

 to the pipes from the box. There may be a false 

 bottom to the box, with rope handles to it, so 

 that it can be easily lifted out if necessary at the 

 annual inspection, and cleansed. 



The pipes should open into the box from 

 opposite ends of one of the long sides, so that 

 if a terrier should stop and bay at one entrance 

 the fox can bolt without having to pass the dog, 

 which it would have to do if the apertures were 

 close together. They must not, however, be 

 exactly opposite each other, lest they act like a 

 chimney, and create a draught. By keeping 

 them at each end of one of the long sides a 

 large space is formed free of draught, to make 

 a sleeping chamber. 



The boards forming the lid must go on length- 

 ways of the box, so that when the board covering 

 the two entrances of the pipes is lifted off these 

 will be at once exposed. This board should be 

 left loose, but the others may be nailed down. 



