CHAPTER XX 



HOW THE KENNEL FOR THE HOUNDS AND THE 

 COUPLES FOR THE RACHES AND THE ROPES 

 FOR THE LYMER SHOULD BE MADE 



The hounds' kennel should be ten fathoms in 

 length and five in breadth, if there be many hounds. 

 And there should be one door in front and one 

 behind, and a fair green, where the sun shineth all 

 day from morning till eve, and that green should 

 be closed about with a paling or with a wall of 

 earth or of stone of the same length and breadth 

 as the hounds' kennel is. And the hinder door of 

 the kennel should always be open so that the 

 hounds may go out to play when they like, for it 

 is a great liking to the hounds when they may 

 go in and out at their pleasure, for the mange 

 comes to them later. 1 In the kennel should be 

 pitched small stones wrapped about with straw 

 of the hounds' litter, unto the number of six 

 stones, that the hounds might piss against them. 

 Also a kennel should have a gutter or two where- 

 by all the piss of the hounds and all the other 



1 They are not likely to get the mange so soon. 

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