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water may run out that none remains in the kennel. 

 The kennel should also be in a low house, and not 

 in a solere (an upper chamber), but there should 

 be a loft above, so that it might be warmer in 

 winter and cooler in summer, and always by night 

 and by day I would that some child lie or be in 

 the kennel with the hounds to keep them from 

 fighting. Also in the kennel should be a chimney 

 to warm the hounds when they are cold or when 

 they are wet with rain or from passing and swim- 

 ming over rivers. And also he should be taught 

 to spin horse hair to make couples for the hounds, 

 which should be made of a horse tail or a mare's 

 tail, for they are best and last longer than if they 

 were of hemp or of wool. And the length of the 

 hounds' couples between the hounds should be a 

 foot, and the rope of a limer three fathoms and 

 a half, be he ever so wise a limer it sufficeth. 

 The which rope should be made of leather of a horse 

 skin well tawed. 



