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should be done, and is determined to see that they are so 

 done. 



When the late Lord Suffield undertook to hunt the Quorn 

 country in 1838, his first act was to remove the hounds from 

 Thrussington, where Sir Harry Goodricke had quartered them 

 a few years previously, to their present kennels at Billesdon. 

 He consulted Mr. Smith (not Assheton, though also a * Tom ' 

 Smith), who was then showing good sport in the Craven country, 

 as he afterwards did in the Pytchley, on the economy both of 

 his kennels and stables, and in Mr. Smith's admirable little 

 book, ' Extracts from the Diary of a Huntsman,' which every 

 fox hunter ought to have by him, the results of the consultation 

 may be learned. The precise cost of the work is not stated, 

 but we are told it was ' less than half of a previous plan de- 

 signed by a first-rate architect,' which would, however, as Mr. 

 Smith candidly adds, have been 'a splendid building.' The 

 affairs of such a pack as the Quorn are of course conducted on 

 a larger and more liberal scale than every master of hounds 

 will either find possible or necessary. But for the interior 

 economy of a kennel, Mr. Smith's plan may well serve as a 

 model, those who use it of course making such modifications 

 as their wants and means will suggest. As the book has for 

 some years now been out of print, and copies, as we happen to 

 know, not very easy to get, we make bold to lay this plan 

 before them. 



