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be eligible as property to be purchased for an inn or for small houses, 

 in the event of the hounds being removed to a different place. The 

 great drawback to subscribers finding a kennel for a master of hounds 

 offering to hunt a country would thus be remedied, as there would be 

 almost a certainty of persons who might be so liberally inclined as to 

 build one, being eventually repaid their outlay. The kennels of the 

 Pytchley Hunt at Brixworth were built by the joint contributions of four 

 gentlemen of fortune in Northamptonshire, which, with the paddocks 

 and stables, give each of them a vote for the division of the county in 

 wdiich they are situated, while the greater part of their property lies in 

 the other division. The general estimate of the expense of building a 

 kennel, as Mr. George Tattersall told me, may be easily made by multi- 

 plying the area occupied by the buildings by their average height ; and 

 that residt, divided by three, will give the simi in shillings, which sum 

 ought to include all fittings. 



