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no animal is more grateful for kindness than a hound ; the peculiarities of 

 his temper will soon be learned, and when he begins to love his master, he 

 will mind, from his natural and acquired affection, a word or a frown from 

 him more than the blows of all the whips that were ever put into the hands 

 of the keepers. 



The distemper having passed, and the young hounds being in good health, 

 they should be walked out every day, and taught to follow the horse, with a 

 keeper who is selected as a kind and quiet person, and will bear their occa- 

 sionally entangling themselves in their couples. They are then taken to 

 the public roads, and there exercised, and checked from riot, but with as 

 little severity as possible ; a frequent and free use of the whip never being 

 allowed. No animals take their character from their master so much as 

 the hounds do from theirs. If he is wild, or noisy, or nervous, so will his 

 hounds be ; if he is steady and quick, the pack will be the same. The 

 whip should never be applied but for some immediate and decided fault. 

 A rate given at an improper time does more harm than good : it disgusts 

 the honest hound, it shies and prevents from hunting the timid one, and 

 it is treated with contempt by those of another character who may at some 

 future time deserve it. It formerly was the custom, and still is too much 

 so, when a hound has hung on a hare, to catch him when he comes up, and 

 flog him. The consequence of this is, that he takes good care the next 

 time he indulges in a fault not to come out of cover at all. 



We will conclude this part of our subject by a short account of the 

 splendid kennel at Goodwood, for which we are indebted to Lord W. 

 Lennox, with the kind permission of the Duke of Richmond. It 

 is described as one of the most complete establishments of the kind in 

 England. The original establishment of this building, although a little 

 faulty, possesses considerable interest from its errors being corrected by 

 the third Duke of Richmond, a man who is acknowledged to have been 

 one of the most popular public characters of the day, and who in more 

 private life extended his patronage to all that was truly honourable. 

 It was to the Duke's support of native talent that we may trace the origin 

 of the present Royal Academy. In 1758, the Duke of Richmond dis- 

 played, at his residence in Whitehall, a large collection of original plaster 

 casts, taken from the finest statues and busts of the ancient sculptors. 

 Every artist was freely admitted to this exhibition ; and, for the further en- 

 couragement of talent, he bestowed two medals annually on such as had 

 exhibited the best models. 



We have thus digressed in order to give a slight sketch of the nobleman 

 by whom this kennel was built, and we do not think that we can do better 

 than lay before our readers the original account of it. 



Early in life the Duke built what was not then common, a tennis-court, 

 and what was more uncommon, a dog-kennel, which cost him above 

 6000/. The Duke was his own architect, assisted by, and under the 

 guidance of, Mr. Wyatt ; he dug his own flints, burnt his own lime, and 

 conducted the wood- work in his own shops. The result of his labours was 

 the noble building of which a plan is here given. 



The dog-kennel is a grand object when viewed from Goodwood. The 

 front is handsome, the ground well raised about it, and the general effect 

 good ; the open court in the centre adds materially to the noble appear- 

 ance of the building. 



The entrance to the kennel is delineated in the centre with a flight of 



