FOXHOUND AND HARRIER KENNELS, ETC. 213 



off into a drain. On each side of this passage there should be a 

 paved court with a small lodging-house at each end; one for 

 lame hounds, and the other for those which are sick. 



The ventilation of the rooms composing the lodgings of the 

 hounds must be carefully attended to, and for this purpose the 

 shaft shown at fig. 42 is especially well adapted. It resem- 

 bles in external appearance that usually placed above well-con- 

 structed stables, etc. ; but there is this important internal altera- 

 tion, that the square is divided perpendicularly into four triangu- 

 lar tubes, one of which is sure to be presented to the wind from 

 whatever quarter of the compass it is blowing, while the opposite 

 one allows the foul air to escape, to make room for that descend- 

 ing through the first-named tube. When this is once constructed, 

 it only remains to lead a metal tube from each of these four com- 

 partments to every one of the lodging-rooms, which will thus be 

 as effectually ventilated as if each had an apparatus to itself. To 

 carry this out well, the lodging-rooms should be in a block, 

 and then there will be a corner of each meeting in a common cen- 

 ter, above which the ventilator should be placed with the arrange- 

 ment of tubes above described. 



The kennel management of hounds is a much more difficult and 

 important affair than is generally supposed, as upon its proper 

 performance, in great measure, depends the obedience of the pack 

 in the field. Sometimes it is entirely committed to the care of the 

 feeder, but every huntsman who knows his business will take as 

 much pains with his hounds in kennel as out, and though he will 

 not, of course, prepare the food, yet he will take care to superin- 

 tend it, and will always " draw " his hounds himself, for no one 

 else can possibly know how to feed them. During the season, this 

 duty must of necessity devolve on the feeder or kennel-man on 

 the hunting days, but the huntsman should always carry it out 

 himself whenever he can. Hounds can not be too fond of their 

 huntsman, and though " cupboard love " is not to be encouraged 

 in man, yet it is at the bottom of most of that which is exhibited 

 by the dog, however much it may appear to take a higher range 

 when once it has been properly developed. 



