20 DUTIES OF THE KENNEL. 



lodging-room should then be cleaned out, the 

 doors and windows of it opened, the litter shaken 

 up, and that whole kennel made sweet and clean 

 before the hounds return to it again. The great 

 court and the other kennels are not less to be 

 attended to, nor should you pass over in silence 

 any omission that is hurtful to your hounds. 



The floor of each lodging-room should be 

 bricked, and sloped on both sides to run to the 

 centre, with a gutter left to carry off the water, 

 that when they are washed, they may be soon 

 dry. If water should stand through any fault 

 in the floor, it should be carefully mopped up ; 

 for as warmth is in the greatest degree necessary 

 to hounds after work, so damps are equally 

 prejudicial. You will think me, perhaps, too 

 particular in these directions; yet there can be 

 no harm in your knowing what your servants 

 ought to do ; as it is not impossible but it may 

 be sometimes necessary for you to see that it is 

 done. In your military profession you are per- 

 fectly acquainted with the dut}' of a common 

 soldier, and though you have no further business 

 with the minutiae of it, there is no doubt but 

 you still find the knowledge of them useful to 

 you : believe me, they may be useful here ; and 

 you will pardon me, I hope, if I wish to see 



