22 INTERIOR OF THE KENNEL. 



ing-rooms are exactly alike, and as each has a 

 court belonging to it, are distinct kennels, and 

 are at the opposite ends of the building ; in the 

 centre of which is the boiling-house, and feed- 

 ing-yard ; and on each side a lesser kennel, 

 either for hounds that are drafted off; hounds 

 that are sick, or lame ; or for any other pur- 

 poses, as occasion may require : at the back of 

 which, as they are but half the depth of the two 

 great kennels, are places for coals, &c. for the 

 use of the kennel. There is also a small build- 

 ing in the rear for hot bitches. The plan will 

 show you the size of the whole. The floors of 

 the inner courts, like to those of the lodging- 

 rooms, are bricked and sloped to run to the 

 centre ; and a channel of water, brought in by 

 a leaden pipe, runs through the middle of them. 

 In the centre of each court is a well, large 

 enough to dip a bucket, to clean the kennels : 

 this must be faced with stone, or it will be often 

 out of repair. In the feeding-yard, you must 

 have a wooden cover. 



The benches, which must be open, to let the 

 urine through, should have hinges and hooks in 

 the wall, that they may fold up, for the greater 

 convenience of washing out the kennel ; and they 

 should be made as low as possible, that a tired 



