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to your own tafle. Ufelefs expence I fliould not 

 recommend; yet, as I fuppole you will often make 

 it a vilit, at leaft in the hunting feaibn, I could 

 wifh it might have neatnefs without, as well as 

 cleanlinefs within, the more to allure you to it ; 

 I fhould for the fame reafon wifh it to be as near 

 to your houfe as you will give it leave. I know 

 there are many objedtions to its being very near; 

 I forefee ftill more to its being at a diflance: 

 there is a vulgar faying, that it is the mailer's eye 

 that makes the horfe fat ; I can affure you it is 

 even more necefiary in the kennel, v/here clean- 

 linefs is not lefs effential than food. 



There are, I make no doubt, many better 

 kennels than mine, feme of which you fhould 

 fee before you begin to build ; you can but make 

 ufe of my plan in cafe that you like no other 

 better. If, in the mean time, I am to give you 

 my opinion what a kennel ought to be, I mufl 

 fend you a defcription of my own, for I have 

 not feen many others. 



I would advife you to make it large enough at 

 firft, as any addition afterwards muft fpoil the 

 appearance of it. I have been obliged to add to 

 mine, which was built from a plan of my own, 

 and intended, at firft, for a pack of beagles. My 

 feeding-yard being too fmall, I will endeavour to 

 remedy that defed in the defcription I fend you, 



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