SiiO THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



I alfo wifli that, contrary to the ufual pra^bice 

 in building kennels, you would have three doors; 

 two in the front, and one in the back ; the laft to 

 have a lattice-window in it, with a wooden fhut- 

 ter, which is conftantly to be kept clofed when 

 the hounds are in, except in fummcr, when it 

 fhould be left open all the day. This door an- 

 fwers two very neceffary pur]>ofes : it gives an 

 opportunity of carrying out the flraw when the 

 lodging-room is cleaned, and as it is oppofite ta 

 the window, will be a means to let in a tho- 

 rough air, which will greatly contribute to keep 

 it fweet and wholefomc. The other doors will 

 be of ufe in drying the room, when the hounds 

 are out ; and as one is to be kept fhut, and the 

 other hooked back, (allowing juft room for a dog 

 to pafs) they are not liable to any objection. 

 The great window in the centre fliould have a 

 folding-flmtter ; half, or the whole of which, 

 fnay be fhut at nights, according to the weather j 

 and your kennels by that means may be kept 

 warm or cool, jufl as you pleafe to have them. 

 The two great lodging-rooms are exadly alike, 

 and as each has a court belonging to it, are dif- 

 tin6l kennels, lituated at the oppolite ends of the 

 building ; in the centre of which is the boiling- 

 houfe and feeding-yard ; and on each tide a lefler 

 kennel, either for hounds that are drafted ofF,- 

 hounds that are Hck or lame, or for any other 

 purpofe, as occalion may require. At the back 



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