THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 3^ 



to hunt the next day, are drafted. Used always to the same 

 kennel, they will be drafted with little trouble ; they will 

 answer to their names more readily ; and you may count 

 your hounds into the kennel with as much ease as a shep- 

 herd counts his sheep out of the fold. 



When the feeder first comes to the kennel in a morn- 

 ing, he should let out the hounds into the outer court ; 

 ■ :^nd, ia bad weather, he should open the door of the hunt- 

 ing kennel, lest want of rest should incline them to go 

 into it. The lodging-room should then be cleaned out, 

 the doors and windows of it opened, the litter shaken up, 

 and the kennel made sweet i^nd clean, before the hounds 

 return to it again. The great court, and the other ken- 

 nels, 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 remain, through any 



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