668 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 



Such as Somerville directs may be the situation ; its 

 size must be suited to the number of its inhabitants ; 

 the architecture of it may be conformable to your own 

 taste. 



" However deserving your confidence, still it should 

 be the care of the master to see the state of the kennel 

 frequently. Two kennels are absolutely necessary to 

 the well-being of the hounds : when there is but one, 

 it is seldom sweet ; and when cleaned out, the hounds, 

 particularly in winter, suffer both whilst it is cleaning, 

 and as long as it remains wet afterwards. To be 

 more clearly understood, I shall call one of these the 

 hunting-kennel, by which I mean, that kennel into 

 which the hounds are drafted which are to hunt the 

 next day. 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 shepherd 

 counts his sheep out of the fold. 



** When the feeder comes to the kennel in the 

 morning, he should let out the hounds into the outer 

 court, at the same time opening the door of the 

 hunting-kennel, as want of rest, or bad weather, may 

 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 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 any omission 

 that is hurtful to the hounds be passed over in silence. 



"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 of the floor, it should 



