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CHAPTER II. 



THE KENNEL. 

 " It proceeded from tbe nature of the vapourish place." — Sandys. 



MR. WHITES OPINION OF TREES. — PLAN FOR ERECTING A KENNEL. — WM. 

 smith's OPINION OF LETTING HOUNDS LIE OUT IN THE COUP.TS — SHUT- 

 TING UP HOUNDS BY THEMSELVES. — REMARKS ON KENNEL LAMENESS. — 



RATS IN KENNELS. A DOE KEPT IN MR. WARDE's KENNEL. COL. 



cook's OPINION. — LAMENESS IN THE ALBRICHTON HOUNDS. — Sill T. 

 BOUGHEy's HOUNDS- — MR. FOLJAMBe's OPINION ON LAMENESS. — LORD 



KINTORe's hounds. BEES IN THE DUKE OF NASSAU's KENNEL. — DICK 



KNIGHT AND THE KENNELS AT BRIGSTOCK THE HOLDERNESS KENNELS 



AT BISHOP BURTON. ON WASHING HOUNDS. JACK WOOd's OPINION. 



WHITE-WASHING KENNELS, AND AIRING THEM WITH FLUES. — DAMP 

 PRODUCES THE YELLOWS AND DISTEMPER. — THE PYTCHLEY KENNELS AT 

 BRIXWORTH. 



It is no less curious than true, that although there is 

 one point on which all authors are agreed in erecting a 

 kennel, namely that it is to be on a healthy spot, yet 

 a true description of what is really a proper situation, 

 has never been given; one recommends it to be built 

 on high ground, while another declares that it is 

 impossible to have the place kept sweet and clean 

 without a stream of water running through it ; it has 

 also been advised to have it shaded by trees, as if the 

 all cheering rays of the sun were not the chief means 

 of drying the courts, and dissipating those noxious 

 vapours which invariably attend the keeping together 



