HUNTING DIRECTORY. 29 



Interior of the Kennel. 



other purposes, as occasion may require. At the back 

 of which, as they are but half the depth of the two great 

 kennels, are places for coals, &c. for the use of the kennel. 

 There is also a small building in the rear for hot bitches. 

 The floors of the inner courts, like to those of the lodging- 

 rooms, are bricked and sloped to run to the centre, and 

 a channel of water, brought in by a leaden pipe, runs 

 through the middle of them. In the centre of each court 

 is a well, large enough to dip a bucket to clean the ken- 

 nels ; this must be faced with stone, or it will be often 

 out of repair. In the feeding-yard, you must have a 

 wooden cover. 



'*The benches, which must be open to let the urine 

 through, shovdd have hinges and hooks in the wall, that 

 they may fold up, for the greater convenience of washing 

 out the kennel ; and they should be made as low as pos- 

 sible, that a tired hovmd may have no difficulty in jmnping 

 up ; let me add, that the boiler should be of cast-iron. 



*' The rest of the kennel consists of a large court in 

 front, which is also bricked, having a grass-court adjoin- 

 ing, and a little brook running through the middle of it. 

 The earth which was taken out of it, is thrown up into 

 a mount, where the hounds in summer delight to sit. 

 This court is planted round with trees, and has besides 

 a lime tree, and some horse chesnut trees near the middle 

 of it, for the sake of shade. A high pale incloses the 

 whole ; part of which, to the height of about four feet, 

 is close ; the other open : tlie intex'stices are about two 

 inches wide. The grass-court is pitched (paved) near 

 the pale, to prevent the hounds from scratching out. 



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