22 OBSERVATIONS ON FOX-HUNTING 



them of great service, he thought the hounds 

 recovered themselves, and were fit to come out 

 again much sooner in consequence of the warmth 

 arising from them. 



Very few masters of Fox-hounds can afford to 

 build so magnificent a kennel ; but it is my 

 opinion your hounds may be equally well lodged 

 in one that may not have cost so large a sum. 

 The kennel at Puckcridge in Hertfordshire, which 

 cost about £500 building, is Aery convenient, dry, 

 and healthy, and the hounds have no lameness. 

 The Hampshire Hunt kennel also cost only a 

 few hundreds, and is as good a one and as con- 

 venient as a master of hounds could wish for. 

 The hounds that inhabit these kennels are very 

 sizable, and do their work Avell in the field, and 

 hunt as Fox-hounds should do. Before you begin 

 to build your kennel, let me recommend you to 

 take a look at one of these. If you should find 

 a convenience in having a kennel in a distant 

 part of your hunt, a roomy barn is the building 

 most likely to suit, and may be converted into 

 one, at very little expense. 



Good water is as necessary for hounds as good 

 n:ieal, and the flesh for boiling ought also to be 

 attended to ; it frequently happens, that fhis is 

 contracted for, and the contractor, of whatever 

 disease a horse may have died, will be too apt 



