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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 ken- 

 nel 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 

 expence. 



Good water is as necessary for hounds 

 as good meal, and the flesh for boiling 

 ought also to be attended to ; it frequently 

 happens, that this is contracted for, and the 

 contractor, of whatever disease ahorse may 

 have died, will be too apt to bring the car- 

 case to the kennel. We know it is com- 

 monly said " any thing will do for dogs;" 

 but let me assure you, nothing will put 

 hounds so soon out of condition as bad 

 flesh. 



Old Oat meal is no doubt the best food 

 for hounds to work upon. I have no ob- 

 jection occasionally to mix a little old 



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