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building altogether about twenty-five feet long by fifteen feet 

 wide ; this should be bricked up at the back and half the ends. 

 The front should be of brick for about three feet from the ground, 

 as also the front half of the two ends ; above these dwarf walls 

 open wire-work or wooden laths should be carried up to the eaves 

 of the roof, which need not be more than seven feet from the 

 floor. This building may then be divided by brick walls into 

 three compartments, each eight feet wide and fifteen feet long, 

 doors of course being left at convenient places. The partition 

 walls should be carried up to the roof, and will prevent the neces- 

 sity of any principals, which materially reduces the expense. 

 About six feet may then be partitioned off from each compartment 

 for a sleeping-room, and the whole paved, as before directed, 

 taking care either to drain each into a central, well-trapped drain, 

 or to slope them gradually towards the front, in which an opening 

 should be left to allow the escape of the washings into a drain out- 

 side. A door should of course be provided in the wall of the 

 sleeping-room, and a window, which should be capable of being 

 opened or shut with a graduated slide, for the purpose of ventila- 

 tion. There should also be an aperture, capable of being opened 

 or shut, in the back of the sleeping-room, to allow of a thorough 

 draught in warm weather. The best aspect is a south-east or 

 south-west, as the sun is very essential to the health of dogs, 

 except in very hot weather indeed, when a canvas awning is 

 required, if there is no shade from trees. With regard to the 

 bricks used in the walls, care should be taken that they are of the 

 hardest and least absorbent kind ; or, if at all soft, they should be 



