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lameness, although every precaution of draining, ventila- 

 tion, and paving was resorted to, the situation or subsoil 



PABT OF PKIXCIPAL EXTKANCE TO STABLES AT TEDWOETH. 



(chalk upon strong clay) ^yas deemed unhealthy and con- 

 demned. Mr. Smith, with his usual discernment, had re- 

 marked that the lame hounds, when removed below the hill 

 to his Home Farm, and turned into the calf-pens there, soon 

 recovered. This induced him at once to fix on that spot, 

 well sheltered by trees and buildings from the north and 

 north-east, for the site of the present excellent kennels. He 

 drew the design for them on half a sheet of paper, which was 

 afterwards put to a scale, and carried out exactly according 

 to the plan by his own carpenter and bricklayer. 



A writer in the Sporting Magaziiie, speaking of the boil- 

 ing and feeding-houses at Tedworth, remarks that they ar^ 



