KENNELS AT TED WORTH. 



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move them so quickly that a roomy cart-shed was provided 

 for them. The flooring!: of this shed was of chalk well 



KENNEL DOOE AT TEDWOKTH. 



rammed down, on the principle of the old Eoman barn-floors 

 mentioned in Virgil's Georgics, cretd solidanda tenaci. 

 Here the hounds soon recovered, and upon the flint-stones 

 in the kennel being removed, a great deal of moisture was 

 found collected underneath, although there was no land- 

 spring near. This convinced the squire that Virgil was 

 right, and from that time the yards of the kennels were laid 

 with hard clay or chalk. The hounds were strangers to 

 shoulder-lameness ever afterwards. Their sleeping apart- 

 ments were raised four feet from the ground, each hound, 

 like his master, going upstairs to bed. They were thatched 



