272 KENNELS AND KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 
The central square, comprised between the four angles a 0 d, 
is divided into four lodging-houses, having a ventilating shaft in 
the middle, with which they all communicate, These are filled up 
with benches separated by low partitions, as shown in the diagram, 
and raised about a foot from the ground. Each opens into a yard, 
with a door of communication so arranged as to be left partly open 
without allowing the slightest draught to blow upon the beds, 
These yards, ab, bc, cd, da, are all roofed in, and bounded on the 
outer side by open pales guarded by coarse wire net, to prevent the 
teeth of the inmates gnawing them. They are separated by narrow 
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Ground Plan of Greyhound Kennel. 
partitions, which slide up to allow of the dogs having the whole . 
run; or they may be left down, and the upper part open, so as to 
encourage the puppies to fence, by the necessity for jumping over 
them in pursuing one another. The floors should be of glazed 
tiles, adamantine clinkers, Dutch clinkers, Broseley bricks, or 
cement, the last being the most clean and freé from absorption, 
which ought always to be entirely prevented. Each sleeping-place 
and yard should have a trapped drain, so as to carry off any wet 
directly it falls, and the former should be built exteriorly of brick 
cemented at least a foot from the ground, with board partitions 
between them. A window should be in each, which is capableé of 
