FOXHOUND AND HARRIER KENNELS, ETC. 277 
young hounds, with a grass yard attached, for their own use, 
and it is certainly very advantageous; but with a little man- 
agement the buildings above recommended will be sufficient, and 
with a saving of considerable expense. The hounds during the 
hunting season will not require it at all, as they should be walked 
out several times a day into a paddock or field, and should not be 
allowed to lie about anywhere but on their benches. 
In the rear of the kennels should be a covered passage into 
which the doors of the middle kennel should open, and leading 
to the feeding-house, which stands under the same roof as the 
boiling-house, only separated from it by a partition. This pas- 
sage should be so constructed as to make a foot-bath for the hounds 
as they pass through after hunting, the bricks being gradually 
sloped from each end to the centre, where it should be a foot deep, 
with a plugged drain in the lowest part, to let the hot liquor or 
water off into a drain. On each side of this passage should be a 
paved court with a small lodging-house at each end; one for lame 
hounds, and the other for those which are sick. 
The ventilation of the rooms composing the lodgings of the 
hounds must be carefully attended to, and for this purpose the 
shaft alluded to at page 272 is by far the best adapted. It 
resembles in external appearance that usually placed above well- 
constructed stables, &c.; but there is this important internal 
alteration, that the square is divided perpendicularly into four 
triangular tubes, one of which is sure tu be presented to the wind, 
from whatever quarter of the compass it is blowing, while the 
opposite one allows the foul air to escape, to make room for that 
descending through the first-named tube. When this is once con- 
structed, it only remains to lead a metal tube from each of these 
four compartments to every one of the lodging-rooms, which will 
thus be as effectually ventilated as if each had an apparatus to 
itself. To carry this out well the lodging-rooms should be in a 
block, and then there will be a corner of each meeting in a 
common centre, above which the ventilator should be placed with 
the arrangement of tubes above described. 
The kennel management of hounds is a much more difficult and 
important affair than is generally supposed, as upon its proper 
performance, in great) measure, depends the obedience of the pack 
