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a thin layer of reed placed under the tiles will answer the 

 purpose. 



Over the centre of the lodging-rooms should be a sleeping- 

 apartment for the feeder, which being raised above the level 

 of the other roof will break the monotony of its appearance. 

 At the rear of the kennel should be the boiling-house, feeding- 

 court, straw-house, and separate lodgings for bitches. In front 

 of the kennels, and extending round to the back door of the 

 feeding-house, should be a good large green yard enclosed by 

 a wall or palings. The former I prefer, although more ex- 

 pensive, because hounds, being able to see through the latter, 

 will be excited by passing objects ; and young hounds, for whose 

 service the green yard is more particularly intended, are inclined 

 to become noisy, barking and running round the palings when 

 any strange dog makes his appearance. 



In the boiling-house will be required two cast-iron boilers, 

 one for the meal, the other for flesh. Pure water must be in 

 some way conducted to the kennels, both for cleanliness and 

 for the preparation of food, and this should be laid on at the 

 service of the kennel-man at all parts, so that there may be 

 no excuse on the score of trouble in carrying it. There must 

 also be coolers fixed in proportion to the number of hounds, 

 each couple requiring from half a foot to a foot superficial, 

 according as it is intended to make the puddings daily or every 

 other day. Stone or iron feeding- and water-troughs are the 

 best; the latter should be .fixed high enough to keep them 

 clean 



To each lodging-room there should be two doors : one at the 

 back with a small sliding panel and high up, through which 

 the huntsman may observe the hounds without their seeing him; 

 and aaether in the front with a large opening cut at the 



