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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 

 in the field. Sometimes it is entirely committed to the care of 

 the feeder, but every huntsman who knows his business will take 

 as much pains with his hounds in kennel as out, and though he 

 will not of course prepare the food, yet he will take care to super- 

 intend it, and will always " draw " his hounds himself, for no one 

 else can possibly know how to feed them. During the season 

 this duty must of necessity devolve on the feeder or kennel-man 

 on the hunting days, but the huntsman should always carry it out 

 himself whenever he can. Hounds cannot be too fond of their 

 huntsman, and though " cupboard love " is not to be encouraged 

 in man, yet it is at the bottom of most of that which is exhibited 

 by the dog, however much it may appear to take a higher range 

 when once it has been properly developed. 



The regular daily kennel discipline is as follows : — With the 

 four lodging-rooms described there should always be two dry and 

 clean in the early morning, having been washed the day before. 

 Into these the general pack should be turned, as soon as the doors 

 are opened, or, if the morning is not wet, directly after a short 

 airing in the paddock. The feeder then sweeps out the room in 

 which they have slept, and afterwards mops it clean, drying the 

 floor as much as possible, so that by ten or eleven o'clock it is fit 

 for the hounds to re-enter. The men then get their breakfast, and 

 directly afterwards the hounds are taken out to exercise, or the 



