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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 
“ The floor of each lodging-room should be bricked, and 
sloped on both sides, to run to the centre, with a gutter left 
to carry off the water, that when they are washed they may 
be soon dry. If water should stand through any fault of 
the floor, it should be carefully mopped up, for as warmth is 
in the greatest degree necessary after work, so damps are 
equally prejudicial. Orders given without skill are seldom 
well obeyed ; and when the master is either ignorant or in¬ 
attentive, the servants will be idle. 
“ Contrary to the usual practice in building kennels, there 
should be three doors, two in the front, and one in the back; 
the last to have a lattice window in it, with a wooden shut¬ 
ter, which is constantly to be kept close when the hounds 
are in, except in summer, when it should be left open all 
day. This door answers two very necessary purposes: it 
gives an opportunity of carrying out the straw when the 
lodging-room is cleaned, and as it is opposite to the window, 
will be the means to let in a thorough air, which will greatly 
contribute to the keeping it sweet and wholesome. The 
other doors will be of use in drying the rooms, when the 
hounds are out; and as one is to be kept shut, and the others 
hooked back, (allowing just room fora dog to pass,) they are 
not liable to any objection. The great window, in the 
centre, should have a folding shutter; half or the whole of 
which may be closed at nights, according to the weather ; 
and the kennels by that means may be kept warm or 
cool.” 
The two great lodging-rooms are exactly similar, and 
having a court belonging to each, are distinct kennels, situ¬ 
ate at opposite ends of the building. In the centre is the 
boiling-house, and feeding-yard ; a lesser kennel, either for 
hounds that are drafted off, and those that are sick and 
lame, or for any other required purpose, is on each side : at 
