THE KENNEL. 
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the back of which, as they are but half the depth of the two 
larger kennels, are places for coals, &c., for the use of the 
kennel. There is also a small building in the rear for the 
accommodation of bitches in heat The inner-court doors 
should be bricked or flagged, and sloping towards the centre, 
like those of the lodging-rooms ; and water, brought in by a 
leaden pipe, should run through the channel in the middle. 
In the centre of each court is a well sufficiently large to dip 
a bucket in to clean the kennels : to keep it from wanting 
repair it should be faced with stone. A wooden cover should 
be fixed over the well of the feeding yard. 
The benches, which must be open to let the urine through, 
should have hinges and hooks in the wall, that they 
may fold up when the kennel is washed ; let them be 
made as low as possible, that when a hound is tired he may 
have no difficulty in jumping up, and at no time should 
the space under it be so great that he will be able to creep 
under. 
A large bricked court in front, having a grass court ad¬ 
joining, and a brook running through the middle of it, com¬ 
pletes the kennel. This court should be planted round, and 
also have some lime and horse-chestnut trees near the centre 
for shade ; some posts, bound round with galbanum, may be 
placed to prevent the hounds urining against the trees. The 
brook may be used as a cold bath, for hounds lamed in the 
stifle and strained. A high pale should inclose the whole, 
which, to the height of four feet should be close; the other 
open, two inches wide. At the back of the kennel should 
be a thatched house, and fenced up at the sides, to contain 
at least a load of straw ; a pit for receiving the dung, and a 
gallows for the flesh. If a piece of ground adjoining the 
kennel can be enclosed for such dog-horses as may be brought 
alive, it will be of great service, as the disorders of con- 
