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“ Upon fome little eminence ereSt
“ And fronting to the ruddy dawn, its courts
“ On either hand wide opening to receive
“ The fun’s all-cheering beams, when mild he ftiines
And gilds the mountain tops.”
But this fele&ion of a high fituation is incompatible
with a running brook ; and as tbefe two advantages can¬
not be united, water is to be preferred, with the afpeft
to the morning fun as much attended to as poffible.
The number of its inmates mull determine the fize
of the kennel; and the architecture Ihoutd be neat, with-
n out being ufelef-ly expenlive. The molt magnificent is
)ukeof the duke of Richmond’s at Goodwood, which colt
tichmond’s 19,000!. and is fufficiently extenfive for two packs of
ennel. hounds. The building comprifes five kennels, two 36
by 15, three 30 by 1 j, and two feeding rooms 20 by
15 feet, with ftoves to warm the air, when too cold.
The huntfman and whipper-in have each a parlour,
kitchen, and {leeping-room.
The nearer to the houfe the kennel is placed the bet¬
ter. There are reafons againft its too clofe approach,
but they yield to others which forbid a great difiance.
To mention one, derived indeed from a vulgar faying,
“ that the mailer’s eye makes the horfe fat recoiled
that the infpedion of the kennel is even more needful
than that of the liable ; for in both, cleanlinefs is no
m lefs effential than food.
ize. The kennel fiiould be of fufficient dimenfions at its
firft building; room for twTo kennels {hould be under
the fame roof; when there is but one it is ft'Id ora
fweet ; and when walked out, the hounds, particularly
in winter, not only fuffer during the time of cleaning,
but as long afterwards as it remains wet. The fecond
kennel affords opportunity for drafting the hounds in¬
tended to hunt the next morning. In a few days
they will be drafted with little trouble, will readily
anfwer to their names; and with equal eafe as a fhepherd
numbers his fiieep, you may count your hounds into the
hunting kennel.
2l3 In a morning, upon the feeder’s firft entering the
kennel, he fiiould let the hounds into the outer court;
the door of the hunting kennel, when not occupied by
the drafted hounds for that day’s hunting, fiiould be
opened in bad weather to {belter them ; the lodging-
room fiiould then be thoroughly cleaned, the windows
and doors opened, the litter well fiiaken, and the ken¬
nel made fweet, before the hounds are again fliut into
it. Every omiflion prejudicial to the hounds fhould be
immediately pointed out to the feeder, who muft be
made to remedy it; and alfo obferve that the great
court and the other kennels are equally objects of his at¬
tention.
l0dg*ng-roorn {hould be bricked, and Hoped on
i >om. a both fides to the centre, where fhould be a gutter to
carry off the water, that when wafiied, the floor may
he equally dried : but flag-ftones, or large fquare bricks
termed/jowwonf/j1, are far preferable; there are fewer
interftices, and confequently lefs filth or water can
there accumulate, and the furface is fooner dry. Let
the floor be kept in thorough repair, that no water may
remain in any cavity, until the mafon can be had, when
at any time wanted ; let the ftagnant water be carefully
Hopped up ; for nothing is more hurtful to hounds,
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than damp, or more refrefiiing than warmth after hard Hy.-eio-
Work,
The kennel {hould have three doors ; two in front -v——«»
and one behind ; that in the back to have a lattice [Jo 5
window in it, with a wooden {butter, which is to be
kept always clofe, except in fummer, when it fhould
be left open the whole of the day. This door has a two¬
fold utility, it ferves to carry out the dirty firaw, and
being oppofite to the window, will admit a thorough
air, when the lodging-room is cleaned, which will
much contribute to render it fweet and wholefome.
The front doors will be ufeful in drying the room when
the hounds are out; and as one is to be fliut and the
other hooked back, fo as to allow a Angle dog to pafs,
they are not liable to any objedtion. The large centre
window fiiould have a folding {butter, which at night,
according to the weather, may be wholly or partially
clofed ; and thus the warmth of the kennel may be re¬
gulated as is judged moll falutary. The two great
lodging rooms are exadlly fimilar, and having a court
belonging to each, are diftindt kennels fituated at the
oppofite ends of the building. In the centre of the
boiling-houfe and feeding-yard, a lefler kennel, either
for hounds that are drafted off, hounds that are lick
and lame, or for any other required purpofe, is on each
fide ; at the back of which, it being but half the depth
of the two larger kennels, are places for coals, &e. for
the ufe of the kennel. There is alfo a final! building
in the rear for hot bitches.
The inner court floor ftiould be bricked or flagged, jnue2i1^)ur,
and Hoped towards the centre like thofe of the lodging-
room ; and water brought in by a leaden pipe, {hould
run through the channel in the middle. In the centre
of each court is a wTell fufiiciently large to dip a bucket
for the purpofe of cleaning the kennel. To keep thefe
from wanting repair, they ftiould be faced with ftone,
and to that of the feeding-yard a wooden cover thould
be fixed. The benches, which muft be open to let the
urine through, fhould have hinges and hooks in them
all, that they may fold up when the kennel is waftied.
They {hould be made as low as poffible, that when a
hound is tired, he may have no difficulty in jumping
up, and at no time be able to creep under them. Re¬
collect that if, owing to the fmallnefs of the hound, as
in beagles, it ftiould be difficult to make the benches
fufficiently low, it will be proper to nail a lodging pro¬
jecting downwards in the edge, or the benches may be
faced with boards at the bottom, to prevent hounds
from creeping under.
A large bricked court in front, having a grafs court
adjoining, and a brook running through the middle of
it, completes the kennel. This court fiiould be plant¬
ed round, and alfo have fome lime trees and fome horfe
chefnuts near the centre for (hade. Some polls bound
round with ftraw, rubbed with galbanuro, may be placed
fo as to prevent the hounds from making water againft'
the trees. The brook may be ufed as a cold bath for
hounds lamed, in the ftifle, in {trains, or for other pur-
pofes for which the cold bath is required. A high pal¬
ing {hould inclofe the whole, and which, to the height
of four feet, {hould be clofe, the remainder being open,
with an interval of two inches between the pales. At
the back of the kennel fiiould be a thatched houfe,
fenced at the fides, to contain at leaft a load of ftraw,
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