a place or little house for hounds; and, in a metaphorical sense, used for the pack of hounds itself. To make a complete kennel, three conveniences ought to be observed, viz. a sweet air, fresh water, and the morning sun; for which the following rules may be instructive.—The court should be large; for the more spacious it is, the better it will be for the hounds to refresh themselves in; and it should be well walled, or fenced about, to prevent their getting out, but not so high as to keep out the sun or wind. The water, if possible, should run through some part of the court or yard; or, for want thereof, have a well with a stone trough about a foot and a half high, always kept with fresh water, to the end the hounds may drink when they please; and at one end of the trough there must be a hole to let out the water for cleaning it. Let the kennel be built in the highest part of the court, in which there should be two rooms, one of which should be larger than the other, with a large chimney to make a fire when need requires. This room should be raised about three feet from the ground, and in the floor there should be two gutters for the conveyance of the urine. There must be dispersed up and down small bedsteads raised a foot from the floor, with holes pierced through the planks for drawing away their urine. The other room must be for the huntsman to keep his poles, whips, falcons, and the like necessaries; there should also be a copper for the boiling, dressing, and ordering of their food, when they come home wet and weary. Be careful not to give them any drink in vessels of copper; and as to the proportion and quality of allowance for food, it must be ordered with relation to the nature of the hounds and their sizes: three bushels of oats, with a bushel and a half of wheat-bran, will serve ten couple and a half of middling-sized hounds a week, giving them sometimes beef broth, whey, flint-milk, chippings of bread, bones, and sometimes a little horse-flesh; for change of food creates a good appetite, and preserves health. The oats and wheat-bran must be boiled and thickened with milk and butter-milk, with some chippings, or some broken meat boiled therein. With regard to horse-flesh, those best skilled this way, think, of all their foods (provided it be given with discretion), horse-flesh the best, and hottest. As for dogs that are accustomed to hunt the hare, it is not good to give them any meat, because it is said to withdraw their scent or affections from the chace, as their flesh is not very sweet, nor their scent very strong. If the huntsman perceives, that through long and frequent chaces the hounds fall away, he must be more careful in feeding and cherishing them with some good broth of boiled oxen or sheep's hearts. On such days as the hounds do not hunt, the best times to feed them are early, before sun-rising, and late in the evening, after sun-set; and on the days they hunt, they ought to be rewarded as they come home, be it when it will, with a good supper; for nothing is a greater discouragement to a hound than to go to sleep with an empty belly after hard labour. If you have more dead flesh than you have present occasion for, it may be preserved a week or ten days' sweet, by burying it under ground.

To KENNEL, a term applied by fox-hunters to a fox when he lies in his hole.