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with ourselves. Man, who is a house- 

 building animal, requiring warm clothing, 

 artificial heat, and cooked food, fancies 

 that he must place a horse in surround- 

 ings that would be comfortable to himself. 

 So he wraps him up in a blanket, and 

 puts him in a warm close stable. If he 

 has the means, and values his horse 

 highly, he builds him a stable with 

 matched hard wood, oiled and polished, 

 and ceils it tight overhead. He puts in 

 glazed windows, so as to have plenty of 

 light, and a ventilating shaft, perhaps a 

 foot in diameter, in the ceiling, with a clos- 

 ing valve, which is always shut in cold 

 weather, and when left open, ventilates the 

 stable about as much as taking a cork 

 out of a bottle ventilates a bottle. He 



