able, did not satisfy. They did not, in 

 those days, worship '^ stable furniture." 



Note, that at that time blankets were 

 little used, — never on saddle horses, — and 

 the stables were carelessly built and very 

 open. Glazed windows in barns or sta- 

 bles were almost unknown. 



Now-a-days I frequently see horses com- 

 ing from the country, blanketed to the 

 ears, while standing in the street, with the 

 thermometer at 60, and the sun shining. 



Fully half the horses we see on the 

 street are stiff, or more or less lame. 



Now there must be something wrong to 

 account for all this. 



Some persons have ascribed it, in rather 

 a nebulous way, to the effects of civiliza- 

 tion. But how does civilization act upon 



