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identical in interest, often suspicious, and distrustful of each 

 other. No sinecure his, truly; yet do his lines seem to have 

 fallen in pleasant places. 



His stables, seen perhaps to greatest advantage when the 

 gas is turned on, and all made ready for the evening parade of 

 visitors, are at all times a model of neatness and comfort, and 

 the most fastidious of the equine occupants must have been 

 pampered to hypochondria if they can find aught to complain 



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Horse clothing : old style and new. 



of in board and lodging. The best Scotch oats, beans hard 

 and lustrous, and the primest of old hay, at anything you 

 please per ton, are stored in granary, bin, and loft. 



It was said of the late Joseph Dawson 'that he would give 

 his horses gold if he thought they would eat it, and that it 

 would do them good,' and the example of his lavish but wise 

 liberality in feeding stuffs has been followed in most of our 

 great training establishments. 



And the axiom ' Plenty to eat ' is no longer supplemented 

 by the stern corollary of 'No time to eat it.' The racehorse 

 of to-day takes his ease at his 'in,' but not unfrequently at his 

 4 out ' also, for the tiring every-day gallops once so much in 



