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are compelled to be for the value of space as in towns, 

 air-shafts should be carried from the stables through the 

 roof, and all communication from the stable shut oft 

 by doors, as nothing spoils hay sooner than the smells 

 from a stable. A box or stall should be always made at 

 one end of the stable for the purpose of washing horses 

 after a journey, so that the floor of the stable can be 

 kept dry, The saddle-room should be in direct com- 

 munication with the stable, as nothing is so bad for men 

 as to have to run out of doors in all weathers for every- 

 thing they require. Many stablemen come to a pre- 

 mature grave by running out of a hot stable in their 

 shirtsleeves when in a state of perspiration ; the cold 

 striking them, they become affected with asthma, 

 bronchitis, and rheumatism ; yet not one stable in a 

 hundred has any regard paid to the comtort of the men. 

 The internal fittings of the stable are a matter of taste ; 

 and as every crow thinks its own bird the whitest, so 

 every gentleman thinks his own stable the best. Having 

 tried to show what a stable ought and ought not to be, 

 I will proceed to the management of the horse in the 

 stable, and hope to be able to show that it is by kind- 

 ness alone that we must resort to make the horse love, 

 fear, and obey. God, in his infinite wisdom, has formed 

 the horse so that it can be operated upon by the know- 

 ledge of man according to the dictates of his will, and 

 he might well be termed an unconscious, submissive 

 servant. This truth we see verified in every day's 

 experience by the abuses practised upon him. That he 

 is so constituted by nature that he will not offer resist- 

 ance to any demand made of him which he fully 



