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on its way back to the stable, the coachman and groom 

 smoking or joking. On arriving home the horses are 

 " slipped out " of their harness, run, hot and dirty, into their 

 stalls, the carriage and harness hastily sponged over, a feed 

 of oats tossed into the mangers, and the servants are off for 

 the night. 



PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 



Those stable servants whose duties require them to appear 

 in livery should not be abnormally large, small, dispropor- 

 tionately built or in any other way conspicuous. Coachmen 

 and grooms who are round shouldered, crane-necked, or 

 gawky in carriage or movements mar the symmetry of an other- 

 wise well appointed trap. A coachman should be between 

 five feet seven and a half and five feet eleven, and weigh 

 from one hundred and forty to one hundred and seventy 

 pounds. The groom should be shorter and of lighter build 

 than the coachman. Men, called coachmen, are frequently 

 seen indulging in some form of hirsute luxury, such as a flow- 

 ing beard and waxed mustache, or dangling locks. The objec- 

 tions to such vanities are thoroughly justified by all the laws 

 of cleanliness. Go to the stable when the horses are being 

 groomed and notice the dirt with which the air is filled, 

 and it is at once evident that the cleaner shaven a man is 

 the better ; moreover, a servant cannot appear as neat and 

 trim when wearing a beard or rnustache as he can without 

 these facial decorations. Both coachman and groom should 

 be clean shaven as to chin and upper lip. The carriage 

 and pad groom should always be smaller than the coachman 

 and both men of about the same type, so that no difference 

 in the shape of the livery is necessary. As the duties of 



