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labor, time and money. In the average private stable the 

 systematic performance of the early morning and evening 

 work can be conducted without interruption; /. e., the servants 

 arise at a certain hour, give the feed of hay and oats, water, 

 do the grooming, set fair the stalls and have their breakfast ; 

 in the evening the horses are watered, blanketed, fed and 

 their beds made at regular hours. In this way much more 

 work can be accomplished. Time is provided for all the 

 work to be done, and there is consequently no excuse when 

 it is neglected. If there be any negligence or tardiness it is 

 made evident by being reflected from one duty to another 

 throughout the day. The author has endeavored, in dealing 

 with the various duties of a servant, to specify the time that 

 he may reasonably employ in doing his work. Inferior 

 coachmen dislike having their work " cut and dried," i. e., 

 systematized, but good men prefer it and recognize its value. 

 On this subject Charles Brindley, in the " Pocket and the 

 Stud," says : 



" One of the first things desirable in stable management is n/k ; by rule 

 I mean a regular way of doing things ; and this is a matter seldom attended 

 to sufficiently, unless the stable is under the superintendence of a firgt-rate 

 stud-groom. I do not merely allude to the important matters of stable 

 hours, dressing, feeding, watering, and so forth, but to the minor details." — 

 /. go. 



" All things in a stable should be done, not from a man recollecting that 

 he should do it, but from habit, as naturally as he brings up his left leg to 

 follow his right or vice versa.'" — ■/. g2. 



As stable servants are not naturally systematic, the work 

 which occurs at odd intervals, but is practically the same 

 day after day, should be performed in such a systematic way 

 that one act is instinctively followed by another. The per- 



