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which will suggest itself at once is that of a good cupboard, or rather press, 

 at each end of the building. Nothing looks more iinstabkvianlike than 

 forks, brooms, buckets, etc., standing about. Should it be at all dusk or 

 even by daylight if your attention is occupied, the chance is you break your 

 shin over a pail, and while dancing with agony on one leg, you hop into the 

 dropping-scuttle, and out of that pop into the cold stopping-box. 



" Numerous accidents happen where utensils are allowed to stand in the 

 stable. Horsfs coming in and out are almost sure to strike against them. 

 This frightens them ; they run back, hit something else, or run against other 

 horses and get kicked. Should such a thing occur as a horse getting loose 

 in the night (no very improbable circumstance, by the by, in a badly con- 

 ducted stable), probably if he walked quietly about, or even into another 

 horse's stall, if used to each other, no harm may happen ; but if in the dark 

 he gets kicking the buckets about the stable, as Dr. Pangloss, did the phials 

 about his shop, he (not Dr. Pangloss) gets frightened, frightens the other 

 horses, and they all get kicking and snorting together ; and then, to use the 

 doctor's pet numbers, it is ' Two thousand five hundred and thirty-eight ' to 

 one that some mischief ensues." — Charles Brindley, ^^ Pocket and the 

 Stud,'' pp. go aiidgj. 



CLEANLINESS. 



Cleanliness and neatness are as possible and desirable in 

 the stable or barn as in any of the large mercantile establish- 

 ments of the cities. All parts of the stable should be swept 

 out each morning and the window sills, shelves and other 

 projecting furnishings dusted. All dirt should be swept into 

 the pit or basket, not out of the stable door. By sprinkling 

 the floor with water — not deluging it — much dust is pre- 

 vented from rising and then settling on the carriage, harness 

 or horses. Liquid " Sanitas Disinfectant" used in the same 

 way, at but a trifling expense, produces a similar result, be- 

 sides giving a clean, healthful odor. Once a week there should 

 be a cleaning day when the stalls should be thoroughly washed 

 out, i. e., flooded ; the mangers, partitions, walls and windows 



