244 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



The horses are not specially fine, but they are in good flesh and well 

 cared for. The master has no fear that they will run away. They are 

 well trained and know they will not be abused, hence they drink con- 

 tentedly, preparatory to the half-day's plowing expected of them. The 

 barn is a rough structure, but it is well built and thoroughly warm in 

 winter. 



VII. Pictures from Real Life. 



The surroundings of a man, in any condition in life, are an index to 

 his character. The kind master may have only a stable built of poles, 

 the sides filled in with hay, and the roof of the same material; but it 

 will be comfortable. Health, thrift and care, in the end, will enable him 

 to build better. However poor, there will be method in his labor. He 

 will sow no more crops than his team can properly prepare the ground 

 for, and himself can carefully tend. His debts vnW not be for useless 

 trumpery, and what tools he has will be in good order. His animals 

 will be no more than can be properly cared for, so that, in the end, his 

 barns and yards may look something like the picture of the shelter of 

 the provident man. 



The barn of the improvident man will be dilapidated. The door will 

 be off the hinges, and propped up with rails. There may be some 

 attempt at chinking up cracks. His wagon will stand anywhere in the 

 storm, while his harness will lie handy, perhaps on the tongue of the 

 wagon, or else be flung on the floor of the hovel he calls a barn. His 

 animals will be unsheltered, and allowed to shift for themselves at a 

 neighboring hay stack, yet he will be so fully employed, that he will 

 have no time to do better. He will have no barn filled to the ridge- 

 pole with fodder, no horses, cattle and sheep enjoying themselves in 

 the stables. His pigs can of course shift for themselves entirely. They 

 will be so thin that they can easily slide through any fence near by, 

 within which, indeed, all his stock have probably helped themselves, 

 unless his careful neighbors have made their fences ''horse-high, bull- 

 proof and pig-tight." 



As to his home, it may look something like the picture, airy in 

 summer, but not comfortable in winter — for a brush-pile, eked out with 

 bark torn from the fences, does not make generous fuel. Dear reader, 

 have you not recognized the picture in your travels? Have not some 

 of us seen the same thing near home? 



The home of the intelligent and thrifty man will in time come to look 

 like the one shown in the illustration of kindness and common sense 

 exemplified. At all events, however humble, neatness and good care 

 will be apparent everywhere. 



