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or directly injure his health for certain purposes, 

 would shortly show him as an animal, both in ap- 

 pearance and condition, as totally unfit, internally 

 and externally, for that fast work to which valuable 

 horses are put externally from having the coat 

 of a bear, and internally from its having been im- 

 possible in such a stable to have carried him 

 through that discipline necessary for such purposes. 

 Such a stable, after a sweat, would be death, 

 though the cart-horse might live and have his 

 health in it. 



Various have been the plans suggested and 

 drawn for the elevation of stables, and in many 

 cases the taste and talent of some of our first-rate 

 architects have been called for in the erection of 

 them. This is all very well, so far as it gratifies 

 a very pardonable vanity in men of large fortune, 

 who pique themselves on their studs of horses, 

 among their other valuable possessions. They, 

 as a matter of course, have many friends who 

 indulge in similar pursuits, and consequently vie 

 with each other in the arrangement of their sta- 

 bles, as much as their ladies do in that of their 

 nursery, boudoir, or conservatory. Such expensive 

 and tasteful decorations, internal and external, of 

 course, add nothing to the comfort of the animal. 

 All that is required in stables for the well-doing 

 of the horse amounts only to this: they should 

 stand dry, be roomy, lofty, warm, yet the means of 



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