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necessary to adopt one of the two extremes, and 

 any one complimented me so far as to ask which 

 I should consider the least bad, I should say a 

 stable somewhat too warm and moderate clothing. 

 I reason by analogy. We will suppose two per- 

 sons to be sitting in two different rooms ; the one 

 in a room at the ordinary warmth of a comfortable 

 dining-room, say 65 degrees, and clad in an ordi- 

 nary evening dress; the other to be placed in a 

 room ten degrees colder, but so be-lamb's-woolled 

 and be-piloted as to bring the temperature of his 

 skin to the warmth of the other. Let them both 

 strip to their shirt and drawers, which we will 

 consider to stand in the place of the natural coat 

 of the horse, and go out. I consider the man 

 throwing off his sweaters would feel the sudden 

 exposure of his skin accustomed to such clothing 

 more severely than the other would the change 

 of atmosphere. Against this, I am aware it may 

 be said, how severely we feel the cold coming out 

 of a theatre or crowded ball-room. No doubt we 

 do, and so would a horse coming out of a stable 

 of the same temperature ; but when I allude to 

 stables somewhat or rather too warm, I do not 

 mean one at 80 degrees ; and when I state I 

 prefer one rather too warm to one rather too 

 cold, I mean it in the case of gentlemen's 

 horses, not of a street cab horse, or even a 

 medical gentleman's pair, or the one condemned 

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