96 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



sire and son, in the same stable, one four, the other 

 nine years old : for the old horse he had refused, 

 two years before the time alluded to, 1000, not 

 pounds, but guineas. The young horse got loose ; 

 and on the groom's going into the stable, hearing 

 an unusual noise, he found the sire with his thigh 

 broken. A vet. was called in ; and I saw the horse 

 in slings in a loose box. But he could not be kept 

 quiet; his groans were piteous. He died frantic 

 the next night ; and, on examining his . body, it 

 was found that two or three of his ribs were also 

 broken. So the poor animal's sufferings while 

 these were pressed upon by the slings may be 

 imagined. The gates I mention would have pre- 

 vented all this. 



THE SADDLE AND HARNESS ROOM. 



Something of this sort is quite a necessary 

 appendage to the most ordinary stable. No horse 

 appointment can be kept decently clean without 

 it ; and multitudinous are the indispensable articles 

 of this kind wanted. If even a number of horses 

 are kept, it is true if a man does not object to 

 sore backs and wrung shoulders, the same saddle 

 and neck-collar may be made to do duty for more 

 than one horse ; but in mentioning what I hold 

 as indispensable to such stables as those I have 



