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CHAP. VI. 



DIFFERENT MODES OF KEEPING HORSES. CHAQUE PAYS, 



CHAQUE MODE. THE KIND OF HORSE BEST SUITED FOB 



DIFFERENT CARRIAGES. ON SINGLE-HORSE CARRIAGES 



AND PAIR-HORSE DITTO. THE PROS AND CONS OP 



KEEPING CARRIAGE-HORSES AND HUNTERS AT LIVERY. 

 JOBBING OF HORSES. SUMMARY OF THE WORK. 



WHEN using the term "stud," our ideas are 

 chiefly led to the contemplation of the hunter's 

 stable. I only mean it, as used in these sheets, 

 to allude to horses in general ; but, be the stud 

 what it may, it is composed of horses used more 

 or less as animals for real use or business, or for 

 pleasurable purposes. Of course, the horses used 

 for the park and street are for use, but not used 

 in the light in which I contemplate the term. 



Now, there are two opposite ways in which 

 horses may be kept ; and both will answer well if 

 in all particulars the system is adhered to. There 

 is the rough and ready plan, and there is the plan 

 that brings out horses in fine* condition ; but the 

 person is unreasonable as regards his servant and 

 his horses, if he thinks he can combine both. If 

 a lady merely wants a pair of animals to drag a 

 machine on wheels about, so as to convey her 

 free from wet or cold wherever and whenever she 



