36 NOTES FOR HUNTING-MEN 



partition, high enough to prevent their biting each 

 other. In a larger stable, I would, however, always 

 have two or three isolated boxes for sick animals, 

 and for horses (and there are some) who do 

 better quite by themselves. There are brutes, too, 

 who, if they can sniff at a neighbour through the 

 bars, take to kicking the box to pieces. These also 

 I should condemn to solitary confinement. 



The adjuncts to a hunting stable are a good 

 forage barn, with stone-floored partitions for oats. 

 Forage ^^ oxpenso storo or feeding place, in which 

 ^^™ to keep the forage for each day's consump- 

 tion, a cleaning or tack room, and a best saddle 

 room. 



In the cleaning room is done all the cleaning of 

 the saddlery, and in it the men keep their ' tack ' 

 cieanin<' ^^^ grooming tools. It is provided with a 

 '"''™ copper for the stable cookery, and is gene- 

 rally the rough workshop of the establishment. 



The saddle room, on the other hand, should be 

 kept entirely for clean saddlery and harness ; and 

 saridie everything hung up there, as well as the 

 ■^^^"^ room itself, should be fit for inspection 

 by the master at any time during the day. Most 

 hunting establishments are also provided with one 

 or two rooms for valets' cleaning rooms. Where 

 there are two, the second horseman can, without 

 inconvenience, clean his livery in one of them. 



