226 GROOMING. 



will require a bucket of water and a rack full of hay ; 

 when the sooner he is bedded up and allowed to rest 

 himself the better. This dressing will take at least one 

 hour and a half for each horse. 



No one man can properly clean and take care of a 

 carriage, harness, and pair of horses single-handed — 

 without neglecting either the horses, carriage, or 

 harness — the damage done to which, by neglect, would 

 be far more than the wages of a good strong strapper 

 or helper. 



For if the dirt is allowed to dry on the carriage, and 

 the damp to rust the harness, while the groom is clean- 

 ing his horses, considerable damage must necessarily be 

 sustained. 



I consider that a pair of horses, harness, carriage, &c, 

 will be full work for two men if they do full justice to 

 their master's property. 



The morning's grooming, stable cleaning, &c, will 

 take fully three hours, and exercising one hour more. 

 And say that the carriage is absent from the yard 

 about three hours, that the cleaning of the horses 

 will take three hours, the harness two hours, and the 

 carriage two hours and a half, and we shall have a 

 day's labour of fourteen hours and a half — exclusive 

 of time for meals and other numerous additional calls 

 on the coachman's time, such as care of clothing, &c. 



It will, therefore, be evident that the care of a 

 carriage and pair of horses is fully as much as two 

 men can accomplish, and that no one man should be 

 required to attempt it. 



