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FAULTS INSEPARABLE FROM STABLES. 



disappointment, and vexation; but pride found it more ^.greeable tc 

 accuse the works of Heaven with the results of its own culpability than 

 to suspect the adequacy of its own institutions. Nature has, in vain, 

 labored to instruct the waywardness of conceit. Mankind could endure 

 all evils before it could afford to question the perfectibility of mortal 

 invention. 



Horses, when disposed to remain stationary, always select ground 

 where the forefeet can occupy a position lower than the hind legs. In 

 stables, this inclination is reversed, the hinder limbs invariably resting on 

 an inferior level to what the forefeet range upon. The motive upon 

 which the dictates of nature are outraged is the facility which a floor 

 slanting in the backward direction affords for surface moisture to flow 

 into the open gutter that runs along the extreme margin of the gangway. 

 Science, evidently, has not been consulted in an arrangement which sac- 

 rifices the health and the comfort of an inhabitant of the stall to obtain so 

 obvious, gross, and poor an advantage. Stables, evidently, were built 

 only to please the fancy, and propitiate the prejudices of ignorant pro- 

 prietors. No thought was bestowed upon the quadrupeds such edifices 

 pretended to accommodate. The consequence is seen in the discomfort, 

 torture, and the speedy decline of lives which are forced to dwell within 

 one of these notorious charnel-houses. 



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WHEN CONFINED TO THE STALL, HORSES GENERALLY STAND WITH THE HIND FEET UPON A LOWER LEVEL 

 THAN THE F0BEH00F8 OCCUPY. 



Knowing the object desired, the reader will naturally expect to be in- 

 formed whether dryness is secured by the present arrangement. When 

 answering this inquiry, the author must describe the general plan accord- 



