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GROOMS. 



domestics are retained, over whom a stud groom or even a coachman 

 presides, no specific rules are required to be laid down. 



The larger stables are, for the most part, variously but admirably 

 ordered. These sin only inasmuch as he who governs shares the igno- 

 rance which pervades all modern society. But the animal suffers from 

 other causes in the simply genteel establishment. Two grooms can 

 better attend even to six horses than one man can do all which a single 

 quadruped requires. For instance: how can any domestic lead the 

 creature to exercise, and, while he is thus employed, also freshen up the 

 stable during the period of his absence ? 



Every groom should be allowed a lad, for the above reason. Where 

 only one animal is kept, few metropolitan stables are fit abodes for either 

 man or horse. These are both retained for the labor each can perform ; 

 but, to exert this labor, a healthy residence is in both cases of equal 

 importance. To show the reformation which in the great majority of 

 London stables is imperative, the next engraving is introduced ; and it 

 is seriously recommended to the consideration of the public, not as a 

 luxury or as an appendage to affluence, but as an alteration which would 

 be favorable to absolute economy. 



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A MODERN STABLE, A3 IT MAT BE ADAPTED AND IMPROVED. 



The above plan supposes the entire space occupied by a LondoD 

 stable to be appropriated to its legitimate purpose. Within the build- 

 ing no "groom's room" is crowded. The interior of the horse's apart 

 ment extends " clear up " to the roof Such a height may, when con- 

 trasted with existing places of a like description, appear enormous; but 

 before that opinion can be established, those purposes to which the 

 house is devoted have to be considered. 



A stable into which four inconvenient stalls were crowded may bo 

 converted into a receptacle for three small loose boxes, each measuring 



