THE STABLE. Ill 



on due consultation, were declared to be incurable except 

 by firing. 



To undergo this painful prescription she was led from 

 a stable where she had been residing by herself to the 

 cavalry barracks at Hounslow, about a mile off, where 

 she was placed in a stable full of horses for a day or two 

 to undergo a preparatory dose of physic. 



By men and ropes she was then cast, fired, and in 

 the course of two or three days, as soon as she could bear 

 moving, she was slowly led back to her master, who, with 

 kind intentions, turned her into a small field of nice, 

 cool, luxuriant grass, about one hundred yards beyond 

 his house. 



After eating a few mouthfuls the poor animal raised 

 her head, snorted, looked first on one side, then on the 

 other, snorted again, stretched out her tail, trotted up 

 to a stiff post and rail fence, which she cleared, and then 

 passing unnoticed the loose box in which for many 

 months she had lived, forgetting and forgiving all the 

 sufferings that had been inflicted upon her, with raw, 

 bleeding legs, she galloped along the hard macadamised 

 road to the cavalry stable, to re-enjoy the society of the 

 dozen horses which only for a few days she had had the 

 happiness of associating with. 



In constructing a stable the main object should be to 

 secure to the lungs of the horse pure air, and to prevent 



