50 HORSE PORTRAITURE. 



horse, and so handy for those who have them in charge, 

 that to one who had been accustomed to the best half a 

 century ago, the change would be marvellous. Foi a 

 country place or farm there is nothing that adds more 

 of a home look than good outbuildings, and I would have 

 the horse barn not too far distant from the house. In 

 fact, I would have it so near that let the weather be as 

 rough as it might, there would be no dread of going from 

 one to the other. It should be a prominent feature in the 

 picture, made up of the dwelling, lawn, orchard and pad- 

 docks, where the matrons of the stud and their offspring 

 are sunning themselves. If not naturally protected, I 

 would shelter it with belts of trees, evergreen and decidu- 

 ous. To sum up, I would have it look as if its inmates 

 were just as well taken care of as those in the more 

 pretentious dwelling, and where horses, like the Falcon, 

 would have their eye for the beautiful gratified whenever 

 they looked out of the box window. For a training stable, 

 there would have to be a change of site and arrangements 

 that would differ, but the training quarters we will also 

 discuss some other time. 



PUPIL. You would have every one who kept a horse 

 provide him with a comfortable home, and it is surprising 

 that men of sufficient means are found who restrict their 

 horses to a place unfit to confine a hog. Plenty of farm- 

 ers, " out West," still crib them in a pen made of poles 

 and straw, which answered the purpose very well when 

 first erected, and while the 'family was contented and 

 comfortable in the shanty or log cabin ; but large gaps 

 have been made in the fragile material, where the cutting 

 prairie winds blow through, seemingly more biting than 

 where the snow drifted over the fence, and the cattle were 

 cowering beneath the blast. 



These men have owed all their wealth and comforts to the 

 faithful servants that brought them from their old home, 



