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for the boys to mount the horses in the stable, and 

 ride them out to exercise, and in again on returning, it 

 will be advisable, in order to prevent accidents oceur- 

 ing either to the boys or to the horses, to make these 

 door-ways, as well as all the others on the premises, 

 very large. 



The space to be left for these door frames (the edges 

 of which should be rounded off at the centre about two 

 feet) should be in width, four feet, eight inches, by 

 nine feet eight, and to be somewhat arched at the top. 

 The door frames should be seven feet eight inches high, 

 so as to leave a space above the door for a moveable 

 window, about a foot and a half deep, which may be 

 hung so as to turn on a central pivot, and occasionally 

 permit the ingress of air. If also, the said door frames 

 be made four inches thick, and rounded off as above 

 mentioned (as all stable doors should be) they will 

 leave a full four feet in the clear. The number of win- 

 dows to be in each stable, are two ; the spaces left for 

 them are to commence six feet from the ground, and 

 should be four feet four for the sash frames, in the four 

 and three-stall stables; but those in the loose boxes 

 and two-stall stables are to be made proportionably less. 

 The lower half of the whole of the windows should be 

 formed by two ranges of flat wooden rails, let into 

 the wall a little on each side, and made to slide over 

 each other, so as to admit air when required, in the 

 manner of drying houses of paper manufactories; and 

 the upper part should be glazed to admit the light. 

 These glazed parts in the loose l)oxes must be protected 



