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by strong wire, to prevent the horses from breaking them. 

 There are to be shutters outside these windows ; and if 

 they were made to resemble the Venetian blinds, which 

 are so generally fixed outside the windows of houses 

 on the Continent, and not unfrequently in England, 

 they would most effectually exclude the sun's heat, and 

 at the same time permit the admission of air. I see no 

 objection to cavities or recesses being left in convenient 

 parts of the front walls, and of suitable dimensions for 

 the formation of cupboards for the forks, brooms, and 

 shovels ; and other small recesses may also be formed 

 into cupboards about a foot square, for each boy to put 

 away his comb and brush, his damp wisp, picker, 

 sponge and main-comb; but the fastenings of the cup- 

 boards in the boxes should be made in such a manner as 

 to prevent the horse from opening them. 



The partition walls which divide the stables into 

 separate compartments, are to be placed at different 

 distances from each other, in the following order: — 

 No. 1, twenty-seven feet. No. 2, thirteen feet. No. 3, 

 thirteen feet. No. 4, thirteen feet. No. 5, twenty feet. 

 No. 6, thirteen feet, No. 7^ thirteen feet. No. 8, thir- 

 teen feet, and No. 9, thirteen feet. In each of these 

 walls, there must be a space left for a door-way at a 

 suitable distance from the horses' quarters, to admit 

 occasionally of a communication from one stable to 

 another, so that the resident and principal training- 

 groom may, whenever he has the entire management 

 of all the horses in his stables, proceed from one to the 



