102 THE HORSE. 



him, daily decreased ; the miserable beast became 

 consumptive, glandered, and the hounds, his best 

 friends, ultimately ended his sorrows ; but the rascal 

 obtained his ends, and with impunity, although the 

 circumstance was known to the whole parish. The 

 only effective remedy in common cart stables where 

 expense is to be avoided, is the quarter stall, or 

 boarded partition reaching as far as the shoulders of 

 the horses, completely separating their heads. Every 

 considerate and experienced person will, I conceive, 

 agree with me, that no two labouring animals ought 

 to be fed together, or with their heads in reach of each 

 other, where it can be otherwise ordered. 



The splendid coat and superior condition of the 

 English high kept horse, lie under no small obligation 

 to that ample carpet of clean straw on which he* 

 stands through the day, and to the full and comfort- 

 able bed of the same, on which he reposes and takes 

 his rest during the night. I have already spoken of 

 the happy failure of that mean and profitless attempt 

 made some years since, to introduce the custom of 

 compelling our horses to stand upon the bare stones. 

 I might have added, this penury is no novelty, since 

 it may be traced to remote antiquity, and its revival 

 was attempted in the reign of James I. by Morgan? 

 a writer of that day, and others ; and successfully 

 ridiculed and opposed by their contemporary Michael 

 Baret, whose eulogy I have written elsewhere. How- 

 ever, est modus in rebus, there is a due medium in all 

 things, thence the stable can claim no exemption. In 

 littering down a stallion particularly, very deep, such 

 an accident has occasionally occurred, as his taking 



