STABLES. 199 



habits of life, where nineteen times out of twenty 

 he would be defeated." Again — " As there is an 

 analogy between a man and a horse in work, let 

 us carry it a little farther, and ask, Whether, after 

 a hard day's exercise in the winter, a man would 

 recover sooner if he passed his evening in a warm 

 room, or if he passed it in a bivouac, or in a room 

 that was cold and damp V If it be possible to get a 

 horse to look well in a cold stable, it is not in the 

 power of a groom to put him into the height of 

 condition in a damp one. 



From the work already quoted, we subjoin the 

 plan of stabling for six hunters. " I w^ould have," 

 says he, " two four-stalled stables, in which I would 

 keep only six horses — that is, three in each ; and I 

 would have a box at the end of each. If possible, 

 I would have a southern aspect, with windows 

 opening from the top or downward, or else on a 

 pivot in the centre, and placed so high in the wall, 

 that, when open, the air may be circulated through 

 the stable, without affecting one horse more than 

 another, and the height of the interior should be 

 only twelve feet in the clear. I would have the 

 stalls paved nearly flat, with only a trifling inclina- 

 tion to the centre ; in each of which there should 

 be a small grating over the drain, and the stalls 

 should be no more than six feet wide. There 

 should be at least twelve feet behind the horses, 

 and the exterior walls and doors should be very 

 thick. The wooden partition-walls of the boxes 

 should be only nine feet high, with wooden bolts 

 to the doors ; and each box should not exceed ten 



