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should we like (clothe us in blankets if you will) 

 to be kept night and day with our head out of the 

 window ? A cold stable is, in a limited sense, some- 

 thing like this: — let me ask my friends this simple 

 question, — have they never on a cold night (though 

 with plenty of bed-clothes on) put their noses 

 under them ? If they have, I need say no more 

 on the luxury of inhaling cold chilling air, or its 

 reverse. 



Ask any man who has undergone the pleasing 

 change of taking off his warm clothes, and been 

 kept waiting on a cold day, in his silk jacket, on 

 his horse (while some gentleman rider was arrang- 

 ing himself to his — not the man in waiting's — 

 satisfaction) how he felt on such an occasion. 

 Coming from Mexico to Canada is heaven to it. 

 If a man is too warm from a room beino; the 

 same, but is moderately clothed, evaporation can 

 go on ; he is warm — hot, if you please — but his 

 skin is comparatively dry : great thickness of cloth- 

 ing would prevent this ; so the pores of the skin 

 of the wearer would be as damp and open as if he 

 came out of a warm bath. 



To return to the upper apertures for ventila- 

 tion, they may be either glazed or simply of board, 

 as suits the taste of the builder, and should be 

 made to open and shut by a double cord hanging 

 down within reach of the hand. The lower win- 

 dows I have had made to slide rldit and left into 



