96 THE POCKET AND THE STUD. 



did not ; for a couple of seasons after, he kept 

 two other entire horses, sire and son, in the same 

 stable, one four and the other nine years old : for 

 the old horse he had refused, two years before the 

 time alluded to, 1000, not pounds, but guineas. 

 The young horse got loose ; and on the groom's 

 going into the stable, hearing an unusual noise, 

 he found the sire with his thigh broken. A vet. 

 was called in ; and I saw the horse in slings in a 

 loose box. But he could not be kept quiet; 

 his groans were piteous. He died frantic the 

 next night ; and on examining his body, it was 

 found that two or three of his ribs were also 

 broken. So the poor animal's sufferings while 

 they were pressed upon by the slings may be 

 imagined. The gates I mention would have pre- 

 vented all this. 



The Saddle and Harness Room. 



Something of this sort is quite a necessary 

 appendage to the most ordinary stable. No horse 

 appointment can be kept decently clean without 

 it; and multitudinous are the indispensable articles 

 of this kind wanted. If even a number of horses 

 are kept, it is true if a man does not object to 

 sore backs and wrung shoulders, the same saddle 

 and neck-collar may be made to do duty for more 

 than one horse ; but in mentioning what I hold 



