CHAPTER 11. 

 Stable Conveniences 



CONVENIENCE is an essential to the satis- 

 factory management and prompt perform- 

 •ance of all stable work — and by this is meant not 

 only consecutiveness of all arrangements, but the 

 presence in exactly the right places of all the little 

 necessities to the work which has, in the performance 

 of it every day, year in and year out, so much to do 

 with its accurate and speedy accomplishment. If 

 this is true of the average stable, it is absolutely 

 imperative that in the establishment of the " little 

 man," presided over possibly by himself and one 

 or more of his boys, everything should be at hand 

 so that not a moment need be lost. 



Beginning with the door or doors through which 

 egress is gained, they should be amply wide, and 

 roll or swing upon their hinges easily and freely; 



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