The Stable 



additional space to each box. Then doors can be 

 added to the box, or stout wooden poles placed 

 across the opening. This is an inexpensive plan 

 which is adopted in India, and I have employed 

 with advantage in England. Nevertheless, the 

 doors look neater, are more convenient, and are 

 worth the extra expense. The bars I have used 

 in houses rented for the season to make a roomy 

 stall into a useful box. Anything is better than 

 having a horse tied up. He cannot rest and he 

 cannot amuse himself, and many horses fret a 

 good deal when tied up, especially if they have 

 been accustomed to a loose box. 



By one means or another I nearly always avoid 

 having my horses tied up, but not quite always, 

 for I recollect one furnished house in a hunting 

 country, rented for the season, where there was 

 only one box among four horses and no possibility 

 of contriving another. The plan adopted was to 

 put the horses into it in turn. The one that had 

 been out hunting had the box on its return and 

 occupied it the next day, or until the next horse 

 came in, and in this way we managed to do fairly 

 well with the moderate accommodation provided. 

 The moral of this story is twofold : if you cannot 

 have what you want, you must do what you can, 

 but do not take a house without seeing it and the 

 stabhng. 



What I write about boxes applies particularly to 

 hunters, but scarcely less to those horses which 



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