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fere. How often is it that the horse is attacked with windy 

 colic, unknown to any one during the night, and is found 

 dead in the stable in the morning — the halter broken — the 

 stable injured, and not unfrequently others of the horses' 

 legs bruised, broken and swollen, from kicks received from 

 the sick horse in his agonizing struggles ? To enumerate 

 the various accidents happening to horses during the night, 

 that could be avoided by a person sleeping over the stable, 

 would be unnecessary, and take up too much of our space. 

 Therefore, we would enjoin upon the owners of fine horses 

 to have a sleeping-room provided in the stable, where all 

 unusual sounds could be heard by its occupant, and acci- 

 dents thereby be prevented. This is the only security for 

 the night, where horses are kept. The stranger on the 

 street or the patrolman on his beat, will very seldom pay 

 much attention to the sounds of the plunging and kicking 

 of the horses in a stable, though the animals may be valu- 

 able ; and perhaps the struggle for life itself will in the 

 morning find one or more of them dead or disabled. We 

 have known several instances, where during the night, 

 neighbors have gone in search of the owner or his stable- 

 man, to inform them of unusual sounds coming from the 

 stable, and were thus instrumental in preventing accident 

 and saving life. 



The CARRIAGE-HOUSE OR ROOM is mostly under the 

 same roof with the stable, and divided from it by a parti- 

 tion of boards, bricks, or lime and plaster ; a door for com- 

 munication being made in the manner or place as exhibited 

 in the ground plan of a stable here presented, capable of 



