CHAPTER II. 



STABLES OF DIFFERENT KINDS. 

 The Club, Livery, Sale, Racing, Railroad, and Farm Stables. 



The variety of stables that we now propose to lay under 

 contribution cannot, from their diversity, be described as 

 one, or as a sample of its class, even in one city or town, 

 not to speak of a much greater disparity when embracing 

 the whole of the country. To attempt to describe a livery 

 or sale stable, as it appears or is managed in one part of 

 the city, would be a work of supererogation, as it would or 

 could not apply to others diiferently situated and managed. 

 To the groom more than to any other agency may be 

 ascribed the uniformity of management in the stable of the 

 gentleman throughout the country, and to the architect 

 and builder, together with other circumstances, such as 

 the means or taste of the owner, do we ascribe the uni- 

 formity and style of stables in one city and the difference 

 which may exist in the stables of another. 



The stable and its management claiming the most per- 

 fection in our view of what a stable and proper care of a 



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