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The stable is ventilated by fresh air coming in through 

 flues in the south wall and by a movable fan-light over the 

 door, and the foul air is taken out by ventilator Y close to 

 the floor and by a large opening at the ceiling, both open- 

 ing into the central ventilating shaft, which is warmed by 

 the waste heat from the tank of the boiler. There is almost a 

 total absence of stable smell, except when the weather is so 

 cold that less air than usual can be admitted. The oats come 

 down in wooden pipes in the back of the saddle-case open- 

 ing into the stable. Under the stairs is a closet for buck- 

 ets, brooms, and hose. 



The first floor is 11 feet high in the clear, which with 

 1 foot for the joists leaves 3 feet for the height of second 

 story at the sides. It is 9 feet in the clear under the ridge- 

 pole, giving ample space for hay, straw, and feed, with a 

 comfortable coachman's dressing-room, without adding 

 much to the apparent height of the stable from the outside. 

 A large hay-door, made like a dormer window, opens on to 

 the back street. The large sliding coach-house doors open 

 on to the end of a twenty foot street which runs straight out 

 from them. 



The building has thirteen-inch brick walls, and is lined 

 and finished throughout with yellow pine varnished, there 

 being no plastering. 



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