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choice), high up on the stall-posts, for hanging 

 harness, etc., on, when harnessing or unhar- 

 nessing. 



Everything which can possibly harbour one 

 speck of dust or dirt should be kept out of a 

 stable. Dust and dirt should be kept down with a 

 strong hand, remembering that the more articles 

 there are, the more dust ; the more dust, the more 

 dirt ; the more dirt, the more disease. I cannot 

 speak too strongly on this subject. What can be 

 more unsightly in a stable than a row of dusty, 

 dirty bottles, with here and there an old curry- 

 comb, a worn-out bandage or two, and perhaps, 

 crammed in between these, the stump of an old 

 tobacco-pipe ? And ten to one that a match-box, 

 which is sure to be smothered with lumps of tallow 

 (such match-boxes always are smothered with 

 candle-grease), is lying alongside of them, and very 

 probably the fag-end of an old tallow-candle. 

 Where articles such as these are to be seen in a 

 stable, it is needless to expect to see clean or well- 

 conditioned horses ; other things will be on a par. 

 The servant is a sloven, and the master is either 

 ignorant or a sloven too — ' like master, like man.' 

 Probably the whole establishment, inside and out, 

 partakes of the same character. As fir as the 

 stable is concerned, I should very much doubt if 



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