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minutes if I can so arrange it. The way he sets 

 about it will at once show me whether he is a groom 

 or an impostor. I think that it will be an advan- 

 tage to some of my readers if I endeavour to explain 

 how a horse should be groomed. 



First of all I must inform him that in a single- 

 handed stable two horses are, if he has to exercise 

 them or go out with a carriage, quite as much as a 

 man can manage properly. Where a great many 

 horses are kept one man to every three will suffice, 

 or should do so. Two men can do a stable of five 

 horses, provided that they are not both of them 

 taken out with carriages, etc. To exercise and 

 groom two horses and clean a carriage, and do the 

 work well, is a hard day's work for any man, and 

 he should never be taken away for other purposes. 

 Of course, there are heaps of cases where a single 

 man has to do a great deal more than this, but then 

 the work is not, and cannot, be done as it should. 

 The horses are not properly groomed ; the carriage 

 and harness are not kept up to the mark, and the 

 man, being jjressed for time, is never clean or well 

 dressed, and instead of being able to turn out with 

 his breeches and boots well cleaned and put on, 

 they are very much the reverse, and probably he 

 is compelled from press of work to cover his 

 trousered legs and ill-cleaned boots with an apron 



