THE TURKISH BATH. &9 
Whilst here his lordship had requested me to put his horses 
in the Grand Prix of Paris. He had said he saw no harm in 
running them on Sunday. But this was not my view, as his 
lordship knew, and consequently he countermanded the 
entries in a letter in which he said that he concluded on 
mature consideration, ‘What might be right for the French 
people to do in their own country, was not quite the thing 
for Englishmen to do out of or in theirs.” 
Personally, I do not work my horses either on Christmas- 
day or Good Friday ; a matter of prejudice some will say. 
Still I do not like to do so; and although, of course, I do 
not mean to assert that such a thing as the fearful accident I 
have described as happening at Newmarket on the latter 
day might not have happened on any other day, it would 
not at all events have happened when it did, had the horses 
been in the stable, and probably would not have occurred on 
a subsequent day. Asa matter of fact I have never heard of 
any other accident so appalling during atrial. I hope I have 
said sufficient to influence those who practise Sunday labour 
to abandon it. Cardinal Wolsey is made to say, “And 
nature does require her times of preservation, which perforce 
I, her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my 
tendence to.” The lesson should not be thrown away. 
One other usage in stables, a modern innovation, fortu- 
nately shortlived, and now completely abandoned, I will just 
glance at in conclusion. We are not altogether free from the 
weaknesses of our Transatlantic brethren, who, great in ideas, 
indulge in theories that momently allure only to make the 
culminating disappointment the greater. Rather than be 
content with the numerous practical facts at hand for our 
guidance, to avoid one extreme we rush headlong into 
another. Sweating being condemned as too severe, we must 
