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The stalls are arranged across the ship, so that the 

 animals stand at right angles to the direction in which the 

 ship is moving, and this is the only position in which they 

 should be carried, as they are then prepared to meet the 

 rolling of the vessel. If pitching were more common than 

 rolling, which fortunately it is not, the animals would have 

 to stand in the long axis of the vessel. 



The stalls are made of four posts, uprights, or stanchions, 

 secured above and below ; fitted into them is a breast and 



DECK 



Fig. 211.— Front view of Horse Stall on Board Ship. A, front stanchions ; 

 B, breast bar ; C, swinging stop ; D, manger ; E, front cant ; F, plat- 

 form. 



haunch bar, and separating or side bars. The breast and 

 separating bars are movable, the haunch bar is fixed (Figs. 

 211, 212, 213). 



As each animal is placed in its stall, the separating bars 

 are put up by sliding them into a groove, the breast bar is 

 put in, and the animal's head tied up. The next horse is 

 dealt with in the same way. Each horse is then in a sort 

 of trevis. 



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