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horse will be destroyed by a few days’ inattention in the autumn. 
Let him once get his coat up at this time, you may look forward 
to early summer to see him with a fine one. Nature is uncom- 
monly obstinate in this particular : if she is permitted to put a 
pea-jacket on a horse about the time I mention, I defy art to take 
it off again unless she cuts it off. 
“ I have heard a diversity of opinion between the good or bad 
effects of two different modes of keeping horses warm, some ad- 
vocating very cool (I do not say absolutely cold) stables, with 
heavy clothing ; others very warm stables, with lighter clothes ; 
and these two opposite modes I have heard discussed by men who 
were quite competent judges of the matter. I should be very 
presumptuous, where such men disagreed, to pretend to say which 
was wrong ; but I can have no hesitation in saying the man who 
took the middle course would be right. Supposing, however, it 
was necessary to adopt one of the two extremes, and any one 
complimented me so far as to ask which I should consider the least 
bad , I should say, a stable somewhat too warm and moderate 
clothing. I reason by analogy. We will suppose two persons to 
be sitting in two different rooms, the one in a room at the ordinary 
warmth of a comfortable dining-room — say 65 degrees — and clad 
in an ordinary evening dress ; the other to be placed in a room ten 
degrees colder, but so belamb’s-woolled and bepiloted as to bring 
the temperature of his skin to the warmth of the other. Let them 
both strip to their shirt and drawers, which we will consider to 
stand in the place of the natural coat of the horse, and go out. I 
consider the man throwing off his sweaters would feel the sudden 
exposure of his skin accustomed to such clothing more severely 
than the other would the change of atmosphere. Against this, I 
am aware it may be said, how severely we feel the cold coming 
out of a theatre or crowded ball-room. No doubt we do, and so 
would a horse coming out of a stable of the same temperature : 
but when I allude to stables somewhat or rather too warm, I do 
not mean one at 80 degrees ; and when I state I prefer one rather 
too warm than one rather too cold, I mean it in the case of 
gentlemen’s horses, not of a street cab horse, or even a medical 
gentleman’s pair, or the one condemned to shiver for half an hour 
at some old lady’s or hypochondriac gentleman’s door, while the 
worthy Esculapius is persuading either that their case requires the 
most delicate care; or in a case which, in justice to our medical 
friends let us allow, is of quite as frequent occurrence, namely, 
where the fancied invalid endeavours to convince the medico of 
the same thing. Such animals (not the invalid or medico) must 
be kept cool in every way, both as to stable and clothing : so far 
as their outsides go, their warmth must emanate from (in stable 
