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slang) their * body lining and even then they must be brought 
to bear this sort of treatment by degrees ; for let a medical man, in 
the middle of winter, purchase of a private gentleman a pair of 
horses which have been accustomed to different treatment, in a 
month, or perhaps less, he would want another pair. We should 
recollect that gentlemen’s horses are in their stables, taking one 
day with another, perhaps twenty hours out of the twenty-four, 
and when they are exposed to the air they are at exercise or work. 
Consequently, the proper warmth of the air they breathe in their 
stables is of vital importance to them ; and though I most decidedly 
object to their breathing a hot damp air all this time, I am quite 
sure, clothe him as you will, a horse will never feel comfortable, 
or be in condition, that breathes a cold one. How should we like 
(clothe us in blankets if you will) to be kept night and day with our 
head out of the window ? A cold stable is in a limited sense some- 
thing like this : — let me ask my friends this simple question, — 
Have they never on a cold night (though with plenty of bed clothes 
on) put their noses under them ? If they have, I need say no more 
on the luxury of inhaling cold chilling air, or its reverse.” 
Along with good, sensible, analogical reasoning like this, we 
have practical hints and suggestions concerning the fitments and 
furniture of stables, such as could proceed from him alone to whom 
matters of the kind have come home through sheer practice and 
steady observation. Take, for example, such remarks as — 
“ The lower windows (of a stable) I have had made to slide right 
and left into the wall. They are less liable to be broken.” And 
on a “ moveable frame made to fit the window on the inside may 
be stretched the same kind of open material that is used for meat- 
safes : the windows can then be left open, and those positive pests 
to a stable in summer, the flies, are thus excluded.” 
There are several objections to long stall-posts ; and most of 
these apply likewise to the ornamental (?) balls which are, as 
a sort of substitute for long, placed upon short posts. 
The horse, after being turned round, in returning to his manger 
“ is forced to tuck his head and neck round like a turkey poult 
prepared by the poulterer. This takes him some little time to do ; 
and there are such things as grooms to be found who, instead of 
permitting him to do it at his leisure, have a habit of accelerating 
his motions by a flick with the duster : round he forces himself, 
making the standing creak again, and looking — and, indeed, being 
— frightened out of his wits, from supposing he has done something 
wrong. But, more than this, some timid horses, if told to ‘go round!’ 
