Hidden Away in London.

Otago Witness, Issue 2363, 8 June 1899, Page 61

Hidden Away in London.

Everyone knows what a stable means ; what such a place is like; but few would credit in what extraordinary places in London horses, donkeys, and mules can be and aro hidden away.

There are, for instance, buildings in which fie whole of the ground floor rooms are occupied by costers' donkeys, and crowded as well. In another case, a tiny scullery formed the stable of a pony, and he took his meals out of the sink. When he had had his food, the bung of a piokle jar stopped up the pipe, the tap was turned on, and the manger became a horse trough. In hundreds of small shops, particularly those in the greengrocery line, the horse or donkey gets to his stable by going through tho shop and back parlour. Sometimes the quadruped is housed for the night in the cellar, reached by a slope of easy steps. ■ In one big stable belonging to a public company, this process is reversed. As the horses are unharnessed you will see them, in pairs, wending tlteir way up a slope, across which are fixed ridges, to gain their first floor lodgings.