text:  He had ever given his willing support to his employers and served them faithfully; and if they were as well acquainted as quadrupeds with the secrets of the stable they would learn the fallacy of their favourite maxim of "Measures not men " and trust the administration of their affairs to upright and steady grooms rather than those fanciful half-educated gentlemen who were perpetually changing the rules of the stables and altering the form of the measures whereby they embarrassed the regular feeding and training of the inmates without producing any practical good