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The
*
is
an
ignorant
Mayhew
bondservant'
graceful
his
to
tyrant
horse-owners
modem
of
humane
most
"
of
history
The
*
'
utility
a
every
endeavours
human
against
exist,
to
struggle
is
kingdom
this
in
horse
almost
to
of
it
deprive
Mayhew
"
The
*
eye
does
not
accustomed
gets
soon
'
it
perceive
to
then
and
deformity,
Clark
Bracy
"
more
"
*
No
foot,
horse
Old
'
no
"
than
does
prevents
Astley
Philip
cures'
who
he
Certainly
*
Saying
he
who
HOESES
AND
EOADS
OE
HOW
TO
KEEP
A
HORSE
SOUND
:0N
HIS
LEGS
BY
FREE-LANCE
BEING
A
SERIES
OP
'THE
FROM
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PAPERS
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is
generally
a
numbers
horses
of
legs
at
laid
misfortunes
accepted
this
these
the
in
It
is
public,
can
be
way
by
neither
the
has
has
been
the
knowledge
benefit
London
benefited
nor
rewarded,
:
August
their
practical
to
results
The
given,
of
amount
put
kind
their
by
horses
many
1880.
the
in
their
patent
any
nothing
to
his
of
and
in
any
principles.
motives
book
are
is
;
and
published
already
favour.
upon
sell,
prejudiced
disinterested
efforts
30,
off
rejection
or
before
that
his
from
palm
has
from
written
to
author
adoption
He
are
combat
Appendix.
the
as
certain
a
be
to
On
written.
advanced.
them
attempted
not
To
gentlemen
of
the
them.
were
principles
three
by
appear
are
these
and
;
animals
excited
several
experiment
permission,
poor
for
they
and
obtained
the
papers
appearance
lameness
by
unavoidable
as
interest,
work
for
belief,
first
the
off
and
all
nearly
whilst
age,
large
feet
the
in
out
worn
premature
a
frequently
two
are
that
fact
acknowledged
he
by
reaping
CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHAPTER
Brakes
and
Springs
I.
Vehicles
to
1
CHAPTER
Douglas
Horse-shoeing
on
Pembroke
Lord
II.
Street
Accidents
and
Brakes
"
and
Mayhew
"
Servants
on
10
.
CHAPTER
Arsenic
Nostrums
and
Hoof-ointments
17
CHAPTER
Litter
"
for
"
"
'
Stoppings
'
III.
Antimony
"
.
and
Xenophon
Stalls
"
IV.
Lord
Physicking
Pembroke
and
on
Blistering
Bare
Paving
the
Bearing
"
Rein
22
CHAPTER
Shoeing
Pembroke
Lord
V.
Servants
on
"
Lupton
"
Farriers
"
Fitting
the
Foot
the
to
Shoe
Calks
jurious
In-
"
of
Effects
" "
Douglas
Brushing
on
Cold
fitting
Shoes
Fitting
"
by
"
burning
Shoeing
on
in
them
Spain
on
"
.29
CONTENTS
Vlll
PAGE
CHAPTER
Youatt
the
on
Horse
St.
'
than
more
of
Tip
Crust
'
Julien
'
Miles
Shoes"
An
"
Pound
a
Lafo"se
"
of
Weight
VI.
Ounce
Douglas
"
Expansion and
on
Lunette
"
Percival
on
that hurts
41
'
VII.
of Shoeing,
Tips
'
"
'
"
'
Horse
'
*
"
sameness
the Horse's
'
Foot, and
'
OriginalIdeas
CHAPTER
The
*
'
could
*
is
who
He
'
Short
"
'
in
more
'
Kangaroo
Pressure
Foot
'
India
"
St. Bell
"
Shoeing Mayhew,
the
Douglas on
"
"
Horses
our
pairs of
'
48
.
and
Pumice
Economist'
does
prevents
CharUer
"The
four
out
wear
Pads
of
Life
average
Sole
"
Nature
strict
a
'
System
of
wanted
are
VIII.
Impecuniosus
and
Imitation
Nature
short
'
"
Cushions
Rubber
on
Shoe
Charlier
the
on
*
'
Charlier
.
and Professor
Mayhew
It is the Shoe, not the Road,
Impecuniosus says there is
about
all existingWritings on
'
by
Tips
the
much
too
'
of the
.
Expansion entirelyprevented hy present Mode
favoured
or
Contraction
CHAPTER
but
tells
Shoe
Structure
the
on
Trotting
Heel
the
at
Back'
the
on
American
Feet
"
than
Shoe, and
'One
"
'
Horse
PhilipAstley,
he
who
'
cures
the Charlier
'
Tip'
with
impossible
Stanley says Navicular Disease is
the Charlier System
Experience of Messrs. Smither
with Charlier
Shoes
American
lier
Experience of Char"
"
"
'
Toe'
'
Tips
'
"
Four
inches
of
Iron
curled
round
the
54
CONTENTS.
IX
CHAPTEK
Description of FrogFitting,and
Hot
when
Affair
an
of
*
Mayhew,
Growth
in Ireland
and
is
quite
have
with
Moscow
from
in the Indian
War
Zidu
'
"
Practices
the
Retreat
"
of
Horses
and
Diseases
and
Lameness
Army
70
and
'
the
Studs
of the
Feet
Sandcrack,
Seedy
and
in
from
Legs
83
.
The
"
.
Hoof
often
Pumice
Water-
'
leads
Foot
Unshod
to
Hard
"
the
to
Freedom
it gets
and
Toe,
favourable
are
Horses
XI.
Brittle
"
tive
Compara-
"
Unshod
"
in
Tailors,etc.
are
remarkable
Treatment
effective
more
.
Horses
Streets
CHAPTER
Hoof
Unshod
"
Frozen
on
their
Mexico, etc., and
Roads
"
X.
in the
'
Inutilityof Cogs
cure
on
Shoeing only
'
Unshod
Mutiny
Farriers
"
Daily Telegraph
Brittle
Horn
.
Horses
the
ing'
Back-
unnecessary
educated
been
'
on
Strength
"
of
All
"
CHAPTER
Unshod
feet
his
upon
Excessive
"
Routine,
they
Napoleon
stands
Russell
Facilityof
"
Veterinary Surgeons cling to
which
in
Shoes
on
Donkeys
of Unshod
Toes
'
Clips
Toe
PAGi
Sole, by Douglas"
and
Horse
a
Horse's
the
of
'
IX.
Hoof
1^1
.
CHAPTER
of
Letter
Burdett
on
Hot
Paring the Hoof
Gradual
bred
for
Roads
Cold
"
Stalls
shod
are
in
cold
of
in
'
"
Lieut.-Col.
"
has
Osmer
England
Mayhew
"
Metropolitan
the Seeley Shoe
with
to
of Countries
on
bare
known
*Our
and
North
"
Horses
Writers
Ancient
"
'
Journal
Shoeing
Characteristics
"
Sound
Farm
*
'
Breaking
Different
are
in
XII.
Shoeing, Greasing, Stopping,'and
Horses
Tramway
"
'
Aberlorna
*
.
Douglas
where
Stone
Unshod
moist
Climate
on
unshod
go
"
Horses
and
Wood
Horses
and
Opposers
of
go
hard
gress
Pro100
..........
a
CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHAPTER
^
'
Aberloriia's
Horse
second
His
of
of
Growth
Horses
ones
its
the
Nature
of
Use
in
of
go
lame
go
sound
of
Horseshoes
unshod
working
Stoppage
of Traffic
in which
Slipping is
Hill
looked
dred
Societies
"
rises
only
"
The
the
land
Eng'
Lancet
men
Gentle-
two
England
paper
News-
"
Hill
false
The
"
and
Light
119
at
XIV.
about
The
*
"
of
in
CHAPTER
Ludo:ate
in
Slipping of Horses,
the
Ludgate
on
of
Physiological Light,
a
Horses
Complaints, about
roads,
People
Foot
"
Unshod
those
of
Success
"
in
good
over
Horse's
a
Tips
Exuberance
the
over
His
"
on
Touf^hness,
Indefensibility, in
the
on
America
"
the
of
Putting
"
'
Journal
Farm
Tips
and
Horn
'
description Ignorance
worst
very
with
unshod
the
in
in South
Shod
"
whilst
Letter
shod
Experience
Horses
of
Second
XIII.
Bearing
in
feet
four
Reiii
hun-
every
only required
on
129
Cripples
XV.
CHAPTER
Brittle
Hoof
the
says
existing
sprung
from
The
Oharlier
'
invented
of
Ignorance
"
Ideas
is the
the
on
"
Foot
Common-sense
Shoe
Fore
of H.
running
them
Feet, with
from
of
Jennings
in
the
Standard,* instance
Lady
ever
135
CHAPTER
and
says
'
.
Custom
'
have
Fearnley
"
most
Impecuniosus
Horse's
altogether
roots
wrong
'
Farriers
wearing
of
.
.
XVI.
training
Racehorses
their Races
Hind
Feet
impaired
high
with
Heels
unshod,
Tips
bare
"
Sight in
on
her
on
their
^Evening
a
Young
Boots
"
CONTENTS.
XI
PAGE
of their
treatiueut
affect
to
America
Feet
Veterinary
Dentists
and
Weavers"
Crib-biters,Wind-suckers,
of
in
Officer
Cavalry
a
favourable
His
"
*
considered
Hunter
with
Tips
Col.
Anstruther
XVII.
Experience
"
Hunters
on
Miles
"
in the
on
Horse
Experience
Horse
Light Tips
will
Hacks
for
166
for
Rein
Cruelty
thereof
'
"
of Cure
at
be
long
'
'
"
It
Docking
"
'
'
bv
caused
present employed
"
*
Ride
Cab
and
Calks
on
and
"
the
various
'
Drive
Horses
Horse
Unscientific
"
Shoeing
Charlier
Shoe
kinds
of Shoes
"
ing
Bear-
"
together
Tail
"
'
"
section
Vivi-
is
Cruel
Mode
165
Coachmen
.
.
.
XIX.
Tramway
"
"
graceful
Shoe
them
Shoeiuo:
CHAPTER
The
Hacks
and
Horse's
a
Horses
Park
Iron
pulls
'
"
"
"
the
Stumbling
Shoes
Action
through
'
to
heavy
as
Abnormal
Screws
Cutting
exposed
Gentlemen
Elderly
Concussion
"
percha
Gutta-
XVIII.
as
"
with
"
.....
not
wear
Horses
CJarriage
Action
Must
"
Naiiing
'
Foot
s
CHAPTER
Lady's
Impecuniosus
Transpiration continually
Natural
"
ooing:
'
of
Unilateral
on
Thompson's
Soles
as
Unshod
and
Tips
"
.........
CHAPTER
The
'
Telegraph
Daily
of
Experience
in
143
Horses
The
111-
to
is known
Teeth
of the
Caries
"
attributable
he
may
Action
Horse's
a
"
Letter
Horses
of
Diseases
Many
Bracy
Van, Tramway,
Omnibus,
Mules
of
Mr.
"
Mules
Clark
"
"
Fearnley
Mr.
Mayhew
on
Fearnley
on
the
176
CONTENTS.
Xll
PAGK
CHAPTER
Question
iu
in
'
Field
'
tlie
London
to
as
No
XX.
nnsliod
an
Roads
hard
too
working
Horse
for
Horse
Xenophon
"
Erroneous
hard,
on
of
Idea
'
"
stand
Flint
upon
Bracy
"
Foot'
Bracy
"
in
organic
an
one
Horn
Roads
of
nice
soft
and
Hertfordshire
'
etc.
'
to
You
"
'
shod
something
Floors,
"
treat
cannot
Stable
rough
unshod
an
"
the
shod
body
Clark
and
it
Difference
on
the
were
of
unshod
organic
in-
an
miserable,
the
'
Clark,
if
as
coerced,
Growth
of
Failure
Horse
"
of
Clark
Bracy
and
Miles
produce
to
perfect
a
shoe
Horse187
CHAPTER
Asphalte
different
and
Paving,
Dissatisfaction
that
"
Method
ordinary
XXI.
of
Opinions
with
reigns
Shoeing
concerning
regard
to
it
the
by
Transmission
"
Parents,
of
Statistics
Horses
Diseases
as
in
the
to
Diseases
Army
by
produced
"
of
the
Shoeing,
Feet
a
Shoeing
and
National
French
"
Legs
of
Question
the
',
.198
"
|
I
Appendices
IxDEX
210-224
225
HOESES
AND
EOADS;
OR,
HOW
TO
KEEP
HOESE
A
SOUND
CHAPTER
SPRINGS
In
passing,
are
the
horse
;
said
indeed,
;
time
to
he
veterinary
the
works
'
it
is
that
age
springs
;
the
to
any
real
to
for
still
sent
prekinds
about
writing
is
remains
for
theme
a
a
so
be
to
long
very
least.
us
draw.
written
in
states,
question
B
being
be
at
of
one
the
upon
should
nent
emi-
an
demonstrator
intelligence
cart
vehicles
hew,
May
formerly
the
the
consider
College,
has
he
disgrace
a
much
all
written
been
affords
surgeon,
Veterinary
Royal
various
let
obliged
often
he
afford
the
say
with,
begin
is
will
to
come,
To
field
fertile, that
he
has
Much
at
are
of
improvements
after.
the
but
and
extensive
agriculturists
economical
sought
being
VEHICLES.
TO
which
through
crisis
the
LEGS.
HIS
I.
BRAKES
AND
ON
horse,
of
built
whether
the
the
that
sent
pre-
without
living
HORSES
and
thews
shall
this
metal
?
to
not, according
(or may
eyes) have
two-wheeled
which
or
only
not
heavy
waggons
Granted
; but
with
brake
the
they
are
they
are
a
to
which
fact,
use
wheel,
be
breaks;
next
the
at
all.
team
but
of
apply them,
of
case
the
tire
distances
put
the
chain,
the
against, while
the
spoke carrying
violent
away
jerk
that
one
uses
proper
horses,
other
cases
necessitate
and
is
whatever
from
a
another
wheel
one
exposed
;
to
at
the
spoke
the
facets
into
worn
skid.
a
or
runaway
they
as
left
are
various
to
in the
Even
also
are
four-wheeled
chain,
put
brakes,
they
our
a
brake,
to
with
when
case
of
made
they
They mostly stop only
in the
corresponding
may
in
Continent
utility that
and
the
the
of
injiu'yby having
chain
be
behind
them.
remove
cannot
celerity
no
far
stoppage
with
these
; in
of
fitted
the
work,
that
said
here
be
may
fitted
or
away,
be
are
same
can
run
which
vehicles, whether
all
for down-hill
serve
with
upon
use
are
and
full
connected
on
the
to
four-wheeled,
will
It
stand.
to
been
that
remarked
horses
when
applied
have
who
Those
which
upon
which
but
is
the
be
to
vehicles
other
all
d., which
give
to
or
inanimate
"
iron
than
burden,
s,
springs,
necessary
touched,
not
introduced.
their
for
and
has
"
to
Mayhew's opinion.
is another
subject
carts, waggons,
Mayhew
upon
matter
much
is
there
But
imposed
"
more
assent
the
pronounces
Thus
nothing
may
the
Fact
?
answer.'
hearty
be
Eeducing
cheaper
endure
should
sinews
whether
ROADS.
AND
spoke
thrown
also, as
times
some-
on
well
the
as
those
that
down
comes
the
smooth
break
of
wheels,
horses
driven
worked
by
sometimes
such
from
by
vehicles
which
enabling
then
can
makes
'off'
it
put
without
brake
or
vehicles,with
horses
A
only
horse
hill ;
managed
in the
a
but,
for him
but
on
that
the
other
slip
throw
his
have
to
lever.
He
which
off
the
horses
that at every
B
2
he
action
to
either
lever
is
Two-wheeled
one
of these
safelyused.
work
when
contrary, it should
the
of
shaft,
one,
horses, with
end
the
in
the
down
thus
walk
single horse, they
has a ring at the
the vehicle.
dozen
for
; and
being safer,the
As
not
rack
ring
a
thus
shafts, are
should
rope,
pull
behind
half
which
For
generally
handle,
cranked
carters
a
stopping
'on.'
placed
sometimes
by
a
knot,
a
toothed
a
another
to
fast
a
with
is
blocks
form.
in
vary
not
wheel
dickey they are
lever
easilypull loose, and
of the
down
driver
the
the
when
even
or
through
passes
do
as
or
is attached
which
to
road
driven
alongsidetheir teams,
most
commonly a
are
top,
smooth
a
on
and
are
as
entire
an
wheels
screw
a
lever
a
effect
to
that
brakes
box
a
of
means
same
biting,by friction,the
These
breaks.
always
axle, and they
are
it is found
much
as
stopped, and
the
as
skidding
tires
momentum
almost
the
on
tight enough
up
of the
stoppage
Continent
the
on
wheels
screwed
not
with
used
both
applied to
axletree
also.
driver
brakes
The
the
until
on,
ground and is either broken or
horses
being generallyinjured, and
shaft
sometimes
so
the
on
bent, the
are
after,and
come
3
BRAKE.
THE
descent, however
going
be
so
gentle,
4
AND
ROADS.
respite
from
HORSES
have
should
he
set-off
load
a
with
are
most
is
instance,
bad
are
frequently skids
but
are
which
and
"
the
stoppage
the
so
careless
their
to
put them
horses
poor
It
above
they
street
all
others, being
have
because,
skill
attainable
might
to
what
see
looks
if
as
trucks,
or
mechanical
no
engineer
them
noticed
even
skill
for
improvement.
left
entirely to
large
ought
to
see
It appears
emulation,
their
but
the
quite
are
predecessors.
It
must
"
admit
and
one.
pockets,
the
that
as
their
on
nical
mecha-
best
engineer
an
trucks
; but
the
near
in
horses
there
was
or
room
were
diced
ignorant, preju-
farriers,who
satisfied
be
it
streets, where
if this branch
of
as
owners
rolling stock,
horse
surveillance
the
off
way,
brakes
other
drivers, horsekeepers, and
no
horse
to
went
ever
of
railway companies,
do for their
could
he
and
their
easily appointed
have
"
frame.
their
for
for
account
on
indirect
they employ
as
tinent.
Con-
always
of
attention
paid
not
vans,
they
such
for
on
Bridge,
more
out
the
that
astonishing
gons,
wag-
the
on
direct
a
a
his
with
pays
is
are,
in
pay
and
on
not
in rather
masters
horse
the
does
pay
one.
especiallyso
applied
traffic
Unfortunately they only
whilst
weathers
not
necessity for stopping
the
many
always put
not
in certain
"
when
very
trucks
of
sort
a
apparent
heavy
skid
or
as
endures
is
slight descent, as the brake
The
approaches to London
every
of
this
besides
chain
the
he
There
four-wheeled
our
work,
labour
hill.
up
this
for
reasons
hard
the
against
drawing
Even
some
to
go
understood
have
on
like
that
6
HORSES
applied
work
them,
steer
clear
'
coach
a
Act.'
of the
is very
mostly
difficult
as
will
to
this
had
with
a
blister
rest
the
any
being
horse
future
of the
of their
he
be
than
those
having, as
a
of
are
in
the
more
extended,
adopted by
rule, no
dividends
to
general,
or
pay,
as
a
this case,
a
only
special
the
reduce
the whole
over
their
on
to
horse
a
enjoy
to in
spread
brewers
soon
blister.
a
means
Improvements
to
with
land,
are
as
mentioned
were
mechanical
the
of
remedies,
; for
rest
a
it
again, without
referred
They
mild
life
to, and
expected
not
be
and
violent
sufferingwith
is
horses, which
kingdom.
even
be
ones.
power
therefore
should
first appearance
work
to
put
benefit
cannot
on
days
a
the
resorted
are
ignorant
rest
useful
on
are
work, although
of
the
of
taken
is
the
even
facilityfor applying
work
let
contrary,
of
care
long
a
loss
be
Kailway companies
as
ment,
treat-
up,
the
on
the
advise
means
blistering,"c.,
having
in
but,
;
set
once
general, however,
In
possible the
or
cure
mostly
warning
disease.
few
diseases,
prolongation
a
if the
as
any
owners,
intelligent veterinary
an
but
;
also
such
that
not, it should
if it is
or,
"
increasing under
on
If
remedies
known
these
of
any
in, he
horse,
said
been
horse
unprofitable to
well
pretty
farriers.
means
to
cruelty.
go
called
manage
of reckless
result
the
are
they
yet
safely through
driven
be
may
which
extremely
of
four
it has
of which
law,
diseases
that
"
hoofs together,and
interferes.
They
one
no
These
It is
be
and
and
the
alone
their
keep
to
ROADS.
AND
part
and
would
useful,
who,
distillers,
perhaps
work
BIGOTRY
by that,
losers
Still,no
by
considered
many
know
account
the
to
;
longer.
and
they
horseflesh.
in
contrary
their
still
;
trucks
not
are
them
last
prodigal
by breaking
better
even
into
they
and
;
animals
this
7
SERVANTS.
mark
their
as
takes
one
likelythey
do
the
under
horses
their
OF
are
Most
they
down
may
every
descent.
Brakes
the
of rests, and
shape
bounds
the
possibilitythat
of
of such
care
that
horses
they
might
luorse
horses
all about
should
they
if
in
all
at
in the
of
case
to
them
them
for
under
better,'to
class
of
But
carts
use
old
the
confess
to
a
and
that
phrase
an
that
man
know
They
Of
course,
all
isting
ex-
and
them
having
on
in
system
the
very
should, if
They
horses
young
longer time,
a
formerly
brought
that
;
are,
but
any
that
believe
seeing
on
horses,
old
from
stage.
satisfied
brakes
entirely cured, especially
advanced
an
be
be
with
for the
opinion.
to
the
ledge
acknow-
change.
own
led
thus
can
reasonable,
out
be
not
diseases
their
in
"
of
to
observing
the
of
much
shape
they generally
as
exceptionally intelligent and
they thought
in
within
is
brought
extract
to
the
losses
connected
men
the
bigoted
It
be
might
difficult
be
in
more
the
none
were
and
but, ignorant
it
still
forced
horseflesh.
of
acquisitions
new
than
less
infinitely
cost
less
;
pointed
degree,
they
and
horses
it
free
were
a
arrested
than
be
may
generally
amongst
common
from
'
did
this
men.
agriculturists extensively use
without
any
means
of
breaking
them
two-wheeled
down
hill ;
8
the
and
hills
in
met
with
both
found
In
these
They
load
near,
and
as
the
they really should
present
hard
a
thoughtfully
horse
injuring him
but
whether
it
really
The
foregoing
such
to
up
is
at
consider
make
hill,
a
and
so
a
load
to
lead
drawing
in
said that
the
'
them
"
certain
ascent
expected, and
required two,
the
it up
this
rational,
?
horsemen,
legs ;
gave
'
but
the
or
There
that
'
one
it is also
horse
the
'
a
another
horse
will
mistake,
it
a
is
can
is
as
a
it is
that
evident
weight
certain
singleshaft horse is
best
to keep back,
to
two-wheeled
wear
which
weight
same
to
bring
this
when
out
believe
drag
Is
cart.
well
saying, common
rational
same
been
but
;
economical,
even
is
in
It has
three, horses
often
or
incline
same
his
do
help, the
mechanical
without
has
obliged, to
a
other
horse
one
another
yet often
;
any
to
choose.
generally interpreted. Besides,
horse
can
no
possibly pull over
a
made
open
immense
fact, an
in
great fallacy
it is
kills
buy
to
been
they
if
which
work
enough
money
have
remarks
although
cases,
parties to profitby
up
should
down
than
more
living,'
which
case,
profitableto
going
work
to
their
earn
they
is
when
'
their
in
mentioned.
hill.
up
in
do
one;
hard
work
horses
their
be
much
least, as
they try
as
to
be
slippery.
so
hitherto
heavily,
carts
make
so
suffer,at
those
of
any
those
always
not
horses
their
cases
constantly to
are
steeper than
and
although
London,
in
ROADS.
roads
country
longer
deterioration
as
AiS^D
HORSES
sidered
con-
among
four
that
requisite number
pairs of
Nature
of
legs
OF
ECONOMY
she
that
the
they
is
of
use
become
If
it
used
such
it
with
at
is
may,
be
to
should
ducing
the
upon
matter
the
abuse
that
burthen,
"
s.
d.,
of
heaviest
the
farmer's
thews
which
the
the
real
and
sinews
this
should
wood.
and
is
;
said
present
the
brake
a
metal
be
the
whether
or
inanimate
to
of
basket
living
about
justice,
from
without
built
language
intelligence
pony
whether
the
endure
imposed
that
use
the
in
equal
whatever,
be
being
question
lawful
forcible
least
the
to
vehicle
down
daughter,
should
disgrace
a
any
waggon
but
out,
worn
soon
their
in
not
for
designed
creatures
them.
that
age
is
Mayhew
springs,
that
so
of
made
It
man.
9
BRAKE.
other
all
to
gave
THE
cheaper
Ke-
?
10
CHAPTEK
HORSE-SHOEING
ON
DOUGLAS
A
VETERINARY
AND
was
miseries, diseases,
their
him
caused
Here
is
'
directed
the
to
of
the
descent
by
the
the
withstand
body,
which
did
that
it
in
too
I witness
horse
shaking,
a
in
manner
and
it
its fore
evidently
such
a
limbs
by
it
Horse-shoeing.'
day [thiswas
attention
of
a
driven
behind
had
with
;
it
was
of
to
at
stiffened,it
was
the
in
not
down
the
and, utterly
shod,
was
in
to
hind
its
advance
avert
hand.
powerless
eyes
was
was
gathered
legs well
picture
horse
animal
poor
luhich
knew
as
the
by
loads,that
one
helpless struggle
presented,
and
Hill
being
was
10th
"
The
pressure,
legs well under,
'
upon
crushing weight
the
unable, from
their
pitifulcondition
load, but
"
horses
to
stone] my
large waggon.
a
drawing
with
paved
was
caused
by
book
Ludgate
down
late
impressed
hill
a
BRAKES
SERVANTS.
Douglas,
dangers
part of his preface :
it
shafts
W.
much
down
write
to
Passing
whilst
its
and
AND
ON
Mr.
so
being pushed
ACCIDENTS
MAYHEW
surgeon,
Hussars,
Eoyal
STREET
"
PEMBROKE
LORD
II.
the
of
fall
Never
terror
as
starting, body
carried
down-
STRAIN
wards
against
left
its
that
before
it
their
easily have
if
resolved
been
nature
has
slipping
able
the
possible to
direct
to
the
use
supple
with
its feet
the
"
behind,
from
attention
public
to
it could
frog
pressure
even
ing
know-
since, and
unwarrantable
and
what
suffered,
provided
controlled
upon
of
thought
ever
namely,
"
cruel
present
had
feet
down
came
have
me
hind
and
fore
The
must
fell,has haunted
cushion
prevent
beast
horse
the
crash.
a
11
SINEWS.
direction, it
same
poor
if the
elastic
BACK
will, until
with
side
agony
its
the
slippingin
OF
the
to
of
system
I
shoeing
horses.'
book
His
foot and
the
on
he
but
;
is full of valuable
evils
of
(even supposing
might
horse
would
immense
to
back
for
hhn.
the
brake, and
all
that
of
by making
he
says
that
that
has
behind
wheel
one
dedicates
this
'
to
was
not
could
'
a
weight
to
back
proposes
of
prevent,
tendons.'
he
should
with
the
delusion
that
effect
towards
the
the
in
had
in the
chapter
flexor
the
tendon,'
horse
shaft
the
the
chief
Elsewhere
done
been
roll down
and
the
exertions
steep declivity,with
would
the
legs by
acquainted
Mayhew,
strain
he
that
friction
chieflypresent
descend
the
luork
skid.
to
is
has
a
by
momentum
it. The
upon
skill
nise
recog-
violent
labouring under
was
failing to
and
in his
he
tised
prac-
slipping) that
feet
"
Perhaps
this the horse
then
waggon
mechanical
breaking
which
the
his
commonly
shoe
the
them
on
in
the horse's
on
as
much
so
injure
put
mark
that
of
still
strain
hold
done
admit
not
shoeing
the
missed
remarks
a
load
descent
;
stress
is
he
states
12
HORSES
that
the
'
frame
machinery;
human
the
of
but
it
misrule.'
in
and
he
Amongst
in
How
this
down
Ludgate
in
go) ; yet,
occasion;
If the
great.
the
who
failed
to
horse
down
going
rough
over
or
of
man,
gentle-
shaft
at
diminished
the
the
was
street, it
no
The
both
the
but
their
the
faults
brougham
and
wanted
another
horses
had,
seriouslyinjured
close
his
to
he
which
both
wheels, he
the
enable
have
right
could
spot where
might
was
could
to the
sufficientlyto
much
very
have
least,he
to
carriage,
outset, and
at
ceeded
suc-
(although
the
occurred
was
pecuniary damage
brake
speed from
bolted
coachman
horse
was
had
a
trust
Street
into
ran
person
came
down
a
own
weather
The
the
way
and
he
or,
half ago,
society
their
always
Farringdon
entirelybefore
;
of
any
not
slippery.
into
of
this
form
they daily
a
to
prevent dangerous
gallop.
a
coachman
handle
rejoice
engine whistle,
instantlyapplied firmly to
speed
the
we
to
and
the
wrecked,
were
those
year
Hill
the
to
are
hill not
up
one
which
to
Fortunately,
the
is
of
a
if that
as
which
appendage
turning
it looked
both
there
frightat
the
and
hand,
societies
About
took
on
this
also
when
labour
the
those
horse
hurt.
saving
slippery paving,
Accidents
of drivers.
and
wilfulness
has
over
sensible
necks?
dry,
of
means
many
carriages,even
own
a
England,
driving.
have
the
than
stronger
roads.
country
possess
resist
speaks,
superfluous
hill,whether
is
Yet, strangely enough,
mechanics
excessive
horse
cannot
energetically as
seek
ROADS.
AND
have
stopped
collision
brought
himself
have
and
the
the
14
.
Mayhew,
:
the
"
informed
worst
other
servant
more
abuses
'
he says
:
"
minded
It is not
to
meant
overloading
or
imply
to
comfort
owner,
least the
do
at
to
himself, greater
prolongation
the
animal.
therefore,
object
to
The
to
or
asked
brake
the
:
advice
be
not
and
new.
The
of
all
enable
the
work,
latter
for
very
other
to
servants
will
his
quent
freof
should,
immediately
economical
that
begin
with
disease,
mismanagement
principle
way
they
all round
They
the
that
from
opinion of
for.
it is upon
everything
from
resulting
anxieties
to
guilty
are
would
the
these
not
"
but
freedom
from
narrow-
horses, in
;
economy
removing
besides
!
the
farrier.
amount
same
life,and
of
horse
farmers
general acceptation of these terms
neglect taking precautions which
horse
a
Betwixt
their
;
that
but
ally,the
overworking
'
bondservant
was
that
stable
master,
added
helpless
chosen
natural
their
mention
the
stands
classes
two
have
of
some
proprietors
tel valet.
Tel rmaitre
biofot.
ing
remov-
the
modern
masters
intelligentamongst
most
to amend
the
of
graceful
truthfully
might
he
this
which
of
of
his
to
domestic
no
without
But,
humane
most
No
impossible
perpetuation
ignorant tyrant
an
of
The
horses.
overthrowing
calling, or
a
are
and
stable
directly involved.'
is
servant
It is
generally
of
curse
power,
modern
any
abuses, with
the
such
position.
this
of
is the
here
ments.
senti-
authorities,
modern
most
our
similar
very
living, grooms
possesses
his
some
to
:
regulationof
the
of
one
all persons
Of
'
says
held
Pembroke
of
Earl
The
is
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
provement
im-
they object
all
economies,
ON
MAYHEW
therefore,is
for
to
owners
fetters
present, hold them.
they
self-imposed,and
are
the
hours,
all
key
at
them
off; apathy, only, prevents
Any
man,
his stable
free
and
at
he
as
this
throw
the
he
'man,'
own
mistake.
does
Is
of
career
he
of
to
offer
a
the
upon
however, with
dislike,or
which
them
the
for
readers
that
all this
to
is unable
He
to
appears
deeply regrets
present
race
sinceritydeny
of
that
a
to
those
redeeming
felt
this,
comments
compelled
He
grooms.
of malice,
gratification
a
continually
have
the
the
passed
those
has
that
knowledge
in
cite
to
great
to
proprietor
correctness
kee^ps
infer
Mayhew
one
their
and
conducive
surgeon
may
is the
or
is
will
to
as
rudimentary
of
stables
'
ten
suppose
veterinary
he
regard
a
low
a
or,
;
This
physiology ?
servant.
that
says
which
an
reallydoing
horses,
stable
a
a
yet he
; and
to
even
the
from
instance
as
a
as
others
is
leaves
every
bother.
any
of
and
anatomy
passing
he
understand
out
of
acquirement
long
into
chose,
such
neighbours ; but,
rational
it
sweeping dung
of
he
advice
remarking
their
without
going
them
their
of
out
paper,
regards
as
he
thing, when
same
doing
walk
tacitly that
upon,
point, nine
down
true
acts
or
could
cast
like.
they
At
be
the
to
comes
do
asks,
to
humiliating for
superior,which
his
with
from
whenever
It is
admit
to
be
for ever,
notice.
owner
should
when
them
of
them
them
determination,
moment's
a
educated
class
with
to
Their
about
carry
enable
them,
so.
thraldom
the
from
escape
their servants, at
in which
15
SERVANTS.
him
can,
indulgence
has
induced
of
"
16
HORSES
him
his
upon
'
'
knows
man
high
his
in
carter
or
any
horsekeeper,
with
replete
choose
should
the
case
age.
interest
modern
subject,^
the
last
the
conclusion
the
does
of
that
by
take
he
unless
his
horses,
should
is
in
of
about
he
for,
;
confidence
with
to
mismanagement
which
to
coming
that
hands
limits
back
nothing
time
own
of
in
ROADS.
supported
away
safe
is
the
authority,
right
others,
one
beyond
travel
to
AND
so,
should
not
let
and
works
him
less
read.
thing
the
than
The
entertainment
if
he
every
his
that
and
of
be
many
that
is
his
prevention
he
the
lack
animal,
that
of
subject
;
wishes
it
into
If
knowledge
so
century,
impossible.
own
So,
to
but
march
a
is
he
17
CHAPTEE
NOSTRUMS
ARSENIC
"
AND
^
It is well
*
'
nostrums
and
these
amongst
antimony
These
all
stablemen
active
be
"
men
First
own.
found
but
poisons
arsenic
they
they administer
cheap, and they
are
and
great
them
;
are
them
keep by
their
of
generally to
drugs
"
STOPPINGS.'
'
the
HOOF-OINTMENTB
"
receipts
are
with
favourites
secret.
'
two
"
ANTIMONY
that
known
III.
in
afford
can
to buy and
themselves.
(or will afford)
pay for them
that occasionallythey administer
It is true
an
dose
overall round, generally on
a
Saturday night,and
the
of dead
next
horses
is
morning a stableful
found
are
held, and the poison is
; post-mortems
discovered, and
a
magistrate.
is also true
to
the
owner,
These
even
and
at
very
a
horsekeeper finds
sometimes
this
nor
of
cases
intervals.
horses
He
; but
others, for
at
the
neither
drugging
active
small
he
remedies
by veterinaries,and
in
doses.
act
is
are
then
Nitre
c
as
warning
a
to
constantly reciu'ring
are
if he
single dose,
it
brings compensation
to
even
before
gets imprisonment,
seems
But,
himself
does
doing
but
only
is
kill
not
so
seldom
by degrees.
employed
in extreme
also
the
cheap,
cases,
and
is
18
secretly administered
to
to
kill the
to
sufficiently
their
undermine
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
alarming
an
will
dicta
constitutions.
should
'
poison
'
diabetes
'
;
kidneys
:
cause
:
"
bladder
inflamed
'
;
Acute
'
:
cause
of
use
agents,
'
does
serious
a
lasts
the
to
case
no
has
with,
deal
and
'
;
if he
until
called
has
entails
in.
ally
gener-
that
one
dolently
in-
their
'
can
for, he
sent
long time, and, consequently,
a
that
be
to
their
that
else
and
else
or
and
one
vet.
is
gentleman
this
well
very
round,
and
serious
things get
When
them
bring
not
that
by remarking
horses
understands
man
cine
medi-
(?)
innocent
these
"
inflamed
'
;
ignorant
the
to
of
'
drugs
lowing
fol-
cause
abuse
are
satisfythemselves
'
reference
"
The
either
phlegmatic owners
making
men
are
cause
diuretic
"
read, the
gastritis:
:
nitre.'
"
be
having
found
be
remarks
foregoing
not
"
right off,but sufficiently
horses
veterinary authorities
If
extent
usually
a
severe
loss.
this, many
Besides
'
balls
'
the
to
these
when
cost
as
the
owner
in
a
to
or
more
lay
stable
allowing
;
or
give
to
men
time,
very
even
little
should
than
arsenic, "c., and
their
soTne
even
medicine
then
asking
he
his
man
no
horses,
control
given.
could
be
Now
more
rarely go
them,
on
be
must
is
the
or
men
money
their
shape of
diuretic,' "c.,
be
the
own
'
allow
the
to
they
out
yet
them
why
for, because
thinks
in
'
same
easilyaccounted
far
medicines
physic,' condition,'
their
having, at
as
'
called
allow
and
powerful
order
to
men
knowingly
owners
so
and
necessary
generally guilty of
an
unmerited
HOOF
opinion
OINTMENTS
'STOPPINGS.'
AND
19
besides
its use,
being in the dark as
to what
drugs, secretlygiven by the said man
before,
have
caused
the disease, which, however, will
may
to
as
be attributed
There
anything
to
yet other
are
They
highly approved
these
rank
with
the
much
of
kept by
openly, and
more
by
some
all stablemen.
are
First
owners.
hoof-ointments,'be they either
'
stablemen,
difference
rather,
act.
own
'remedies'
used
are
his
but
their
or
'
a
which,
'
patent
their
to
as
positive insalubrity.
of
horn
the
at
for it shuts
'
:
the natural
refuse
as
to
'
If
to
this matter
"
'
up
shoe
a
surface
wardly,
out-
quences
conse-
"
with
their
with
sometimes
mixed
abominations,
above-mentioned
for
of
ruinous
will either
at
them
many
servants
in
of
the
!
Cowdung,
by servants,
that
horn, prevents
or
with
oil,
says
laugh
absurdity.' How
level
the
morsel
this,he
groom
of
a
on
are
owners
a
horse
arguments,
your
height
the
the
of
train
circulatinginwards
upon
tell
you
listen
being
horse
act
or,
almost
all
a
the
reaching
from
make
to nail
the
in
pores
air from
the
which
results.'
the
up
have
months
six
not
daily instead
made
were
would
of
end
moisture
and
kind
horse
occasionally,no
sound
to
this
applicationsof
secret
They
"
'
'
nonutiHty,
of some
or
always consist of admixtures
Tar, bees-wax,
following ingredients:
tallow
or
suet, and honey. jNIr. Douglas
if
amongst
a
it does
"
even
and
stopping
'
"
(or down)
its
that
to
condoned
use
is to
the
say,
level
c
2
is
some
firmly believed
by
their
the
stuffing
of
the
bottom
in
masters,
hoof
of
with
the
20
HORSES
shoe.
is
Cowdung
emollient,
that
glitters is
of
and
their
using
hoof
stupidity
As
natural
his
is carried
on
the
with
of
the
one,
and
the
least.
almost
utility.'This
truth.
naked
say,
is
he
kindness
as
he
the
applies to
that, whilst
horses,
open
how
to
to
he
censure
treat
wishing
is
them.
are
the
'
is
kingdom
to
language,
authority
as
others
much
No
one
of
of
but
is
it
:
from
This
of
it
deprive
having duly
can
at
struggle to
a
the
Strange
to
ill-advised
last observation
in
unwittingly laying
want
than
costly
excessively kind
be
him,
England,
history
English farmer, only
to
then
most
'
says
cruelty.'
from
more
with
in
that
sider
con-
thought
a
Some
here
his
over
meddled
endeavours
often
from
"
said
suffers
does
casting
time, the
same
Another
nothing
Everything
less
forcible
frequently
has
creatures.
in this
human
against
;
the
to
seems
one
still maintains
are
well
horse
every
they
colt, from
a
as
once
other
man
been
'
surrounding
in
every
generally useful
has
It
stopping
taken,
she
is, at the
most
cowdung
diseased.
without
her
of
who
'
career.
which
servants
this
exist
them
all
everything
powerful irritant
a
Nature
future
dominion
equally
is
mother
by
on
and
bondage,
his
with
do
horse
into
state
that
to
the
as
soon
is
otherwise
and
it brittle
render
but
everything that ignorance and
(up to the present time), to
with
devise
can
soft;
endeavours,
utmost
all sides
on
'
ointment
'
ignorant people
it is
emollient,
an
between
so
these
necessarilygold, and
not
being
ROADS,
supposed by
because
to be
instead
AND
so
far
to
his
himself
considered
possiblyaccuse
him
22
CHAPTEK
LITTER
XEI^^OPHON
"
FOR
STALLS
PEMBROKE
LOED
ATH)
PHYSICKING
"
IV.
BARE
ON
BLISTERING
AND
PAVIXG
THE
"
BEARING
REIN.
Servants
of
under
it is
a
the
and
are
from
Sunday
three
hours,
been
trying
in which
he
and
to
in
stand
to
It
part
Xenophon
:
feet
says
'
It will
merely
'
:
The
tender, and
by
causes
service, when
horses
his
comfort
as
they
probable, also,
to
as
praise
standing
use
swelled
on
of
of
bare
a
and
it.'
litter
legs ;
Lord
makes
moreover,
it,
into
instinct
of
stone
a
its
them.
to
improve
in
back
score
uncomfortable
for
bare
that
the
it, on
the
the
on
can
on
have
holes
by scraping
and
cool, harden,
constant
returning
that
it
Let
points.
find
much
well
in
wrote
day
Here,
left to themselves
dislike
being unhealthy, as
horse.
both
upon
ease
is
in their
all
been
of
as
the
to
church
will
rid
get
tity
quan-
some
stable, upon
morning
gangway.
takes
his
to
floor,having pushed
the
; and
will,perhaps, have
horses
they keep
benefit
a
go
to the
as
feet,ignorantlybelievingthat
wrong
proprietor
any
exacting
very
litter,and
horse's
comfort
again, they
be
to
for
straw
long
a
apt
are
ment
pave-
horse's
Pembroke
the
feet
it renders
23
LITTER.
the
reduced
their
to
the litter
only
;
bleeding
Swelled
which,
in
would
govern,
the
down
chargers do,
they
which
without
it. This
changing
with
gets saturated
the
injurious to
the
of the
a
laughed
it
to
the
very
with
the
it ;
be
muck
no
the
toe
the
more
He,
in.
at
not
yet,
it
horse
a
It is
the
was
best
moreover,
was,
and
quent
fre-
made
was
already
older
a
one
weeks
many
remark
that
is most
assign, as
bedding.'
;
;
affected
rotten
more
have
effective.
His
horse
this,and
the
veterinary had
of
course,
removed.
all,when
it for weeks
general health
disease,and
added, the
immediately
economy
to
shortly after
called
ever
when-
greater mistake
surgeons
this
for it in
cure
upon
substitute
leave
the
to
as
saying
scorn,
and, he
sawdust
seedy
to
best
toe
whom
possiblepreventive
ofi"cer's
alkalies,and
and
rank
'
seedy
to
groom
from
the
economy,
still
a
well
as
cough,
of
source
since,
is
Veterinary
of
causes
to
they
acids
feet
animals.
stand
to
view
a
straw, and
the
for
sawdust
straw
much
as
grease
army
bedded
not
so
a
stable.
with
owners,
in the
are
suffer
never
have
in the
are
Some
of
day,
in
mercury
found
which
seen,
unswell, by
like
been
ignorant
I have
and
swell
away
great saving
a
strain.
contractions, thrush, and
corns,
it
the
during
be
away,
glass.' It has also
troopers' horses,
weather
that
it
taking
where
stables
some
by repeated experiments, legs
leaving litter,or
by taking
size
physic, besides
and
frequently
legs maybe
natural
proper
farriers
and
grooms
of
delicate.
animals
had
The
considered
use
all
of
from
did
this
rotten
sawdust
the
is
right
24
HORSES
of
point
keep
view.
The
horse
your
reasonably
you
will
judgment,
night, and
thing
in
the
alarming
known
quite
bare
that
for
before
breeds
own
foul
atmosphere,
under
come
understood
is
straw
in
a
double
economy
it
itself is reduced
ailments,
is
the
can
the
; and
do
more
;
hot
'mistaken
and
economy
times.'
In
in
stabling,
of
and
ness,'
kindwell
should
the
visibly to
be
of
found
article
freer
course
be
case
the
upon
the
with
crotchets
horse, by being
work
long
us
fanciful
outlay
stitutions.
con-
level
demand,
very
great
sound
a
on
these
a
with
to
other
hard
sparingly, as
with
respect),by
headings
'
scarce
of
and
down
specially in
tries
coun-
so
some
dwell
'
present
using
from
not
economy
the
sought, in
is
in
sleep by night
hardiness
of
this
in
that
England
to
many
mistaken
'
or
but
is incurred.
straw
horses
do
the
first
dirty it
stable, and,
even
this
and
last
the
will
travellers
them
(in
our
which
horses
improve
we
the
removed
England
they
horse
of straw
many
possessing
But
the
expense
the
an3rthing
dirty portion should,
of
imported
are
reputation
horse
as
floor ; and
countries
The
to
cold
as
valuable
the
be
with
used
as
the
under
to
work
most
Straw,
should
out
is,how
get the
economical
the
;
solved
him.
put
it
night
It is well
and
as
carried
no
manner,
found
morning.
the
be
of
be
be
to
and
out
only
at
course,
health
can
thing
ROADS.
problem
in
be
else ; it should
little in
AND
from
of
the
year.
Certain
year,
a
classes
diminution
of horses
or
get,
cessation
in the
of
course
labour.
of the
This
is
PHYSICKING
looked
forward
to
of idea
that the
horses
'
'
rest
looks
forward
giving swing
his
then
master
for
of
slave
the
groom
is
not
if
they
to
for
that
from
the
educated
merits
the
In
law
the
Brazil
which
and
both
the
'
;
operation
it often
has
blisters
powerful of
'
most
one
the
inside
the
of
thus
kidneys,
and
hardly
to
patents
the
'
the
judices
pre-
the
sloth-
of
which
slave
-owner
himself;
have
each
to
would
free
course,
be
be
district
only lays
owner
has
on
the
likelyto
number.
favourite
frequently remains
sets
the
and
being
the
is
which
and
that
on
slaves
is,
vindictiveness, and
in force
as
ofiicial
joicing
re-
he
with
flogging they
merit
to
purpose,
applying
is
reprobation.'
power
flog his
to
of
hapless and
'
olBficial speciallyappointed in
Aloes,
Its
he
says
an
irritation
ferocious
wrong
Mayhew
is invested.'
'
man
stable-
empire
seldom
is
proprietor possesses
by
the
on
judged
it
The
they
opportunity
an
are
purges,
if
subjects for pity:
are
better
regular strokes,
before
he
blanche,
ignorance
anger
exceed
their
Beforehand
counting
and
"
allowed
sent
have
will
from
with
conditioning,'his
'
and
carte
of
No
'
he
time.
kind
do,
to
period
same
his cruelties.
helplesshorses,
fulness
the
to
to
blistering,and
"
that
inane
projects of 'physicking' {i.e.purging)
in
head
an
benefit
receive
during
then
satisfaction,as
over
will
with
sanely dealt
were
with
owner
indeed, they really ought
as,
;
the
by
25
BLISTERING.
AND
and
violent
and
with
the
horse
groom.
It
of
days
couple
a
inflammation
causes
terriblyweakens
ceased
horse's
'
irritatingof
when
legs ;
vesicants
'
are
the
and
his
or
him.
is
man
the
most
greatest
26
HORSES
then
and
purge,
continued
rest.'
Let
'
says
:
all
surgeon
who
horses.
The
applied
of the
then,
in
whether
the
during
then
only
did
symptoms
the
not
on
in accordance
employed
Eoutine
most
to
seems
respects
as
Mr.
London
of
some
the
finally discovered,
horses
reins
Flower,
and
could
"
this
actually do
was
a
severe
more
blow
at
a
horse.
is in
that,
says
upon
work
'
of
does
sumably
(prethe
that
to
regret
chiefly
routine,^
long innings
After
horse
'
aloes
present
arguments
to
that
mashes
of
on
and
the
part
trial, that
routine
"
in
long
proprietors
without
;
worse
says
him
cause
the
regards
got
emergency)
are
life.'
practice,he
having
energetic representations
of
not
ivith the dictates
be
of
for farmers
bran
dose
a
an
They
sense
he further
and
afterwards
administration.
common
Mayhew
four
given
Agriculturists
have
in active
was
have
to
;
one
productive
and
ago,
or
blisters
concerns
things
purge
he
years
remember
not
usual
of three
sufficient
:
the
his advice.
spite of
'
said
century
a
administration
a
the
in
half
wrote
general
'
them
of
remember
cannot
stables
their
of
legs
hundreds
Youatt
science
veterinary
applications were
their
it is doubtful
the
he
such
to
directs
since
beheld
his
having
the
the
had
he
veterinary
blister
legs, but
bring
Youatt
yet
has
slightestgood.'
should
which
author
infernal
if
of
discharge
to
proposes
in which
than
of
professor
drastic
a
these
of
instead
gentlemen
the
to
instance
work
by
one
injured
modern
A
weakened
by
more
hard
at
ROADS.
first
tortured
is
inventions,
'
horse
A
favourites.
AND
in
their
bearing
and
now
most,
nearly
or
horses
omnibus,
gentlemen
their
horses
first
the
the
on
surface
Square,
Hanover
be
They
are
their
breasts, thus
to
thus
and
mile
they
may
be,
entails
and
extensor
of
these
will, such
to
powers
tear
sheaths
when
with
of the
at
swing
each
in
tion;
direc-
tendons,
to
suffer
should
it in
a
be
power
undue
flexion
and
extension
put
to
lasting
to
if it
even
inconvenience
their
bound
is
her
of
exercising their
from
to
natural
"
But
economical
great
prejudice
something
interfered
are
full, and
and
tendons.
tendons
prevented
are
the
for
and
wear
real
it
flexor
that, by depriving her
it results
horses
themselves,
also ;
the
to
as
the
of
motion
their
their
and
natural
step, short
and
determined
so
in
to
up
shortened,
stride
every
putting
a
muscles
and
and
;
them.
drawn
steps than
more
muscles
has
Nature
travel
turn
working
with
chins
their
having
many
for
say
to
those
hampered
their
with
seen
making
each
still
are
horses,
cart
quently
fre-
are
vestry of St. George's,
the
to
drags
memory),
of
them
with
away
they happened
because
belonging
carts
done
but
way
tram-
in London.
four-in-hand
"
and
cab,
car,
them
also
them
(and only
instance
have
even
;
van,
-without
without
seen
in
all
Many
for
up
BEARING
driven
are
27
REIN.
THE
only
the
moderate
very
light.
Farmers
on
to
have
foot, must
hold
make
plead
of
at
much
certain
of
ascend, the
that
cart
horses,
something
times,
and
driven
for that
they
to
man
man
a
catch
also
parade
and
they
have
hill
fact
that
when
bearing
rein
is loosened
the
by
;
a
therefore
28
thev
admit
head
'
to
draw
if
common
that
sense
The
of his head
stride
his
at
of
the
lay
rein
will
allow
would
and
shows
them
have
only
reins,
ring
to
hang equally
of
hold
cheek
the
We
won't
of
the
name
his
natural
Yet
work.
cart
over
it
a
four-mile
they would,
Their
owners
if
best
the
of
the
this
reins
to
lay
carters
bit,
and
who
those
the
last
let
a
thus
take
horses
are
to
with
journey
allowed, only
handicap
them.
point; but,
horse
is essential
country, ^pegging away
on
They
the
find
only
always ready
than
sense,
common
"
This
bit.
quarrel
stride
horses'
hitch
and
would
above
better
the
below
hold
their
the
length
double
the
To
it.
faculties.
at
just
fullest
his
of
length,
strap,
It is
unsightly.
they
measure
of that
sides
the
govern
upon
rein
a
use
is necessary
use
hearing
ring just
horses
their
manaofe
to
of; although the
hold
caught
horse
a
gracefully,and
and
does
easilyfound.
is
of inventive
when
free
occasionally,the
determined
hames,
the
on
sort
and
a
on
sew
their
at
some
on
short
be
to
and
that
troublesome
be
necks
the
should
without
hill
up
of
they object again
hang unequally
this
be
hold
draw,
to
to.
have
of
rein
a
where
know
not
always
it
as
of that
that
length
exertion
to
if
to
length
the
walk,
a
and
;
for carters
should
horse
cart
appealed
were
of his
use
is easier
line, although nothing
the
the
'
do
times, yet they
certain
at
have
should
horse
a
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
his
to
be
seen,
reduced
the
same
use
on
always
in
in
have
economical
town
and
strides,expending
a
exertion
that
five-mile
one.
30
AND
HORSES
and
when
pernicious system,
them,
from
differed
and
horses,
lies,to
discredit
the
the
approved
his
of
welfare
his
of
prejudices
that
opinion
he
says
:
the
'
ought
structures, the
to
anatomy,
of which
having
been
this
kind
of
for
such
a
them
upon
they
management
of the
the
and
'
One
and
'
can
the
feet
buy
out
wear
a
farriers,
of instructio
course
operate
upon
economic
studied, and,
of
sequently,
con-
have
people
the
it
time,
horse
that
intelligence
sets
four
of
seems
taken
since
long
the
requires
out
of
the
people.
pairs of
ill treated.
are
of
Mr.
feet.' That
John
Bright
discovered, through thirty-fouryears'experience,
loss
a
farmers
have
ignorant
horse
is because
has
such
to
a
When
not
greatest supervision
two
ness,
idle-
payment
of
the
in
thing continually impressed
of
of
the
never
part
hands
idle
compulsory
physiology, and
length
have
strange that
makes
the
to
allowed
understood.'
never
since
who
master
through
go
have
they
and
fitly punished
is
groom,
'Farriers
after
years
subservient
steed
previously to being
uses
three
veterinary surgeon.' And,
the
bill to
shoes,
of invention
only
lengthened period of his animal's
by
appropriately finished
long
the
to
them.'
of
use
lamed
purpose
sort
every
have
masters
on
fault
Lupton, M.R.C.V.S.,
Mr.
the
the
tried, by
in vain
their
have
they
imputed
having
ROADS.
do
of
not
thought
papers,
to
SOOl.
buy
that.
but
them.
that
the
in
books
We
shape
!
'
know
they
are
of
printing, that
One
would
that
they
also
extensive
hardly
not
only
tributors
con-
SEEDY
What
horses
of
the
to
forge and
great importance,
find
been
amongst
that
the
foot
were
the
and
but
is the
way
joint
litter,the
of
it
shoe, slipping down
hill,"c.
will
farrier,he
they
of
colt, or
a
unshod
shod.'
well
are
at
grass,
but
see
known
ever
was
it
does
outer
'
Pathology
by dry
begins ;
dirty
on
they
have
such
this
for
hot
a
the
horses
are
them
the
if
feet
of
running
find anything
can
unshod
no
thing,
a
unshod
the
of
;
cow-
to
been
horses
wall, Mayhew
the
any
also
are
separation of
indirectly recognised
has
if the
with
at
has
whether
to
horn
inner
do
hurt
look
that
corns
and
make
toe
good
not
them
(from which
entirely free). Remarking on
than
more
not
thereon
'many
mare,
and
discover
it
shoe
They certainly cannot
like it.
horse
of the
that
Let
brood
a
from
standing
remark
a
told
that ;
like
naturally
be
did
had
toe
to
it should
are,
seat
makes
owner
the
seedy
are
instance,
ointments, stopping with
the
the
for
able
separated
is
the shoes
crust
or
layer,as
dung, "c., burning
If
be
in which
of hoof
use
would
wall
and, what
when
feet
that, when
is
causes
?
horses
inner
healthy,
This
fibre.
the
with
shod
astonished,
the
layer of
their
accompany
be
rasped, they
outer
body
one
their
see
many
and
pared
owners
them
see
would
They
removed?
to
of horse
percentage
31
TOE.
the
says:
intention
of
their
function, by acknowledging that condition
to
be
state
horn
a
are
disease, wherein
of
separated.
seedy toe,
and
recognised as
as
Such
false
weakened
a
division
quarter;
when
the
such
is
and
a
kinds
two
known
the
want
of
as
foot
of
union
is
32
is discovered.
such
facts
may
add
smiths
most
that
to
most
iron
as,
when
is
to
be
by paring
hoof, when
the
is where
Over
'
the
of
surface
vulgar
horse's
and
amongst
them,
have
evils
system.
his
mind
himself
to
up
smith
is
of
and
it remains
an
attendant
The
to
be
his
see
horses
giving striking proofs
either.
He
can
see
the
the
there
under
was
for
some
popular
very
certain
a
modern
extent,
professional
explain
to
that
should
must
the
the
he
outside
;
for
he
knows
of
allow
that
with
a
is
the
ledge
know-
always
nothing
the
to
make
not
idea
endowed
physiology
and
of
deal
great
impressive
shod,
with
adept operator,
anatomy
ments
improve-
likely only
therefore, who
impressed
years
everything pertaining
on
owner,
of
consist
paring
themselves
exerted
the
principles.^
be
a
so, to
;
that
many
became
it
the
of
stated
'
was
be
found.
most
because
so
of
only
can
it is
was
present time, although all
authorities
the
it;
to
be
to
This
for
quarter
or
to
were
foot.
ignorant,
attached
immense
toe
there
because
mystery
up to the
bottom
cutting, carving, and
about
show
the
such
as
and
is on,
the
considered
authors,
their
by
received
then
were
shoe
It
conceived
were
utterly
it.
improvements
which
We
is
detected,
improved
upon
'
the
forges
country
so-called
They
ago.
the
frequently
here
theories
mistaken
off,at
is
all
done
is
hides
rasping
or
it is most
these
Now,
shoe
nearly
shoeing
not
and
discovered
toe
its existence
beginning,
covers
application of
utterly ignored.'
owners
appearance
the
course
forge,the
the
in
by
in the
first
its
But
is
unknown
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
of
foot; but
IGNORANCE
has
he
the
not
the
internally to
There
are
parts he
for instance, how
so
they
the
on
of these
purposes,
smiths
to
that
has
possibly
them,
their
has
and
foot.'
bottom
of
of
neatness
is
Don't
own
your
shoe
Any
is
support
is
uncalled
will next
of
them,
Sometimes
bring
of that
it to
this advice
of
for
cast
to
the
crust.
he
finds
the
hoof
he
of
that
;
he
if it
but,
proceeds
has
to
D
mind
take
make
mind
ances
appear-
from
account
any
the
be
in
under
seat
fact,that
The
alter
to
comes
and
pare
it
four
horse.
shape
within
of
shoer
even
the
;
here
cited
fittingthe
rasp
off
to
shoe, or
a
near
come
to
goes
order
them.
of
in search
will
man
only
many,
any
Yet
to
on
could
so
;
quote
round
that
much,
that
on
these
foot, especiallyas
see
of authorities
amount
in
down
pared
Never
arguments
and
way,
that
taking his legs
to their
listen
all
as
special
strength of
horse's
a
;
for
a
there,'in
and
bars
allowed
be
to
the
this kind
unless
sufficient
entreaties
crust
or
themselves.
alone,
'
the
wall
matters
overgrow
them
let
just a little bit, here
what
they call a clean
have
pared, except
or
say, the
is to
ordered
so
'
him.
cut
she
after
on
part of the
no
and
will not
resist
that
us
were
cannot
parts
tell
"
;
dark.
touching the sole,frog,or
placed there by Nature
only, without
look
shoe
tell,off-hand,
entirelyimbedded
are
account, be
any
of the
seat
in the
authorities
should,
could
only partiallyimbedded
many
working
are
Modern
hoof
how
and
hoof,
in the
who
bones
many
corresponds
mercilessly destroys.
so
smiths
few
very
what
of
idea
sKghtest
33
SOUTHS.
OF
a
the
to
little
hoof,
34
to
it fit the
make
of
composed
covering
to
he
long,
calk
proceeds
calks
Now,
to
shorten
it
have
we
of
Nature
has
order
foot
are
bone
tilted
up
in
is
called
calls
they
Horse
in
out
it
'
to
fever
the
that
which
;
the
to
for
foot.
horse
a
;
seriouslywith
the
of
the
when
the
is
foot
is
feet.'
]VIr.
the
the
of
one
laminitis,
raising
the
;
wedge-shaped
This
and
horse's
exterior
the
into
toe.
in
mind
to
customary
horses
race
the
'
tread
with
they
monly
com-
Douglas
heels
also
the stride.
shortens
Is
'
parts
seedy toe, sandcrack,
of
happily
interior
harmony
of
be
horse^s
the
interfere
it is forced
concavity
causes
too
more
up
applied
wedge-shaped, and,
behind,
interior
be
brakes
as
to
right
heel,
the
All
shaped
coffin
find
by ignorant,
be
of
the
calkins, by raising the
designs.
act
should
seen,
determined
her
to
cart, instead
the
wheels
by turning
conceived
were
unreflectingpeople,in
brakes,
should
fancy
more
should
abomination,
great
a
are
slight. They
so
ever
his
it is
is
heel.
the
at
to
which
one,
he
If
one.
suited
best
shoe
the
outside
being
insensitive
because
sensitive,
the
than
sensitive
so-called,
or
a
were
of it
part
every
corresponding
inside
an
hoof
if the
as
of
outside,
an
denominated
usually
that
shoe, just
of horn, instead
block
mere
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
?
From
Management,'
calkins
thus
=
stride
much,
calkins
illustration
an
given by
wear,
put
Mayhew
it appears
counts
however
;
and
short
in
that
the
shoes
of
the
'
his
'
on
they
trainers
they
may
of
plates
'
Illustrated
do
have
not
run
found
still be
in
CALKS
researches
their
verite
hated
observed
should
them
and
saddle,
Man
in his
vain
enough
of such
cut
to
think
to
what
so
far
be
into
blood
to
produce
that
he will then
blow
up
man
to
for it.
who
the
same
'
he
the
both
make
In
will
so
a
purposes.
alter
it to
classes
of
To
can
has
men
the
the
tion
regula-
the
to
'
forge:
that
has
he
has
and,
he
be
sets
may
deeply
cut
near
a
fit
the
hoof,
fire and
give
and
the
foot, in
it must
2
;
goes
that, which
shoe
in
he
sole
something
shoe
reflect,that
of
he
of the
the
the
on
pores
hot
it red
D
vantage.
ad-
abandoned,
himself
often
shape
doing
is
possibly get at, without
can
to
the
been
return
obtained
again put
him
for
he
dewdrops
has
both
for
serve
for
satisfied
state, he will apply it
seat
rule
a
that
although
"
by alteringboth
a
as
it,and
has
farrier
and
"
Lord
with
oozing through
seen
down
la
que
dissatisfied
everything he
as
a
foot.
kind.
designed
fitted
ignorant ?
most
the
away
to
supposed improvements
the
drawing
she
and
perversity is
And
when
horse
foot, equally
wonderful
to
n^y
horse
cart
yet
horse's
il
lays it
the
to
the
intended
draught
he
not
differ.'
Nature
but
horse
race
have
this
of
instances
calks, and
of
of the
so, but
shoeing.
1879) both
shoeing,and descriptionof shoes, should
thickness
only of
; the size,weight, and
of
system
be
the
from
'
told
be
to
qui offensein
Pembroke
that
like
of
trainers
of treatment
acme
will not
They
and
forwards,
the
at
the
to
as
and
backwards
arrived
35
SHOES.
HOT
right way
still slip(witnessthe Derby
horses
Eace
AND
in that
order
red
burn
to
evident
all the
hot
to
every
natural
a
36
of
the
state, and
boiling means
which
on
the crust
This
him.
upon
another
the
wall)on
or
cut
position
decom-
entire
tion
founda-
the
is
it
the
only
that he operates
occasion
next
boiling
a
again (as regards
away
is, therefore,
business
bm'ning-in
sand-
and
seedy-toe, false quarter,
of
cause
to
their
built, and
is
has
he
into
crust
actually kills
he
horse
a
part that
dead
simply
therefore,
so,
the
of
bottom
secretions
;
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
crack.
The
mischief
The
one.
exemplifiedin
Hue
and
the
shoes
animals,
Cry,
'
one
'
herrador
his
in
to
custom
has
premises. They
the
without
shoes
aid
of
shoe
a
even
does
not
nothing
use
the
veterinary
pares
else
in the
drawing
surgeon
anything
but
a
he
wall, which
the
that
wood
The
ductile.
of iron
for
"
"
he
he
does
forging
never
of
pair
with
(although,of
does),and
not
it is true
soft,and
shape
knife
the
like
manufacture
shoeing-smith only
or
many
cold, and
forge or
fire ; but
charcoal, is particularlypure,
'herrador'
and
suffered
Spanish iron,being primarily manufactured
Spanish
through
cause.'
hundred
a
;
since, have
same
it is the
hot
red
was
trotting-horse
fore-feet
its
fitted
and
the
barbarous
most
Bevan's
Mr.
both
been
before
from
on
of
lost
the
is
times, by this custom,
at
case
which
both
Spain
bellows
the
having
misfortunes
In
done
the
shoe
the
Heating
it is also
but
quicker way,
shoe
opinion, when
in my
hot.
when
porting
re-
the
fitting of
The
better,
done
cold, than
is
iron
the
be
always
'
:
says
worth
well
is
Douglas
ISIr.
He
here.
can
of
opinion
the
course,
touches
pares
down
or
38
the
of the
V
what
does
farrier
Must
not
why
should
and
in this the
will
go
have
'
give
owners
be
worthies,
he
send
people
their
horses
them
of this
ordinary
on
reallystill going
are
aware
If
horse
a
next
shoe
he
to
If the
farrier
in that
on
a
contract
the
listen
perceive or
the
for
to
real
day
a
'
ing
gomany
or
two
prescience
horses
the
horse
wears
perverseness
to
the
groom
conceive
is
to
sure
of
and
place
one
the
thicken
particularplace ;
has
artist,and
the
or, if
time
(contract-shoeingis
will
that
on
wear
calks, he
one
in
more
horse),he
prevent the
the toe and
down
wear
only
puts
curse
steel
piece of
is
of
brace
although
his shoe
away
shoeing by
is not
additional
to
wears
himself
considers
part.
;
horse
a
then, but only themselves
tender
another, the
in
or
with
journey,
things
many
Therefore,
a
you
with,
home
shod
be
at
of it.
than
he
of
state
are
a
this
;
they
so
of
come
!
bear
a
deal
to
that
of
wonder
to
lot
to
your
and
shoeing
hands
the
in
else
or
laugh
reasons
the
When
small
sending
the
to
reason,
hard
a
are
And
before
him
give
?
objections
food
carry
generally found
is
tender.'
fit to
of
one
up.'
entirely
left
is
They
it.
it
best,
pint together,and
a
might
that
and
the
servant, behind
your
will
servant
drinking
over
only
about
all your
But
that
care
or
? To
so
to
are
you
and
called
remark
only
that
back,
be
they
know
principles be
improved
will
he
either
superposed.
is
bone
navicular
arms
a
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
This,
of
course,
if you
choose
They
cannot
farrier.
is driven
a
particular
certain
horse,
that the horse
in
is almost
calk.
the
weld
an
or
forced,
'
by
the
natural
natural
continue
are
be
to
horses
walking
seen
the
and
veterinary
working
it will
all.
bring
cartilagesof
where
undue
thrown
:
the
and
was
produced,
are
to trot
often
the
horse
the
twist
should
be
it the
strain
foot
'
to
up
The
of
their
They always
part,
it.
capable
break
are
always ready
it is
only
shocking
side
one
'
cut
study
the
order
to
'
tread
'
he
the
and
opposing
ingenuity
to
to
for them
abuse
of
like
to
come
is
for
to
'
;
the
it,when
of which
the
it
from
make
his
things
instinct,
it
his
No
as
versity
per-
exertions
some
they
have
to
people
fully
nature, is wonderful.
oppose
down, but,
is often
which
when
else
brush
himself
free
seeking
is
'
or
alleviation
only
displaying,
minds
deferred
on
go
cutting.'
himself),and then humour
thwarting it, or looking upon
from
by
friction
shoe
the
to
'
for
free
to
on
or
of
cause
known
The
is to
his
upon
(or ossification of
splints,or something
that
on
cab
divided
likely
of
a
sinews
have
not
instead
It is
(in London,
in
worse
and
horses
many
search
(itis
made
which
the
of
once
are
so
toes
seen
ever
of this defect.
get
that
unnatural
cause
is in
'
;
a
desire, until
enable
especiallyis
horse
in
ultimately contraction,
their
foot),or
shaping
foot
side-bone
about
horse
the
but
If
and
tread
to
surgeons
at
unshod
back
'
innate
reason
on
be
day
any
may
them),
is the
This
sinews.
his
oppose
his
natural
a
sprain, and
about
they bring
of
to
of
muscles
down
put
search
in
39
the
of
action
legs, to
manner
they
and
play
BRUSHING.'
'
AND
the
of
tendons
so
'
CUTTING
until
pluck,
Britons, they
true
the
the
charge again ;
next
meeting.
all the
same.
40
HORSES
by
itself,
edges
in
more
the
of
heel
whilst
;
wear
The
time
when
they
have
the
writer
to
put
on
to
the
has),
a
of
pair
shape
positively
of
;
his
for
civilised
'
go
and
of
length
chauasures.
'
either.
the
time
human
reinforce
American
fashions
heel
lame
the
or
the
to
as
own
not
inside
from
He
any
the
The
moccasin,
of
wear
contrary,
proceeds
this.
the
they
is
quickest.
moccasins
worn
the
mending
than
heel
the
it,
who
the
with
outside
form
one,
boots
have
out
comfortable
heel
maker
boot-
men
the
different
equine
better
of
get
feel
all
exactly
require
wear
knows
exterior
can
the
that
parts
Indian
to
a
his
that
wear
with
do
in
they
like
shoemaker,
the
will
begin
will
time
same
away
when
As
"
his
yet
of
being
some
The
;
heels
another.
pair
new
owner.
side
the
a
does
accommodated
the
of
every
making
others
them
else
on
tread,
the
at
'
to
has
pair
tread
than
natural
the
boots
consequence
part
one
same
toe
in
the
;
'
roimd
is
persist
will
square
the
old
that
beings
of
pair
the
to
foot
man's
a
old
an
Because
wear,
human
amongst
wear
?
why
and
of
to
prefer
not
there
is
Who
ROADS.
AND
when
near
as
and
;
of
the
time
they
he
those
(as
have
41
CHAPTER
ON
YOrATT
WEIGHT
THE
'
HORSE
SHOES
OF
'
JTLIEN
ST.
YI.
^
"
AMERICAN
"
OUNCE
AN
AT
TROTTING
HEEL
THE
TELLS
'
A
THAN
MORE
LAFOSSE
OF
TIP
CRUST
wearing
things
heel,
part which
full
their
that
us
largely on
may
ladies
can
this
the
the
horse
Medical
to
a
great
foregoing
grooms
to the
off
of
their
by
also
same
boots
;
of
and,
to
is to
the
Medical
in
say,
take
to
nature
tell
men
fashion, hysteria is
that
other
many
nesses
ill-
Fortunately,
cause.
when
they
of
the
doors
in-
come
chance), to
construction.
different
habit
under
not
that
"
themselves
avail
From
this
to
judge
is debarred.
extent
as
remarks
and
are
physiologists,
as
men,
to
the
upon
they, at least, have
that
the
increase, and
take
it
step.
every
became
be traced
others
on
at
of
intended
not
weight
(and they
put
ahead
but
the
boots
placed,
are
THE
OP
into
their
to
they
was
since
ladies
our
heels
worse,
STRUCTURE
OR
CONTRACTION.
AND
led
late
SHOE
LUNETTE
"
THE
ON
EXPANSION
high
very
ball of the
a
of
BACK
THE
DOUGLAS
ON
has
Fashion
ON
"
MILES
"
make
POUND
no
farriers
value
the
or
able
non-value
horse's foot and
excuse
should
for
of
the
its shoe
;
tacitly admitting
have
any
advantage
42
them.
over
Perhaps
while
worth
and
them,
them
of
Some
'
'
to
groovey
in
comparative
their
shoes
or
the
of
end
here
is
hard
a
made
are
by contract,
12|
of
Earns
the
and
;
on
the
shoes
the
;
is
it
much
less than
the
of
an
with
iron
day's work^^
tells
permanently
no
modern
by
his
'
there
the
upon
horse's
spite,also,of the
ounce
at
the
heels
tells
more
than
are
old
a
six
very
heavy
have
been
was
too
Besides
the
has
shoes
generallyin
heavy
only
lately
the
before
evil that
it
There
is,
legs.
that
time
until
he
the
remains
ting
trot-
best
telling sadly
authority
before
in 2 min.
may
friends?
yet
in
wore
that
explicit thereon;
use,
was
as
but
ounce
an
feet,and
fore
Earns
two,
two
or
ounce
of
perhaps,
the
of
the
trotters,
possible that
end
a
on
by
not
shoes
his
that
;
the year,
American
mile
Earns,
ones.
American
not
assisted
weight
hind
horse
better
each
'
a
told
are
ounces
with
custom
second
a
we
fifteen
weighed
ounces
half
being
sec,
heavy
sadly tell
horse, St. Julien, lately trotted
of
are
by
that
The
work.'
use.
Youatt,
will
of
tunity
oppor-
too
or
still.
shoe
of the
day's
good
a
matter
authority, says
weight
become
all masters
the
on
heavier
made
modern
a
in the
two
shod
are
are
means
any
are
horseshoes
most
horses
when
and
men
authorities
that
amine
ex-
minds.
have
profitablyinto
it
bring
to
modern
opinion
and
and
their
they
it
inexcusable, especially
is
Medical
anatomy;
for them
All
that
extent
an
feet
in
over
that
admit
science.
of
TYien
things
turn
think
may
horses'
their
up
will
them
of
some
pick
to
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
been
not
still most
proverb,
pound
on
'
An
the
The
heavy
ones.
heavy
ones,
do
mistakes
the
were
makes
in
although
the
well
wrote,
the
in
is
age
observe
'
is very
in
Smither,
slip
asphalt
present
as
a
as
this
considerable
hoof.
the
Horse
the
writer
there
observers
This
of
to
streets
John
Mr.
do
horses
At
horses.
may
not
and
pavements
greasy
other
the
in
These
with
as
people come
(as
meet
belonging
upon
the
of
found
Smithfield.
number
means
exception (as
be
to
score.
this
on
'
general tendency of
possible.'' This
as
The
notable
London
keep
to
all
Book
'
they
rule
nails
apparent when
horses
much
nails, and
extra
hoof; although, only
little
little
the
is the
season,
on
of
East
about
'
as
does) ; although one
is to
rule) is
every
London
the
of
horse
every
of
the
in
shoe
to
the
mulcts
universally over-shod,
are
author
in
; and
iron
contemporary,
a
tendency
of
of
put
help
to
England
the
year,
this
would
it
actually
way,
mutilation
extra
in
also
shoe
over-mutilated
as
last
will
weight
much
so
Horses
to
the
exorbitant
only
If
him.
makes,
he
his
of
rest
no
man
clips on
make
the
upon
overreaching
an
This
!
himself
he
and
;
fittingjudgment
that
that
on
warning by experience, and
he incontinently,
observation, when
takes
useful
no
again
very
recoil
mistake
only
he
a
"
equally
not
that
prove
time
unfortunate
It is
him.
upon
'
this
himself
than
longer
wear
usual, wrong
as
careful
by
farrier, by putting
contract
thus,
is
lie found
will
43
NAILS.
EXTRA
that
us
light shoes
that
experiment
cheats
tells
Douglas
]\ir.
back.'
'CLIPS,'AND
SHOES,
HEA\"\^
the
selves
satisfythem-
gentleman
horses, and
is
owner
his
cars
44
and
be
to
are
vans
ROADS.
AND
HOESES
with
met
continually
the
in
City.
M.
that
Fosse
La
less
iron
one-half
that
was
heels
a
of
tip,
in
to
he
say
about
six
eight
up
thickness.
So
he
thickness, in
it
into
the
one
inches
six
fastened
of
of
one
of
horn,
five,
of
about
inch
an
in
amounting,
half
a
thus
inches
squeezing
four
even
or
clenches
the
it from
and
to
on
length
from
run
inserting wedges
from
very
the
entire
Horse-nails
was
space
hilling
its
in
spoilta
he
three-sixteenths
to
in
inches
all that
was
pared (and this,
be
to
off
cut
recommended
weaker),while
nails.
aggregate,
he
"
idea
maintained
foot
the
of
horses
them
one-eighth
and
half
ways
made
iron, with
in the
two
weak-footed
course,
is
the
boldly
But, unfortunately, he
idea
of
he
and
;
that
"
front
necessary.
bright
of
shoe
the
tip on
a
required
was
the
of
with
deeply impressed
was
inches,
and
downwards
outwards.
Mr.
Douglas
with
found
on
ground.
From
of
of
the
the
of
their
natural
state.
hardened,
a
of
soldered
small
glue-like
mitrailleuse
amined
closely ex-
of
be
will
structure
fibres
bristle-hke
the
tion
particularlongitudinalconstruc-
gun,
together,can
that
follows
weight
amount
number
its
number
is
crust
bearing diagonally towards
fibres,it
great
a
a
end, but
standing
the
If
microscope,
a
consist
to
'
:
says
long
so
The
crust
viewed
so
its
a
bear
will
a
kept in
they are
resembles
together by
Whoever
substance.
form
as
bound
tubes,
with
they
seen
barrels
numerous
very
has
good
idea
a
all
of the
46
they
harnessed.
are
sounder
were
feet
unsound
shod
are
our
death,
to
four
all
on
horses
than
legs
lame
more
these
that
are
and
little
a
were
and
horses, which
of them
most
they
discover
their
in
cab
London
If
would
they
observant
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
and
(or
feet
legs).
By
we
is the
nails
seven
still
are
of which
doing,
one-twelfth
dry
supply
the
Miles,
a
all the
them
have
he
would
he
got them,
others);
but
one
nail
the
two
the
hoof.
he
he
was
to
This
as
contraction
always
inside
of
nails
the
being
;
the
and
made
extent
in
with
the
and
has
himself,
his
work,
which
he
foot, and
near
the
of
clever
'
Miles
upon
might
put only
the
outside
natural
work,
which
draws
and
very
otherwise
from
he
means
on
found
original
source
contraction,
gentleman
to
of
he
and
when
does
used
years
the
for
the
Mr.
on
in any
search
in
and
remaining
experiments
and
as
the
on
are
out
cowdung
or
reflected
not
acknowledged
expansion
allow
them
referred
them
seen
never
(they
stated
thought
writer, who
had
He
'
horses,
own
becomes
edges,
many
can
full
its
secretions?
natural
his
on
then,
of
ointments
squire, for
better.
above
reasons
the
Devonshire
only
hoof
'
of
place
nails
three
Can
?
its
press
com-
of about
extent
How,
round
and
up
hoof, deprived
nourishment
and
brittle
the
to
one-fourth.
the
if
of
supply
nails
of
instead
wonder
we
the
wedge
hoof,
mischief
extent, the
certain
a
about
each
in
employ
guilty. We
was
with
horn
the
to
which
shoeing,in
we
average
Fosse
La
of
mode
ordinary
our
toe,
part
of
practical
expansion
on
the
MILES
'EXPANSION
ON
Foot,'
Horse's
The
they
them
of
subject
which
had
always
work,
and
had
lifted
precision
foot
same
heels
of
space
at
and
from
horses
none
heel
was
to
which
than
taken
standing
toe,
that
place
toe.
He
;
but
still, and
where
the
;
the
in
shown
this
upon
was
showing
that
a
only
three
he
still
proving,
lateral^
only
length
the
of
had
greater
whilst
legs.
each
on
expansion
no
was
inch
an
quarters
tracings
states
before
the
inches
two
expansion
took
had
this
the
place
time,
same
that
of
front,
result
of
part
the
opposite
diminished,
in
;
The
from
and
;
gradually
inches
centre
had
the
this
four
whatever
one-eighth
quarters
the
traced.
again
was
paper.
ground
and
it,
was
greatest
with
the
on
upon
expanded
toe
the
of
side
it
and
the
towards
a
had
it
the
at
placed
whilst
up
that
was
then
foot
covered
laid
the
for
the
to
put
purpose
with
board
then
was
was
held
foot
of
first
unshod
traced
old,
years
was
on
The
contour
board
he
removed
piece
a
nine
since
experiment.
its
on
similar
A
shoe
and
and
up,
shoes
admirably.
most
horse
a
was
worn
the
investigation
illustrated
are
47
CONTKACTION.'
AND
the
foot
other
sion
expan-
horse
48
CHAPTEK
ENTIRELY
EXPANSION'
PERCIYAL
HURTS
horse
he
is,
at
in
at
have
thus
has
long
they
the
for
many
failures
after
been
been
prevention
of
having
unearthed,
the
public
full
shoe,
expansion
;
even
and
but
ARE
WANTED.
has
been
the
walk
it
that
on
for
slipping,have
Most
buried
of
like
it.
we
one,
expansion
still
progress
In
fact
this,
the motives
been
their
and
contraction
This
them
pirated,
no
unshod
an
shod
a
although
"
in
authorities, and
most
allow
to
in
discover.
by
that
leg. What,
one
to
his
all
leg only, and
one
to
in its most
ON
WRITINGS
IDEAS
amount
directions;
been
THERE
SAYS
EXISTING
tendency
inventions.
in both
ROAD,
'
gait beyond
shock
admitted
how
THE
photography,
unable
studied
have
and
far been
ALL
on
its
gallop, or
NOT
'
time
horse
ING,
SHOE-
PROFESSOR
extension, bearing
may
a
SHOE,
ORIGINAL
every
a
OF
AND
IMPECtTNIOSITS
every
therefore, expansion
at
THE
'
of
means
with
down
comes
IS
'
'
MAYHEW
"
ABOUT
certain
a
TIPS
IT
AND
MODE
PRESENT
'
HORSE
that
demonstrated
weight
"
foot,
by
Eecently,
the
TIPS
'
SAMENESS
horse's
THE
'
THE
MUCH
TOO
BY
'
BY
*
ON
THAT
IS
PEEVENTED
FAVOURED
BITT
VII.
have
some
proved
of
authors
them,
have
"
again presented
to
is
made.
The
perfect form,
cannot
allow
their
natural
scope
;
but.
the
on
as
front
what
that
proved
been
is to
half
front
on
and
with
a
of
round
its
of
in which
a
short
will
hands
J
inches
14
tip,and
real
tip is
out
would
gives
to
A
not.
are
shod
when
development
in
Mayhew
shown, and
a
heels
generally be
Six inches
edge.
the
horses
they
the
farriers
at
turning
it ;
than
for many
tips,which
appreciabl
is in-
with
more
"
inch
for
them,
15
iron
foot
an
be
may
cover
has
toe) it
interfere
not
only
in
piece of
measure
the
be
engraving
an
it is secured
by only
nails.
four
also
Mayhew
horse
young
the
showed
need
feet
in the
'
'
'
thereon
is,that
it is the
horse
; for
can
should
not
if
go
the
'
:
will
The
so
weak
sound
strong
when
sound
E
writer, and
under
ago,
cites
sound
to
so
in
all
one
a
the
tips that
'
and
he
speak, of
this
hurts
foot
but
do
no^m
to
;
that
road,
tender
the
Mayhew
protection
the
and
the
He
the
moral,
shoe, not
afford.
could
go
further
long ridden
healthy horse's
gentleman who wrote
years
horses
years,
greater protection
to
of
A
ten
any
remarks
animal
desired.'
some
Percival, the
had
no
tips
Impecuniosus,'
endure
cannot
with
examples
some
of
effect that
the
of
'
Field
W.
he
that
than
feet
be
late
Hippo-pathology," many
town
better
not
plume
"
about
hoofs
or
open
:
author
fore
its
to
more
of
the
informed
ago
The
'
says
author
respected
de
are
horse
measured
a
that
do
of the
call these
half-bred
with
rim
six nails
and
grass,
the
of
shoes
put
that
tips
say,
there
much
not
the
(or
hoof
little
will
tips
that
of the
part
49
TIPS.
ON
PERCIVAL
PROFESSOR
the
as
is
the
scribed
de-
unshod,
why
?
The
same
50
HORSES
obvious
conclusion
foot to
stand,
therefore, a
time
not
'
A
that
his
seen
manner,
no
opposed
whatever
to
their
to
is
the
raised, the
situations
motion,
purposes
to
the
off,when
rest.
for the
the
the
clenches
the
This
nails
the
a
when
or
the
quarters yield
back
their
to
unsuited
for
compels
them.
the
shoes
into
important
the
or
the
No
come
parts hardly
to the
ever
circulation,
arterial
expansion permits
in
the
blood
free
full return
current.'
venous
at
the
by
sides, therefore, being
still allows
contraction
Although Mayhew
anatomy
is
driven
is
action
When
'
:
they accordingly
removed
by the hoof
loosened,
are
subjects.'
and
smith
are
matters,
other
the
in
cally
diametri-
stable
animal,
entirely
are
which
ingress,while
of
the
in this
world
Mayhew
ground,
burden
;
the
and
quarters again fly
constant
wonder
the
the
"
compressed
are
pressure,
When
original
of
weight
downward
expand.
at
foot
resting upon
the
being
the
tips
shod
well
upon
from
extract
with
example,
be
may
little
but, although
;
in
is,
tips,
some
horses
very
innovation
any
of
superimposed
hoof
went
his
opinion
contents
all his
He
of
use
known
well
Conservatives,
is another
Here
the
stud
staunch
general being
shoe.''
the
for
sound
strong
a
our
carriage horses
followed
one
but
advocate
shires,shod
and
was
work,
our
hunters, hacks,
it
require
we
sportsman,
in the
ago
is that
strong
that
adding
ROADS.
AND
the
fonnerly
was
demonstrator
Royal Veterinary College,and
high respect
observations, the
and
admiration
writer
is
for
obliged
nearly
to
refrain
of
claims
all
his
from
LEGS
WITH
HARMONISE
continuing
the
therein
differs
he
he
declines
those
he
THE
REST
diametrically from
follow
most
but
respects ;
a
wide
very
in many
only
and
could
this
respect
when
in
display ignorance
has
everything touching their
and
is now
only offeringthe
the
declined
the
of
received
been
at
taught,
had
never
were
made,*
his
in
of
rest
*
in
observer
his
so-gained
Almost
from
horses,
he
separate part from
a
refused
believe
to
to
the
various
doubt, that
to
nothing
and
legs and
and
horses
legs especially,
with
case,
had
out
wear
horse
that
would
one
be
to
by Nature
niggardly giftmade
of his religiouseducation,
the outset
his mother's
knee, he has always
reason
will be
legs as
the
that the horse's
his
has
close
worth.
necessary
were
and
complete,
than
geon.
sur-
and
from
and
man;
veterinary
of
connection
the
them
incomplete
Not
very
and
in
copyists.'
who
result
horse, and
if such
body, as,
his
of
of the
sets
a
a
feet
be
it may
consider
to
body
four
an
for what
beginning
be
been
of
experience
servile
long experience amongst
countries,and
of
even
himself
practical man
a
path
and
Mayhew
'
is
follows
Mayhew,
the
servilelyin
hardly object to his action
he says :
Veterinary surgeons
in being
than
nothing more
that the writer
pretends to
He
what
in
present citation,as
to
Ol
STRUCTURE.
OF
body
to
every
be
*
made
was
made
never
'
says
equal
truly :
e2
he
to
'
their
The
has
ferred
in-
stronger
these, when
fearfullyand
he
thing
every-
Hence
in vain.
stood,
under-
wonderfully
respect harmonising
his structure, and
Impecuniosus
Nature
that
feet, and
found
wanderings
with
the
task.
prevalent idea
52
HORSES
the
of
they
know
than
the
their
of
Creator
foot into
right
what
better
a
one
form
;
caused
diseases
It
is
really
written
about
my-leader
than
in
do
idea
that
old
be
curious
horse's
the
on
Very,
found,
is
marred
not
which
to
writer
'
he
things, as
some
all the
n'avais
pas
la
of
rien
he
peine
d'ecrire
de
'
;
'
face of the
Every
followingwords
innovation
applies specially
'
is not
to
stable
here
which
original
an
original
differ
As
is with
that
fined
con-
well,
further
to
and
on
him
from
differ
in
with
'
prendrais
ne
the
he
intention
has
taken
underin
responsibletask,even
from
reform,
'
Impecuniosus
and
practice ;
;
said, Si
Baucher
je
the
to
have
see
I
an
writes
shall
we
it
and
evident
authors
original remarks
offering some
follow-
is
nouveau,
and
been
adherence
some
!
of
seldom
quotes.
the present arduous
the
as
fessedly
con-
persons
with
seldom
obliged to
dire
a
sort
is,indeed, obliged
authorities
je
the
Impecuniosus
also
is
that
preceding
good remarks,
many
the
by
the
placently
com-
has
all
more
more
attends
but
sacred
subject
very
still
and
"
the
think
perhaps, because
own
is
other
any
themselves.'
but
foot
are
natural
diseases
"
observe
to
the
themselves
many
their
hurt
be
they
cause
every
of
for
usually
resign
principle, which
grooves
makes
it to
should
they
lameness
their treatment
not
acquainted.
to
which
own,
presence
by
writing
idea
altered
indeed
the
to
these
have
ascribe
and
one,
does,
and, though
efforts,they
right
am
their
of
foot
animal
they
that
to be
seems
horse's
the
the
until
satisfied
never
blacksmith
the
and
groom
ROADS.
AND
this
but
'
:
remark
any
real
54
CHAPTER
'
THE
'
ON
CHARLIER
THE
PADS
IN
'
AND
SOLE
"
PUMICE
"
nature'
OF
IMPECUNI08FS
SYSTEM
AND
CUSHIONS
'
SHOE"'
CHARLIER
VIII.
PRESSURE
FOOT
ST.
"
SHOEING
INDIA
"
BELL
RUBBER
TION
'IMITA-
ON
'
MAYHEW,
'
KANGAROO
NATURE
IS
A
'
STRICT
ECONOMIST
LIFE
OF
DOUGLAS
"
OUR
'
HORSES
"
ONE
HORSE
'
PAIRS
OF
MORE
FEET
THAN
THE
DISEASE
IS
INCHES
in
OF
might,
be
any
MESSRS.
of
and
unprejudiced
shoe
and
it
a
trial
in
style, and
the
system
it may
be
that
something
prevalent
do
well,
both.
Nature
not
TIPS
*
FOUB
"
that
appear
for those
Charlier
shoes,
would,
all
at
on
barbarous
and
a
of
Impecuniosus,'
or
what
mode
enlightened
most
of
approved
had
SHOES
'
shape
'
improvement
and
assumption
the
in
;
"
TOE.'
THE
Charlier
NAVICULAR
CHARLIER
CHARLIER
ROUND
the
'
SHORT
SYSTEM
^
of
as
'
SAYS
WITH
kind
describe
DOES
CHARLIER
THE
OF
M.
FOUR
PREVENTS
STANLEY
"
find
upon
OUT
CHARLIER
to
shoeing, gave
to
WHO
desire
of
them,
TIP
inventions,
looked
so
HE
SMITHER
CURLED
he
and
WEAR
THE
"
WITH
modem
his ardent
COULD
AVERAGE
'
'
CHARLIER
IRON
that
been
has
CURES
EXPERIENCE
of the
One
WHO
OF
AMERICAN
"
'
ASTLEY,
IMPOSSIBLE
EXPERIENCE
SHORT
'
HE
AND
SHOE,
PHILIP
"
THE
ON
The
it.
generally known
;
unacquainted
with
with
the
started
intended
the
horse
to
every
way
outer
rim
made
of very
that, in fact, the
that
such
with
the
foot
; and
iron
has
as
he
he
than
shod
was
spring
in
the bars, beyond
foot into
shoe,
about
be
can
applied
circle)
; and,
shoe
then
Had
he
have
had
of
twisted
great
remarks
upon
footsore
in
way
demands
work
'
says
the
the
of his
result
half
'
that
Charlier
dimensions
be
made
of
and
a
a
the
upon
mess
tips, or
of
the
exertion.
he
would
correspondent
foot
as
a
about
toe
is all
feet, whatever
lohatever
it when
becoming
his
this
justly
very
horse
It is the
fore
mere
plete
com-
foreseen, the
of
suffers, and
in
a
beginning.
heel
travellingbarefoot.
to be
is not
Kangaroo,'
or
the
ference
(ifcircum-
another
'
theory,
narrow,
very
tips only,
impossibilityof
protection
may
as
the
of
ceases
violent
the
that
frog, sole,
round
a
have
to
to
from
success
Field,' writing
*
crust
got
on
himself
Impecuniosus
the
ought
interfere
rightround
which
broke
or
restricted
a
that
to
he
as
the
he
m-ged
his
in circumference
foot
a
shoe
;
for malleable
spite of
in
then
He
not
wrong,
where
them.
of
independent
*
went
his
after
contraction
and
carried
edge
He
would
the
to
higher
no
iron
Then,
width
the
on
barefooted.
of
once
it.
expressed it,he
weak
stood
when
at
the
imbedded,
or
sole, even
expansion
in this he
no
the
piece
natural
in,
horse
narrow
a
than
iron, less
let
stood
He, therefore,
crust.
or
in
was
tear, except the
and
wear
wall
touching
crust, without
so
all
he
of his foot
bottom
narrow
wall, which
the
of
is,the
that
"
shoe
a
the
fitted to stand
55
SHOE.
CHARLIER
that
barefoot,and
walk
'
'
THE
that
the
soil.'' Hence
he
passed
the
of
the
protection
56
HORSES
half
front
his
either
made
to
twisted
spite of
'
refuse, or
men
liberal
frog and
the
fact
real
weight,
"Uneasiness
is
is
dung,
to
after
and
both
hind
leads
him
feet
to
is in
feet ;
happens that,
suffering from
then
back,
by waiting
these
to
not
squeeze
The
?
search
it out
something
Again,
more
who
telligen
in-
visitinghis
of
horse
a
wards,
for-
preliminary step
dropping,
of
top
of
and
that, when
a
What
it ?
will
groom
he
backs
instinct
tell you
that
something soft and cooling
but, unfortunately for his theory, it
of
far from
so
is solid
diarrhoea
of this
it
and
a
horse
ahead
and
for
;
draw
one
may
convince
then,
does
simply
to
pressure.
him;
by getting
warm
not
Why,
to
cooling, the
soft and
will
any
Why,
see.
being
deprived of, sole
afford
habit
finished
the
?
manoeuvres
otherwise
will
and
takes
to
this
the
in
of the
cause
a
observant
remark
he
question
in
matter
is
to
on
and
What
whereas
;
its share
it takes
the
towards
bearing weight
horse.
having
do
of
unless
who
failed
his
he has failed
views
unhealthy,
the
stable, has
their
in
capable
that,
is
to
going
be
may
man,
for
have
would
shoeing which
in
becomes
it
horse
he
and
length,
Kangaroo,' a great majority of horsey
ever
decline, to believe that the sole,how-
they
bars,
the
short
a
that,
at
about.
bring
In
fractured,
or
stopped
such
not, in
advancement
an
had
he
If
crust.
would
iron
narrow
have
the
of
ROADS.
AND
his
and
he
feet,and
he
himself
go
get,
Soft
through
what
he
is
cowdung
knowingly
will
his
weight, on
solid.
has
not
seen
when
a
horse
is
at
to
hard
nor
he
that
the
with
search
he
which
but
sole
of
hear
again
had
have
'
things he
'
from
the
to
he
upon
Among
'
pads
;
and
prevent
far, are
so
'
'
the
new
good
they
that
'
off,by their elasticity.
come
a
fair trial of them
Some
who
years
was
to
on
the
also
ago
; and
I had
a
remarkably
pumice feet, and
road.
pads, which
I shod
I may
him
he
elastic
tried
but
to
seems
had
the
of
state
hope), he experimented
us
as
by
they
cause
remarkably
could
with
He
concussion,
shoe, and,
the
the
shoe
shortlydescribe
to
historythereof.
hunter,
brilliant
had
tion
inclina-
an
hardly get along
these
and
personally made
this is the
unsound.
'
cushions
'
diminish
I have
self.
him-
expresses
up
being picked
;
will
we
originalideas, free
for him, as far as
one
let
still,
is
that
says
is
brooms,'
'
stones
people
open-minded, investigating
others, he
he
him,
pressure
about
for
here
and
(and
all
Can
he
sole
that
clamours
As
was
is
Why,
to
point,
that
not
"
bringing
He
knows.
that
and
with
grooviness ;
he
?
of.
this
upon
slightestidea
relates.
writer
man
evidence
do
when
relief
a
that
"
print ?
Impecuniosus
the
anything
in
besides
further
As
is
make
to
reason
generally deprived
is
nothing
read
which
pressure,
?
rest
place
desire
go
for what
And
feeding.
will
he
there
and
"
at
order
and
taste
repair
some
upon
in
shade,
his
to
stand
to
stale
even
the
in
consistent
'stiff'
say,
satisfied
in
find
can
ground
is to
^vill
will
generally stiff,
is
which
soft,on
he
dry weather
In
spot, which
very
he
grazing
is not
favourite
some
neither
'
he
when
that
grass,
57
PADS.
AND
CUSHIONS
INDIA-RUBBER
rubber
as
at all
cushions, or
being
a
piece of
58
HORSES
the
india-rubber
horse
went
were
on
the
the
because
shoes
the
result
hoof
hoof
the
did
Why
shod
fast with
sole
'
them
with
the
that
cushions.'
?
cause
be-
Why,
there
whilst
cowdung
;
they
worn.
were
The
of
layers (the
about
show
foot.
of
imitation
its
will
directs
reason
The
closest
been
weather,
or
no
for
groove
of
to
of
should
affair
the
that
tip
most
:
'
it
No
the
fact
bottom
for
entirely untouched
of
the
that
the
insertion
by
the
the
one
shoeing,
of
Nature.'
yet
ever
gives great
slippery roads,
asphalte pavements ; and, in
roughing is necessary.' This
by
to
of
has
"
sole,
be
'
says
imitation
Charlier
brings
treatment
the
Nature
travelling over
the
made
is the
at
often
proper
Bell
come
be-
ment,
treat-
unpared
Nature
St.
in
outer
the
on
close
a
imitation
for
granite,
luhole
us
arrived
security
that,
deny
to
venture
separate,
of
shoeing.
of
and
barbarous
and
is the
Imitation
law
to
Pressure
Nature,
cure.
universal
tendency
a
inner
insensitive)have
through rough
pumice
effect
its
the
and
sensitive
the
conjointly with
pressure,
crust, when
the
diseased
and
sole
of
want
weakening
in
'
horse
say
these
be
To
continually ;
pressure
possible stopping
no
was
with
off,
off.
I should
same.
if he
as
another
on
the
them
leave
to
them
I tried
grow
caused
they
road
always coming
fast when
very
the
on
had
I
were
just the
was
groivs
But
merits,
foot surface, and
fact,went
in
soft.
of their
sure
the
shape of
better"
ROADS.
AND
this
frosty
is
counted
ac-
system
the
foot, excepting
the
by
of
knife;
the
and
shoe,
is left
the
dense,
'NATURE
'
'
roughing
and
world,
which
no
inventive
neither
principles can
experience
an
and
perseverance
designs ?
unable
to
of
prehend
com-
his
profit by
paths
the
abandon
nor
the
such
ignore
and
a
compete
Nature's
is uneducated
who
he
Because
is
into
can
farriers
controvert
to
him
means
all their
59
possesses
sends
artificial
direct
powers
colt
Nature
then, should
fact, and
obvious
'
which
Why,
with.
unshod
the
with
ECONOmST.'
STRICT
A
which
horn
tough
IS
own
prejudice and
custom.'
Mayhew
says
the
amongst
Nature
is
firmest
strict
a
without
anything
does
never
is
that
physiologicaltruths
and
It
*
:
mist,
econo'
intention
.
this without
ought to know
(every one of education
called
it by Mayhew,
to
or
having their attention
in these
pages) ; that every enlargement or every
to
insignificantit may
depression however
appear
'
"
human
eyes
appointed
the
anyone
upsetting
Man
has
product
Nature's
fearful
and
for ages
laboured
to
no
wrong,
has
many
When
example
is
no
not
so
of the
inflicted
on
his
to
than
otherwise
wonderful
designs?
disarrange parts
he
employed,
who
savage
be
can
in
ignorant
hoof
has
No
only
generous
the
injury,
conceived, which
the most
thus
destroys
incapable of understanding.
cruelty
some
use
the
can
shape, be doing
artistical
the
he
then,
How,
allotted
its
else, by carving the
admirably adjusted.
followed
has
and
for
provision
'permanent
a
system.'
fancied
own
is
purpose,
animal
farrier,or
'
"
barity
bar-
of man's
willingslaves.'
Another
writer
observes
that
'
appealing
to
the
60
HORSES
to
be
of
waste
a
their
to
the
horse
every
the
if he
ought
look
to
feet
that
could
all
nearly
and
proverb,
under
true
does
of the
diseases
by
the
stable
be
of
use
'
and
observant
it to
a
the
'
and
:
of
might
one.
to
men
the
through
'
feet,'
useless,
horse
One
is
old
an
and
horsemen;
that
Certainly he
that
vents
pre-
cures.'
rarely cured
very
it
is
an
that
to
legs.
he
Now
all ;
at
but,
system
of
shoeing they might nearly
all
and
Charlier
because
beginning
to
The
it
old,
on
he
to
amongst
than
and
prevented.
for
pairs
brake-power
treatment
where
humane
the
one,
are
Therefore,
early rendered
to
more
feet
natural
years
inducement
thus
Philip Astley justly wrote
disease
the
twelve
horses
feet,
four
a
costs
yearly; and,
although
only
feet
out
wear
cruelties
sums
three
are
the
through
these
sufficient
horses'
their
appeal
to
acknowledged
an
sooner.
were
be
to
is
proved
thirty-five to forty years,
die
buys
been
plan
is
of
even
one
one
This
them
army,
every
with
and
it
from
is
of
the
in
average,
do
better
Douglas,
horse
has
age
considerable
Mr.
to
three-fourths
and,
the
;
exercise
owner
according
of
time
present
pockets.' Now,
that
fact
life
of the
sentiments
better
ROADS.
AND
did
contraction
reflective
shoe
three-quarter shoe
; and
of
who
this
was
a
pansion
ex-
by
upon
Melton,
the
in
natural
improved
at
man
defective
"
admit
not
was
"
sensible
a
an
reduced
great
stride
done
with
good.
Impecuniosus,' as
everything that
tried
gave
he
any
it, and
to
appears
promise
found
have
of
that
being
it
an
provement
im-
really was
62
HORSES
stated
has
la
a
it
on
'
Impecuniosus
conferred
although
there
on
is
one,
his
with
their
they
want
:
then
going
desire
leads
our
us
help
to
on
hope
experience.
began
the
to
having
Charher
our
"
er
in the
'
that
humane
you
Some
six
a
Your
or
seven
shod
a
No.
Spectator
give
method
for
obliged
us
tion.
innova-
1, Upper
of
August 3,
controversy
well
known
of
animals
space
years
the
akin
would
utmost:
every
treatment
will
horses
principle,or
be
'
have
to
their
noticed
you
comers
they
of
forge
a
choose
resist
horseshoes.
the
has
would
Son,
Lane,
all
to
they
and
ago
about
on
shoe
warm
Park
although
the
Smith
weeks
'Some
1878
smiths
one
London,
finds
it,and
The
any
in
even
country
pressure,
Smithfield, wrote,
East
it
use,
it.
use
but,
;
the
extensive
accommodates
country
change,
John
Messrs.
on
for
the
oppose
no
it
where
he
in
to
and
grumble
perience
ex-
and
country, scarcely
put
where
the
way,
into
constantly
advocate
owners
succumb
to
his
of
Stevens, M.R.C.V.S.,
strong
a
If
own
the
forges
Mr.
premises
it.
still
willing to
approbation.
for
owners
him,
for
got
never
in
certain
are
results
much
too
people
some
found
be
shod
disease.'
horse
upon
favourable
were
tip
or
difficultyis that,
can
navicular
favour
a
the
helpers
shoe
Charlier
horses
conservatism, bigotry, shoeing smiths,
; but
stable
have
never
by communicating
and
that
conviction
they get pumice foot, or other diseases,
the present popular mode
of shoeing.
could
attendant
'
will
Charlier
Neither
his
be
to
ROADS.
AND
fore
to
to
state
ago
feet
it.
we
on
We
MESSRS.
had
shoes
them
putting
the
exception of
call the
ground,
from
the
of
By
this
difficultyin getting
it
using
us
in
which
but
no
it has
dare
the
on
the
sizes,from
at work
roads, shod
it
view
would,
and
in
least
to
as
dictate
to
the
prevented
until
instances
have
to
horses
tender
is of
great
it to
use
forty horses, of
or
and
business
a
horses, save
all
eighteen
country
point
these
of
use
a
facts which
These, sir,are
the
found
with
stones
From
effects,
the
many
of
shoes
laming
thousands
of
minded,
bued
im-
year.'
the
good
but
of seventeen
London
way.
of
;
We
alone, by preventing
out
edge.
few
a
able
some
important:
find
we
with
the
London
every
Here
those
verify.
can
wearing
pounds
to
this
also
is
now
on
in
readers
your
have
cob
its
for young
and
been
lately
and
larger extent,
at
prevent slipping,it
to
have
We
service.
;
the
on
wonderfully good
suit
serted.
in-
horses
state
space.
may
protected
on
few
with
was
is
is
stones, for horses
London
and
corns,
to
your
that it does not
running
hands,
on
it
put
a
like
produced
trespass
not
horses
feet,or
than
should
quite lately. We
hoof
iron
and
we
shoe
admirably
made
more
on
of
answer
it
the
; but
In
pared,
or
horse's
rim
iron.
in what
this
into
the
thin
the
shoe
this
found
;
unshod
were
breaking by
We
hoof
cut
made
groove
weight,
usual
harder
not
was
system
he
if
hoof
small
a
edge
as
the
on,
the
rather
of
63
SYSTEM.
one-third
and
width,
CHARLIER
THE
of about
made
the
half
of
ON
SiVUTHER
idea
as
evidently
men
that
those
them,
of
and
open
their
brains
might
other
people
who
possessing
the
be
itt
pretend
courage
to
64
HORSES
for half-a-dozen
persevere
establish
to
generally
the
place,and
first
a
lock-out.
their
to
servants
might
also
form
which
may
at
place
the
horse
and
to
be
iron,
that
than
to
district,the
their
views.
make
themselves,
from
their
the
suppression
their
poisonous drugs by
them
of
that
at their
the
stating at
last,he
first and
had
but
in
lost
almost
over
sal,
univer-
gentlemen
would
meetings shoeing
profitablydiscussed.
discussion
on
appropriately
be
meeting
safest
shoe
these
in
obliged,only
were
one
not
shoeing.
society for
of
suggestion
1878.
Agriculture in.
that the
each
converted
to
a
horses;
remarkable
A
is
easier
among
through this odious,
practice. Perhaps these same
the
for
themselves
meet
thirty horses
excuse
It
be
in
to
farmers
that,
meeting
first
the
in
but
;
among
be
administration
the
horses.
union
wants
first
must
last,to
November
culties,
diffi-
economical
could
consent
Lincolnshire
The
of
their
forge
grooviness in respect
own
under
sense,
highly
agree
first
only
It
they
but
able
were
fact, strike against the farriers,or
in
them,
they
forty horses
to
would
of which
Let
good
was
owns
patronise jointly the
owner
their
for
farmers
several
for
stables,
co-operation nothing
of
days
them
that
farmer
every
their
in
comfortable
and
them
until
experience they gradually gained,
told
second,
in the
years,
which
system
a
ROADS.
AND
way
the
only
Mr.
was
fore
cover
the
of
to
feet
the
shoeing,the
introduced
let
with
toe
here,
Massachusetts
Russell
Board
started
the
hind
tips, or
Dr.
heads
of
took
of
by stating
feet
be
crescents
bare,
of
Hunt, curiously
EXPERIENCE
AMERICAN
for
enough
medical
a
opinion, saying
whatever
it
"
owned
my
to
he
long, for
last
else fever
to
signifythe
had
he
how
he
views,
thought
for
it
themselves,
trouble
had
the
but
that
he
had
only
way
to
avoid
same
properly,that
let
it
come
down
hot,
made
asked,
as
his
the
found
'
of
toe
Do
doctor
blacksmith
for
account
medical
man
medical
a
man.,
if this
was
error
;
the
does?'
'
'
with
horses,
he
his
answered
shoe
the
as
let
jar of
shoes
on
had
that
shoe
and
the
your
put the
F
to
foot,
take
have
he
little iron
as
on
formerly
himself
for
was
it will
you
doctor
out
founder
that
so
the
as
putting
the
cover
When
is
it
hurry to expound
that
said
and
rose
a
to
as
heat
singularly in
was
used
I tell my
to
However,
he
founder
of those
practicalfarmer, one
will persist in thinking
who
a
Yankees
irrepressible
for
red-hot
'
on,
quite
that, as
was
upon,
Bowditch,
Mr.
stated,
shoe
a
got
questioned
he
influence.
to carry
counted
he
what
unless
him
being
terms
When
a
he
as
them
of
either
strange that
in such
He
make
to
called
all three
it appears
on
foot.
time,
one
every
shod,
foot
continuallyobliged
was
they put
been
have
such
he
"
horses
when
able
not
disease.
his
; and
should
a
This, by itself,would
hot.'
founder
at
because
feet
same
blacksmiths,
horse
is sometimes
in the
or
the
was
that
says
what
laminitis,or
red
he
replacing him,
be
in
harm
no
the
disease
one
horse,'and
*
says
did
of
'pounding'
produced
apparently only
against this
ordinary shoeing
the
was
dead
went
65
SYSTEM.
CHARLIER
man,
that
which
road
the
THE
OF
the
horse
possible;
the
frog
the
put
foot.'
on
that
only
as
red
he
hot
66
HORSES
hold
could
he
as
cold
shoe.
the
horn,
that
wanted,
he
he
as
the
frog
the
Even
in
the
case
little iron
as
toe
calk.
with
is,if
abused
for
little
piece
the
of
time
foot is
my
kept
saddle
than
me
small
'
in
roads,
hard
four
very
where
inches
the
the
I
toe
men
good
hut
do
take
good
work.
hill.
of
else
I
inlaid,
curled
calk.
as
if
a
driving
about
say
of
their
my
fear
no
a
winter
neck
her
the
is
I make
before
galloped
cutting
been
is
of
horse's
I rode
to
more
glare ice, with
on
around
I
to
go
I drive
of
I have
my
own)
have
care
Last
a
whole
required
pavements,
course,
The
habit
deal
or
they
afraid
am
I
condition.
"
were
I
is
in the
;
(and, of
long,
that
toe.
a
fear
iron'
all
am
down
anything
heel
a
feet
I drive
in proper
never
:
whose
have
no
on
horse
driving
of
in horses'
trouble
feet.
to
and
a
and
hundred
Nine
their
manage
mare
bit
small
at
hill.
that
had
it fills up
now
on
years,
friends
my
feet,and they
best
iron
down
corpses
a
of
series
a
hard
cripples;
have
you
to
on
she
heavy horses, and
some
eight ounces
or
secret
get
can
you
have
I
seven
very
as
farm,
shoeing : in fact, practically all.
of heavy draught horses, put on
from
come
foot.
of all the
thousandths
ninety-nine
feet
her
of
he
as
goes
me
and,
;
own
He
to
came
finger;
little
my
whole
his
forge, on
I drive
paring
shoe
to
protection.^
own
virtuallya
la Charlier
a
farriers
get
own
mare
of
size
the
almost
his
is
calks, or
in
tips
not
his
started
When
'
could
'for
says
:
say
he
his
in
this
;
believe
not
let
he
but
finding
did
'
hand
his
it in
He
ROADS.
AND
explained
"
toe, and
out
a
on
ice, and
with
a
the
ice
I had
no
SYSTEM
CHARLIER
marking the ice,that had calks
is hardly a
did
slip. There
thoroughly was
Mr.
let
into
Yet
so
the
value
that
while
will
will
allow
not
refuses
He
would.
mistaken
his
ideas.
with
success,
them, he
cured
has
to
Mr.
have
been
convinced,
to
routine
they
men,
the
going
he
which
says,
far
so
as
could
because
when
they
could
get them,
were
Mr.
the
in
only
cause
forge,be-
done
in
his
so
it
forge
to
party
;
gating
propa-
to
him,
and
when
back
to
ing
see-
he
their
to
Bowditch
first
way
their
have
here
to
be,
his
in
and
in
start
old
appear
instance, that
sensible
from
escape
own
it
Mr.
did
Bowditch
his
own,
over
it
was
not
a
He
commercial
neighbours only patronised
out
difficulties,
then
they
F
2
the
entirely master.
was,
that
(as
way
London),
forge of
a
and
comically enough,
success,
and
says
entirely all professional opinion
and
Smither,
Messrs.
go
had
forge
astray ; and, like
the
aside
matter,
come
them
that
saw
to throw
was
on
leading
was
People
they
he
it otherwise
a
Eussell
Both
and
become
says
of
He
be
to
horses
a
down.'
own
his
revenue
lame
farrier.
his
patronise
the
in
on
half
that
farm.
own:
iron
than
hoof,
shoeing
a
convinced
establish
not
thick,
breaking
own
wa?
owns
of
more
horse
the
his
principle but
bring him
any
does
not
inches
go
his
on
who
Bowditch
to
preparing them
other
people
he
on
tips
worth
it
found
for
of
that
inches
person
four
the
horse
two
on,
could
without
home
from
he
think
toe, would
mile
put him
if you
horse, who,
the
the
slipping, although
of her
fear
67
TIPS.
"
went
of which
their
he
way
him
alone
;
but
68
he
that, although
him
the
to
pay
work
had
account, his
forge
commercial
success.
it
the
We
like
man
and
either
start
on
the
just starting,
one,
or
to
carried
speak
to
on
authoritative
man
two
or
a
more
Bowditch,
and
outspoken.
as
of
up
have
their
only
them
of
making
They
forge,
own
to
co-operate,
in
trict
dis-
every
with
agreement
an
the
as
the
best
shoes
owners
will
A
choose, as
to
satisfaction
universal
given (although horse
smiths.
a
are
only
he
man,
young
just started,
having
to
new
a
one
shoeing
point
same
and
that
be, perhaps, the
worn
have
not
Kussell,
setting
would
long
it
neighbours that they should have
shoeing done there, or else, by union, bring
pressure
as
into
of
number
all their
taken
found
not
and
of
want
Messrs.
arrange
should
certain
in
individually. They
each
then
special occasion.
the
risk
not
longer,
only
be
ventured
independent
Smither,
Messrs.
need
a
sadly
are
England
the
so
such
on
manner
in
in
subject
have
he
would
nor
on,
had
would
man
a
lived
more
indirectly, a great
he
If
shrewd
so
answer,
however
was,
cost
less to
got
had
this
If
years'experience).
two
they
that
and
had
he
that
longer (as he
live
he
formerly,
surgeon,
horses,
his
likely to
were
or
than
year
facts
economical
horse-shoeing
his
way
veterinary
of
out
this
in
the
by
more
the
overlooked
have
to
seems
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
in
he
had
business
could
not
hitherto
quite easilysatisfied
stick
on
until
they
out) ; and, after a couple of shoeings
for himself
horses, he might discover
to him
was
by lending himself
era
open
on
are
the
that
to
a
the
70
CHAPTEK
DESCRIPTION
HOT
OF
FROG
FITTING,
AND
'
A
WHEN
TOES
AFFAIR
CLIPS
ON
RUSSELL
"
DONKEYS
UPON
HIS
ON
FEET
18
AND
HORN
ON
SHOEING
QUITE
SURGEONS
ING
BACK-
STRENGTH
"
OF
ALL
"
'
OF
GROWTH
IRELAND
IN
ROUTINE,
FACILITY
"
EXCESSIYE
"
'veterinary
MAYHEW,
SHOES
STANDS
TOE
OF
DOUGLAS
BY
SOLE,
'
'
HORSE
UNSHOD
OP
AN
AND
horse's
THE
OF
IX.
ONLY
UNNECESSARY
CLING
TO
THE
"
PRACTICES
*
WHICH
IN
HAVE
THEY
NAPOLEON
FROM
MOSCOW
speaking
When
free
sole
receive
to
arched
Its
pressure.
ground
it
Such
ground
is often
smooth
rocks,
and
crust
is
if the
hoof
were
heels,
than
under
wet
bottom
of
flat.
for instance
the
unshod
to
catch
periphery
would
fitted
more
arrest
the
irregularground
its proper
share
"
the
"
foot
hold
of
sole
is
weight,
down.
the
as
of
case
shape
of
allow
to
serve
a
slip
steep
very
concave
frog,
slipping
prevent
in
of
case
the
only
such
would
slipping.
the
to
hard
on
come
in
Hence
peculiar circumstances
ground,
that
of
contact
means
continual
to
slippery, as
the
and
no
under
intended
not
was
be
the
leaving
by
indicates
form
level
of
we
must
OP
HORSES.
importance
it
RETREAT
"
UNSHOD
pressure,
that
imply
to
mean
WITH
the
of
EDUCATED
BEEN
or
the
the
of
irregularitieswhich
On
either
softer
quite capable
as
those
who
or
more
of
taking
have
seen
HOOF
THE
horses
unshod
kind
of
may
bear
their
witness
when
way
turn
them
let
the
over
(say Dartmoor,
The
only partiallytransmitted
other
hoof
The
sembHng
the
with
be
may
the
hoof,
and
ground,
of
crust, instead
with
furnished
horny plates,called
gillsof
the
covered
with
softer
plates,
mentioned
an
bone,
hoof
horse
and
sole
and
which
many
surface
most
This
on
both
the
of
times
in
girth ;
is attached
and
to, and
at
times,
"
the
and
always finding
in
crust
of
number
and
greater
the
nicety
the
first-
gives
on
compound
the
coffin
the
the
than
weight
by,
is
bone
utmost
irregularamount
delicate
is
like
very
arrangement
thus
down
of the
outside,
coffin
suspended
only partially coming
how
right
closely to,
beautiful
thousands
measures
inside
inside
the
the
with
fit
adhere
plates.
adhesive
look
exactly corresponding
an
and
between,
we
be
not
imposed
super-
edgewise,
; whilst
mushroom
a
set
section,
of thin, flexible,
hundreds
laminae,
re-
the
to
The
like
smooth
several
the
by
may
all
are
?
wrong
being
is
semi-cloven
this
things
possibly go
Nature
could
that
find
we
sole
conic
suggestive of great resisting powers
weight of the horse ; but, if
the
horse
somewhat
as
superficialobservers
To
may,
foot.
described
on
the
arched
the
the
of
chance
slanting truncated
biggest end
behind.
for
of
weight
to
parts
double
a
roughest
or
where
down
come
them.
detail, direct
elasticityof
softest
instance)
Such
horses only roughly pick
to.
at full gallop : they lift their feet
in
ground
high, and
in
galloping
71
HORSE.
THE
OF
the
of the
crust,
frog
and
and
force,
arrangements
72
of
elasticity,
expansion,
all
danger
As
fear
is
from
for, as
them
of
which
been
already
'
frog :
In
used
for
hair
shall
form
frog
from
only
its
animal
as
the
either
in
gluey layer to
layer,are
which
the
frog is formed
in
the
wall,
Mr.
the
frog
as
the
the
that
or
it
covers.
frog ;
the
which
of
In
as
this
elastic
frog
;
total
it is meant
it is useful
repose
;
in
the
the
one
and,
sibility
insen-
take
to
where
to
a
the
former
it
its hold
prevents slipping.' Of
its surface
its
preserve
horn
be
state
coronet
nearly
and
form,
Over
unlike
the
substance, we
tough
of
surfaces
'
has
may
imagine
can
of
'
action
:
and
nature;
of
we
the
there
moisture,
like
fibres, stretched
its
as
ling
travel-
microscopic inspection.' The
ground,
smoothest
he says
sole
frog
of
compressed
if
it
'
in the
buffer,preventing concussion, whilst
a
while
and,
feeling,proves
the
upon
of
the
what
idea
-like
upon
bearing
the
horn
continuation
a
result
a
to
Field,'
footsore
fatty adhesive
a
under
wedge
to
acts
fair
a
when
is
horn
with
mixed
resembles
the
sofas ;
'
Douglas
authority says of
same
in
nothing
the
sole
the
The
horsehair
stuffing
be
to
obviate
to
is
become
of the
given.
to
in
description by
structure
compared
the
the
latter
wrote
of which
unlike
are
there
foot, as
horn
horn
the
tear
to
his
of
The
barefoot.'
both
horse
a
heel
from
'
Kangaroo
for
frog,sole, or
differs
and
wear
*
impossible
contraction
and
concussion.
regards
;
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
as
is
no
in the
differs
respect the
is,that the
outer
crust
strings, layer
woolly, oily,substance
crust
glazy-
from
sole
;
over
of the
the
bones
resembles
layer of
fibres in
DOUGLAS
each
This
frog is
To
of
such
design, the
lucid
impart
must
fail
cannot
hoof
thrown
of
with
them
covering
with
compressing
the
flows
its health
and
to
'
us
Mr.
Mr.
Douglas
amongst
us
all
these
and
them
laceratingand
delicate
which
on
have
to
tubes
through
the
crust
not
frequently appear
but
this
Russell.
smiths
do
America,
usual, has
as
'
long-felt want
He
writes,
the
in
1879,
in
been
of
140
containing fiftyillustrations,twenty-seven
which
are
and
the
Gr.
has
of
'
of
have
must
to
W.
fact
be
any
shoes
different
V.S.,
A
that
man
shoes
of
been
of
so
necessary
them.
many
seems
A
has
the
an
different
argue
anatomical
turn
form.
parts
of
and
against
to
the
be
a
shape
mind
were
of
than
more
kinds
great deal ought
of
introduction,
principles
inquiring
to
the
invented
different
and
pattern
writes
carefullycorrected
that
of
of
Bowler,
work.'
score
the
of
of
person
book
a
able
pages,
Mr.
for
depends
vitality?
;
supply
ing
think-
scorching, stiffening,and
the
nails
Literary shoeing
amongst
or
homogeneous
a
merely
rigid iron,
fluid
of
whether
ordered
by
use
sole
delicate, although strong,
and
so
in
detrimental.
habit
Some
themselves
were
old
particular architectural
light.
ask
to
out
the
merely
as
any
new
a
arrangements
highly
in
the
either
of
descriptions given by
perfectly designed
which
been
horn, without
of
block
paring
for but
have
off
pushing
all
so,
horse's
the
horn
uncalled
as
us
flakes,the growth
falls off in
new
being
only
not
of
the
of
downwards
turn.'
and
dead
becomes
73
HOOF.
THE
ON
;
but
thought
necessity
expected
74
HORSES
a
in
anything
described
is well
bars
are
;
well
the
with
foot,
soften
well
the
shielding the
which
shoe
if
a
small
spring
as
the
functions
of
from
parts
the
horse's
heel,
beaned
'
of
?
a
American,
Mr.
four
if
as
What
a
an
contrast
forty years'research
preface)of
'
'
would
farrier,and
that
Bowditch,
inches
of
iron
a
shoe,
the
bars
to
spring
found
the
trotting,
perform
to
the
and
foot
injury.'
by theory
condemn
;
upon
horse
the
English
coper
find
we
stated
(as
at
by
the
be
had
between
in
the
another
practical farmer,
round
but
the
between
not
arrived
curled
of
tender
in
action
of
one
relieve
is
get jammed
to
half-
The
and
to
one
jar.
experimented
not
were
and
result
has
to
cast
heel
the
cushioning
were
of
about
unimpeded
stone
it for him
found
and
one
effectually
done
the
quarter
the
horse
state
a
made
be
foot,
that
from
soften
the
the
and
being
steel,
The
in
horses
will
is,perhaps, scarcely fair
It
a
and
quicken
sensitive
heels
on
allow
free
does
surface
when
to
frog
important
its
hoof
possible to
as
of
mellow
weight,
concussion
the
down
will
of
made
bars
is
shoe,
surface.
shoe
and
tempered,
of
leaving
the
'
ground
shoe
ground
devices
as
this
the
on
is
in the
bruises
sprung
horse's
best
effects
unshod
being
this will
being
the
lame,
bars
the
fit upon
and
points
inch
as
shoe
be
in this
doubted
centennial
'
to
as
so
tested
sore
the
on
I have
steel,the
the
concaved
be
is to
This
'
:
preventing
cracks.
their
follows
weight
of nature,
which
"
Another,
made
bear
quite
name
as
and
and
a
least.
at
case
there
scoop-toed rolling-motion shoe,' if
'
from
ROADS.
AND
toe
who
'
to
RUSSELL
horses
a
Great
remarks.
paring
the
crust
exfoliate
of
their
of
sole
to
the
greatest
level
all
on
as
Nature
find
one
that
of
lost, in
made
has
the
to
opinion, it
is
himself
that
than
principles were
these
for
round
thrown
the
to
help
to
when
are
had
an
'
found
existed.'
expressing
conclusion
The
to
fact
are
only
he
considers
inventive
four
and
patterns
Nature.
which
all his
'
the
shoes
of
kinds
instruments
toe
after
different
of
away
worn
farriery
on
have
never
come
So
this
foot ; but
Kussell,
have
'cripples.'
and
consulted, this variety
Mr.
score
not
opinions respecting
would
me,
that
have
have
writers
horse's
a
been
various
useful
curled
they
for
necessary
orthopedic
been
time
form
that
a
many
have
of
is
various
to
common
generally proportioned
shape
form
seems
strange
more
original form,
natural
thus, should
that
their
Nature
provident
It
is
to
the
feet
whose
horse
a
length
desirable
most
ever
of
led
been
to
necessary
for
;
this circumstance,
From
have
the
their
from
perfect foot,
a
shod
quite
frequently destructive,
so
degree,
some
shoes.
is
stand
generally
is
been
with
meet
deviation
it, it
taking
perfectly
crust
examine
to
frog and
also
foot may
the
never
shoeing
seldom
we
that
wish
we
the
down
worthy
note-
ance
import-
the
accord, and
own
from
does,
the
on
of
series
contains
is laid
of
case
a
it
as
only, leaving
pare
sides, so
such
mode
to
care
If
'
upright.
for
abused
stress
the
in
even
forty years' experience,
of
farrier
'
book, however, coming,
This
years.'
feet
their
had
had
that
iO
SMITH.
SHOEING
anything else,
than
better
be
AMERICAN
AN
"
inches
answer
so
powers
of
iron
better
76
far-fetched
all his
than
hand,
both
on
the
clip
a
sole
will,
and
dry
coffin
brittle.
the
'The
nor
hot
fitting;
the
means,
that
shoes
hoof
On
the
the
is in
Although
the
book,
such
a
a
else
;
to
be
the
sole.
on
concave
apt
I
or
surface
on
to
have
'
the
that
of
this
the
with
the
of
in the
shoe,
horn.
of the
and
evils
many
horn
operation,
abuses.'
and
certifies to the
he
that
should
:
rapidly
rectness
cor-
descriptions contained
we
this
as
perfectly flat
be
of
premise
may
many
so
than
right growth
anatomical
be
it will
the
on
its
to
sequence,
con-
practice.
correspond
veterinary surgeon
passage
worn
fitted
is
the
we
everything
of this
other
to
prolificsource
of
necessary
generally true, for, by
is
occur
opposition
hard,
hoof.'
be
means
the
close
become
a
the
lining
thoroughly imbedded
hand, however, this fusing
other
tive
sensi-
fitting present
is burned
latter
is the
and
as
of
cannot
any
this
and
inequalitieswhich
until
also
Burning
as
to
furtherance
for the
closely by
as
hot
of
advocates
roof
impedes,
healthy growth
alleged
sometimes
well
as
The
does
not
should
in
guarantee
scarcely meet
shoe
with
ordinarily
ground-wearing part, but
the
produce
shown
surface
next
lameness
that,
in
:
that
"
membranous
bone,
It also
specious reasons
It is
the
horn, causing the
the
'
destructive.
very
thus
clipping
toe, and
impair
the
of
pores
is
other
speak
and
fitting
the
time, partially destroy the
in
and
laminae,
underneath
"
him
find
the
on
'
quarters
On
inventions.
hot
of
practice
is, raising
ROADS.
refreshing to
is
it
The
'
AND
HORSES
the
foot, else
by pressing
a
sound
is
on
foot, the
78
HOESES
work.'
the
One
shoe
first of
of the
precaution
is to
all.
Park
M.K.C.V.S.,
furnishes
pamphlet
shoes
his
all
to
myself, writes
an
ardent
I
'
:
I
live
the
than
more
the
neighbours
has
been
the
neighbouring gentry employ
fine
a
back
can
calking,if
without
road
glad
am
for him
thing
horse
A
I
I
load
a
you
let
on
;
any
him
my
made
by
of
many
shoe
to
on
too, that it
say,
him
have
fully.
beauti-
puts
business
in
the
stranger
shoes
he
to
keeps
correspondent
quarter those
one
to
pence,
six-
which
country.
shoes
his
do.
all
farrier,who
think
really don't
for
Charlier, a
the
in
bit
he also
;
line
Stevens,
sends,
A
la
inside
little
Mr.
instructions
a
the
a
groove.
London,
horses
disciple in
weigh
method.
just
information.
crust
this white
and
shoes, "c., concerning
ready-made
horses
Lane,
pamphlet, giving
a
who
the
cutting
the
marks
;
preserved intact, with
when
spare,
found
applying
of
bottom
line, which
be
when
taken
be
to
whitish
A
ROADS.
lightlythe
pare
crust, will then
be
must
AND
this
on
ordinary
stand
on
his
FEET.'
be
they
read
these
Owners,
have
may
to
short
is
the
a
at
shoe,
shoe
a
or
be
which
length
Having
the
rather
likely
would
has
to
shoe
which,
heels,
at
otherwise,
or
chapters, and
Charlier
the
bars, and,
half
bill.'
the
best, with
is
as
give
farmers
not
next
called
been
arrived
found
duced
in-
beginning,
"
three-quartered,
reaching
touching
or
shoeing, having only
six
tip, say
venture
trial
a
be
may
who
on
inches
the
already
successfully at
round
four
to
"
inches,
'
this
fill the
point
OF
STOUTNESS
(which
be
led
'
at.
of
full extent
farmers
American
doing
away
with
kind
feet.
At
their
this
when
even
They
she
rewards
so
their
to
in
that
the
left the toe
wonderfully perfect and
tear
;
for,
worked
he
hoof
toe
in
the
many
will
alone
it is
will
grow
roads,
and
the
on
stand,
a
fied
stupe-
or
unable
or
smiling
was
right direction,
them
the
with
face
to
each
at
vancing
ad-
must
fact
left
that
when
she
closed
dis-
Nature
designed
foot
be
the
removed
of
the
toe
no
be
be
kept rasped
roads,
part
all resist
under
horse
outgrow
other
restricted
long, even
of
will
and
wear
the
and
roughest kind
is what
to
all
standing
countries, the
too
thus
erringly,supposed
provided in an extra
of
tips
require
not
investigating
beautiful
even
means
over
such
the
should
scales
have
do, although they
ever
by
popularly,but
is
toe
it, which
upon
for it will
hard
if
out
the
barefoot
is
calls
The
with
'maimer
of
of account
the
be.
face
and
not
to
the
eyes
had
as
made
Nature
last
perfect vision
horse, defective
also
unaware,
efforts
liberally-disposedmen,
and
protection
were
that
the
from
dropped
still further
the
perfection.
astounding
It is
thing
plainly giving
towards
arrive
but
;
presumption
brought
this
here
fact
were
was
step
have
their
they
they could
small
their
by
whether
short
point they
success.
upon
the
this
fully to appreciate the
benignly
they tried),they might
stopped
even
79
TOE.
themselves
pushed
apparently overawed
by
if
THE
improvement
'
Impecuniosus
AT
ask
reflect,and
to
the
was
reach,
would
all
HOOF
wear.
in its
hard
back
of
as
all
the
The
growth
work
on
occasion-
;
80
HORSES
ally
to
suitable
a
donkeys
macadamised
donkey's
even
gives
turned
the
of
want
in
over
stone
like
upward
care
and
;
showing
illustration
toe
Ireland
broken
loose
over
In
draught
in
an
overgrown
from
moon
shape.
and
unshod
roads,
Mayhew
and
length
worked
are
ROADS.
AND
keeping
half
a
it
a
rasped
back.
last
Only
December
referred
these
in
Ireland, he
and
only
not
on
the
of
work,
this
to
He
donkeys.
correspondent
a
the
donkeys being
had
the
hoof
the
it had
he
ilustration.
Mayhew's
in
the
roads
to
cause
In
other
that
in
the
He
of
part
the
countries
for
the
comfort
laziness
of
the
Irish
the
superfluous
horn
that
the
even
on
this
is
Yet
the
the
necessary
toe
will
roads
that
greatest
has
of
for
of
even
protection
is
only
all
very
another
a
iron,
affair
for
with
can
every
all
the
the
horse
in
leaving
proof
it,
upon
to
that
needed
may
of
the
cause
and
Nature
hoof
?
A
mitigated form,
say
but
;
and
tear.'
part
donkey,
tear.'
animals.
demands
and
be
shown
convincing
a
in its most
Some
mistake.
well
wear
proof
fullyprovided
the
of
certainly calculated
'are
amount
further
What
outgrow
and
and
wear
owners
affords
up,
kept trimmed,
is
toe
tear
calculated
are
of
but,
Certainly
:
Ireland
;
and
says) as
'
amount
greatest
wear
says
was
away,
turned
requiring shortening exactly (as
to
unshod
worn
become
he
worked
the
outgrown
having
toe
been
not
temporary
con-
and
lately,when
saw
contrary,
a
illustration
same
that
says
in
that
that
it
this
is
this remark
is
quite
was
IN
DONKEYS
actuallymade
Such
IRELAND
the
to
argument
an
IN
AND
writer
by
only
can
Irish
an
clergyman.
fished
be
81
ENGLAND.
the
from
up
who
it would
also
depths of bigotry. Those
urge
deny that donkeys could go unshod, but for the fact
that they see them
doing so, and successfully.Now,
shod ; and
in England, donkeys are
why ? Only as
in
fact,the sheet-anchor
us
having
in
described,
of
point
in
are
no
of
shoes
necessity of
which
such
better
than
ours
to
evident, therefore, that
our
would
owners
this
should
horse
experiment,
and
Can
the
should
to
is endowed
with
the
have
feet
than
is
Nonsense
far
vain
name
no
to
the
for
the
with
in
that
regard
their
Why
be
for it
practical
nor
made
the
to
is less fitted
argument
be
England
richer.
in
he
will
it
and
be
also
latter
with
gence
intelli-
succeed.
that
the
animal
which
greater speed
and
power
should
his
for
inferior
in
such
creed
Mayhew
worse.
laboured
shoes,
reallybelieve
one
as
so
;
reasoning
donkeys
that
neither
stand
desire
a
any
worse
good
statement
will
nature
of
time
same
hold
not
The
?
the
at
roads,
investigation
more
conviction,
off
leaving
gain by
would
by
are
as
no
of
up.
open
To
ahead
all sticklers
futile chain
puerileand
they follow it
the
than
the
bear
moist
our
is rather
"
allow
'
is
and
nearly
will
will not
climate,
way
departure
who
Ireland
moister
a
arguments
barefooted
go
roads.'
hard
and
climate
chief
of those
"
equine species to
the
of the
One
routine.
affair of
an
instruct
the
G
a
says
:
'
both
respects ?
thing
; it is some-
has
Nature
waywardness
of
in
conceit;
82
HOESES
afford
could
There
the
Veterinary
; but
ideas
new
to
and
love
cling
that
witches.
the
door
the
latter
The
than
is
civilisation
in
the
place
to
of
of
to
throw
fact
we
harder
of
God
an
foot
superstition,
which
door
;
but
tion
supersti-
keeps
nail
to
shame
did
we
out
had
1880,
to
able
without
a
will
by pointing
us
nations, with
were
to
work
to
any
whose
the
will
made
abandon
on
on
nation
be
to
historians
on
it
historians
appeal
on
of
English
tacked
these
and
;
have
they
the
to
the
of
grace
semi-civilised
than
tenacity
Future
foundations
conversant,
were
horse's
that
year
further
that
and
does, certainly,less harm
century.
artificial
creation
adopting
the
on
intelligence
record
the
in
in
superstition utterly unworthy
a
nineteenth
us,
use
the
and
upon
slow
people cling
shoe
on
affected.
favourite
horseshoe
a
ing
shoe-
to
is
firmness
a
routine
hoof
practices in
Some
nailing
the
the
to
educated.'
been
towards
displays
ignorance
the
mortal
adopt
attribute
somewhat
with
seem,
it
incongruities
to
the
which
are
surgeons
for
consent
surgeons
with
evils
before
evils
of
perfectibility
accounting
no
Veterinary
guide.
all
the
deserting reason,
men,
a
as
is
all
endure
to
question
to
invention.
when
afford
could
mankind
ROADS.
AND
the
living
not
fail
out
the
customs
the
protection
horse
to
his
feet.
In
the
the
horses
the
Vistula.
over
of
retreat
lost
all
Yet
rough, hard,
the
French
their
shoes
they
frozen
found
army
before
their
ground.
from
Moscow,
they
reached
to
France
way
83
CHAPTER
UNSHOD
HORSES
THE
IN
ZULU
WAR
FARRIERS
"
MEXICO,
LAMENESS
they
the
In
'
THE
interesting
of
account
irregularcavalry on
men
have
shoe
at
their
all ;
'
to
slippery
stone
wonder
how
feet.'
It is
few
these
saw
find
News
days
the
'
go
he
whole
took
'
the
of
in
front
battle
such
an
of
reporting
of
these
G
same
2
his
of the
do
some
;
not
excursion,
this
Ulundi,
part.
their
keep
could
through ; and, on
correspondent
special war
war
Few
polished, wet,
beds, making one
that
active
with
of
horses
the
last,the
18
made
:
that, in
remark
get
lives.
he
'
sheets
not
Cape gives an
says
torrent
unshod
the
cavalry
our
July
He
remarks
worthy
before
shod
over
in
our
horses
the
horses
and
had
they
raid.
a
of
FROM
LEGS.
in their
that
ride
a
AND
could
at
IN
FREEDOM
they
'
specialmilitarycorrespondent
HORSES
of
Advertiser
Morning
TIVE
COMPARA-
"
many
better
IN
TAILORS,
UNSHOD
"
FEET
because
went
never
STREETS
STUDS
India
in
unshod,
ARE
REMAREA.BLE
OF
mutiny
went
and
THEIR
DISEASES
AND
the
shod,
AND
ETC.,
AND
COGS
HORSES
ARMY
FROZEN
ON
OF
INUTILITY
horses
UNSHOD
"
THE
IN
TELEGRAPH
DAILY
"
During
MUTINY
INDIAN
'
'
ETC.
THE
X.
In
was
only
which
in
fact,they
August
of
animals
a
the
9,
'
that
we
Daily
*
the
84
HORSES
work
constant
devoid
of
superfluous
the
made
as
to these
must
be
'
able,
shod
the
of
in
the
to
Ulundi,
at
downwards)
hands
follow
be
in the
yet
;
fled
they
slippery
would
beds,
utmost
were
the
than
further
miles
was
there
Surely
of wet,
river
All
horses.
man
farriers
does
a
supposed
his
With
blame
if
Sheets
wind.'
complaint
a
fallinglame.
(from 14|-
told, to
are
the
in
not
war,
hoofs
not
not
farrier,
the
before
bad
to
pounds
?
sergeants
first
In
lame
own
my
it went
out
two
before
they joined
twelve
had
for
sold
regiment,
the
10th
India,
shoeing smiths,
and
farrier-majorand
worked
and
to
been
the
the
bred
others
a
there
that
One
army.
of
out
regiment;
a
second
for
a
the
a
are
few
farrier
only
the
farriers
been
as
now
Hussars,
were
of
tailor, and,
but
fifteen
had
much,
they
until
cast
are
:
tailors,
once
clodhoppers,
horses
says
for
army
the
eel
an
I should
that
of the
the
then
and
of
Douglas
wonder
a
mischief;
colliers, and
walk,
just before
the
of
haberdashers,
unable
it
shoeing smiths
most,
farriers,who
is
Mr.
any
generally
is
consent
alive.
me,
it
In
make
to
necessary
get the
to
that
army,
than
more
skinned
being
facts
thought
is
any
necessary
in the
even
appear,
others.
than
better
no
are
previous knowledge
'
the
Zulus, when
'
ponies
we
fact, it
to
good
this,they
all
for
but,
in this.
try the
to
Military
a
and
on
them
naturally keeps
;
rolling stones
calculated
pursuit
had
horses
something
and
these
reports
ROADS.
flesh
nails,
as
through
rock,
have
they
hard
as
are
AND
remaining
tailor, had
had
been
a
86
HORSES
hill, without
down
he
then
an
will
do
wicked
dew
roads,
beaten
turned
the
of
Many
severe
of
traffic
was
glass as
it
smooth
worn
falls
much
retarded
Those
City.
by
comparatively speaking,deserted
horses
of
out
at
such
she
could
could
value
any
time.'
a
not
her
use
tender
and
delicate
oftener
than
once
hundreds
what
The
others
of
of
avoided
if, at the approach
have
their
horses
shoes
they
do
"c.,
; but
not, and
case
time,
they
and
are
if
generally used,
hold
good
for
a
or
day
of
of
nails
so, and
be
various
might
variously
to
were
the
of
be
do
mended
recom-
(and
so
systems
smooth
worn
fall
answer
likelyto
all this
they
them
to
the
of
their
small, get
or
too
were
winter, people would
not),none
not
horses
lady only expressed
that
of
even
some
found
say
with
perfect. Cogs, big or
short
will
shod
will
her
hoofs
advocates
systems
cogs,
that
felt.
and
patentees
them
writer
insertion
This
month.'
a
the
were,
had
because
'
and
fares
thorough-
the
their
bear
slippery
nobody having
told
carriage
to
the
West-end
; for
lady
roughing, as
stand
not
One
hard
slipping
pitied, horses.
willinglyhave
would
the
way,
the
busier
the
of
being
foot-paths ;
the
is
year,
then
on
and
in
this
of
fell in the
consequent
were
Here
given
much
not
carriage-ways
the
of
not
pitiable,but
the
state
had
frost
'
weather
the
Even
horse.
shod
a
on
into
and
wheels.
Daily Telegraph
'
the
As
:
the
on
than
article
an
'
experienced
hoofs
the
in
January 28,
brake
a
better
from
extract
ROADS.
AND
out.
in
a
are
very
either
In
and
they are not
used, whilst they only
leave
;
'
one
stuck
'
when
will
pick
not
feet
calks, as
calk.'
He
had
bare,
and
so
their
part
that
the
there
bare
The
inch
in
and
in
What
a
immense
the
suffered
fourth
the
A
a
carved
was
clips,one
on
heel
screw
cog,
put
of
cog
each
then
was
by
heathenism
of
the
hind
of
the
was
pression
com-
the
crust
of
them
perpetrated
each
inch
an
wretched
with
his
each
the
on
the
groom
in
the
receive
to
quarter.
high, was
On
This
and
crust
a
this,
Besides
on
inch
must
within
up
!
one
equal height.
farriers
quarter,
and
and
regarded
each
an
laceration
shoe, and,
heel.
of
nails.
the
an
shoes,
four
on
out
of
set
in
dimensions
toe
fear
for each
fibres
three-quarters of
also
upon
fashion
each
of
four
wedging
natural
on
light horse,
full
inches
hollow
thus
were
to
reason
three-sixteenths
driven
calk, three-quarters
one
a
their
of
hoof
three
by
any
a
on
amount
delicate
be
heels
slipping
valuable
a
have
were
of
toe-
otherwise.
seen
of three
space
an
have
there
eight nails, nearly
thickness,
the
danger
mare
small
'a
because
act
nearly thoroughbred,
in which
his
would
has
writer
rode
no
would
toe
he
was
neither
;
heel
yet when
down
jperMr.
and
turned
the
that
toe
behind
calk
no
seen
both
use
;
he
lake
frozen
a
upon
have
it
which
is not
of
the
general rule
a
used),
are
We
streets.
condemned
Bowditch
c^lks
and
cogs
glassy
upon
shoe, although
(the facilityfor doing
liftingthe foot higher from
by
when
ground,
Charlier
snow
up
increased
is
87
'ROUGHING.'
FOR
COGS
the
Even
expected.
least
'
'
OF
INCONVENIENCE
put
other
on
heel,
shoe
front
high,
was
victim
faction
satis-
utmost
;
and
to
all this
forge
of
a
88
HORSES
ROADS.
AND
,
veterinary
But, perhaps, he
surgeon.
was
shoeing to
are
not
order.
It has
slaves
been
In
a
paper
the
through
Bank,
horses
wood,
and
so
kind
of
in
use.
have
to
pavement,
quickly
devise
glass the
the
for
them
horse
the
road
as
In
horse,
wet
on
and
grass
Mexico, Yucatan,
Spanish), G-uatemala,
Eica, the
Costa
Ecuador,
mules,
of hard
carrying
United
very
roads,
are
most
is
that
on
has
man
been
naked
kind
one
of
all
over
out,
none
use
insult
the
pass
on
of
an
It
wearing
that
(?)
glass, were
This
can
of
veniencing
incon-
or
of them
will
either.
(both British and
Salvador, Nicaragua,
Honduras
San
States
Bolivia, Peru,
donkeys
and
and
is
uniform
a
over
home
at
without
alternately
slip,or
much
as
on
But
ingenuity
long time, proved
is
for traffic
readers.
its
asphalte,
universal
in use.'
the
to
had
we
travel
to
another,
on
the
he
a
If
The
of
variety
another.'
for
invented.
sense
widely, and
hard
shoe
only pavement
common
of
'
horseshoes
the
from
adapted
ill suits
a
driving
or
macadam,
over
Smither.
of
absolute
an
are
Westminster
shoe
pavement
Mr.
would
From
The
has
agriculturists it
arises
travel
bigger
owners.'
difficultyin riding
streets
Ask
be
foot
'the
?
would
to
horseshoes
granite.
kind
one
it
that
London
pavements
horse
modern
are
to
that
necessity,but
ladies
'
dedicated
maintained
been
of
than
fashion
to
that
said
well
worked
of them
heavy packs
from
of
Colombia,
and
over
zuela,
Vene-
Brazil, horses,
every
tion
descrip-
exceedingly rough,
the
back
country
UNSHOD
down
the
to
journey
back
HORSES
his lot to
in
shoeing
would
than
more
could
four
see
from
it
was
this
that
horses
without
Nor
total
have
work
immunity
with
a
if
; and
No
it.
man
simple remedy;
a
of
years
many
and
at
incapacitated
rience
expehim
convinced
naturally
better,
than
this
is
and
wanted,
kind
shoes
such
been
slightesthe
to
animals
load
animals
the
in
a
hoofs.
it has
countries
resorted
seeking
never
of
these
him
helped
without
work
but
of
five hundred
or
their
hundreds
of
they
and
out
wear
certainly have
most
miles,
; for
one
have
could
of
making
cases
experience
work
and
own
some
never
speaks from
writer
time
yet they
;
in
hundreds
several
of
and
89
DISEASES.
FOOT
FROM
seaboard,
again
The
FREE
further,
travel
can
them.
all.
Unshod
horses
from
diseases
of
enjoy
the
feet
almost
and
a
legs.
Side-bones, sandcrack, seedy toe, ringbone, thrush,
and
quittor
were
in the
seen
never
Spavins, curbs, splints, and
Thrush
rare.
shoe
from
is
Coleman
that
said
become
diseased
the
sensitive
'
and
nature
intended
horse
upon
is
so,
out
has
and
suffers from
frog
]Mr.
that
of
blood
useless
instead
of
frog pressure
;
litter,thrush
by
pricking
with
cannot
or
traction
con-
insensible
to
The
purpose
horn
get.
or
it
unshod
should
nail,
'
reaching
the
for
coming
a
that
the
he
the
Professor
from
so, unless
he
very
pressure,
says
produces
becoming
it,
Douglas
supply
a
were
it.
have
must
stables.
by removing
noxious-smelling fluid.'
a
rotten
caused
the
frog
frog ;
oozes
that
'
;
prevents
windgalls
cured
effectually
horse
any
writer's
stand
Quittor
by
the
90
HORSES
horse
resting
with
the
heel
the
should
opposite
shoe
them
feet,'
he
himself;
there
them
to
such
does
like
one
in
such
diseases
they
laugh
overreach
to
in
horn
For
sandcrack
the
above-cited
natives
If
exist.
evil
no
the
the
bring
with
doing
because
iron.
can
horse
thing,
a
names
no
is
it is
noticed,
are
no
what
culty
diffi-
unshod
he
the
of
with
An
what
knows
(especially
can
they.
bearing
coronet
horses
do
he
foot
the
upon
knows
and
ever
that
understand
corns
neither
are
and
countries,
that
of
and
foot,
one
unshod
injury
toe
of
calked)
if
inflict
seedy
shoe
even
consequences
and
the
scarcely
and
cannot
toe
be
quittor,
so
;
the
Hence
his
feels
of
one.
get
'
with
ROADS.
AND
suggest
you
face,
your
to
and
no
wonder.
Mr.
Dalziel
known
practically
So
they
with
:
noads
human
nine
are
fashion
the
on
anchylosis
beings.'
hundredths
caused
"
By
of
shoeing
of
foot
splint,
the
being
with
of
being
the
Mayhew
most
the
more
than
existence
inheritance
treatment
of
the
to
the
shoes.
and
no
are
are
tion,
civilisa-
on
natural
illegitimate
diseases
of
one
horse.'
the
equine
the
are
foot
boots
ringbone
or
the
human
attendants
consequences
and
on
people,
most
into
Spavin,
legitimate
Corns
unnecessary
came
corns
'
says
to
and
unpleasant
for
'
:
says
feet
blame.
of
ninetyand
legs
91
CHAPTER
AND
HOOF
BKITTLE
'
THE
MORE
CUKE
SEEDY
TO
hoof
Brittle
alive
to
only
when
hand,
and
is
the
it
gets
ointment,' joined
with
applied
liniment
Mr.
Douglas
healthy,
nothing
but
shutting
natural
up
and
the
and
which
results.'
the
last
:
to
rules
the
of
it taken
of
a
in
'
hoof
kinds,
various
or
the
stimulating
The
first two
act
Grease
the
upon
as
horse's
a
to
tar,
or
surface
circulatinginwards
the
weeks, expressed
stand
to
horn, prevent
the
horn
Burdett
his
use
cleanser
a
horses
allow
reaching
from
keeping
horn, are
either
"
day.
in
from
for
the
never
pores
air
hoofs
Lieutenant-Colonel
few
But
kind
some
'
are
causes.
coronet.
The
and
during
moisture
by
preserving
;
the
ROADS
HARD
perhaps
is
ointment,
'
water
litter
upon
it
stoppings
the
TO
disease.
says
ornamenter
an
'
over
the
only aggravate
or
treated
to
LEADS
"
all
advanced
blister,mercurial
a
feet
that
very
WATER-
HOOF.
vexations
it is then
OFTEN
FOOT
UNSHOD
^
THE
"
HOOF
common
of
some
GETS
PUMICE
AND
THE
so
IT
BRITTLE
"
TOE,
FAVOURABLE
ARE
TKEITMEI^T
EFPECTITE
SANDCRACKj
XI.
by
the
wardly,
out-
"
sequences
con-
ruinous
with
has, within
opinion
of
grease
92
HORSES
somewhat
in
habit
similar
'
is
mixtures
the
such
with.
As
will
'
Mr.
a
"
it
'
Fearnley,
all
a
wanted
is
renewal
a
dependent
not
of
splutter
mere
the
of
the
on
tough,
thing, just
;
interfered
the
is
and
words
cause
a
is the
That
vitality?
carried
the
to
What
or
man
stable-
always
in
class),
part.'
heat
ointment,
do
irritation
works
latter
can
vigorous
idea
of
has
his
they
ing
soften-
is not
that
amongst
of
greasing
mercurial
name
splutter of vitalityin
of
she
'
oils
greasy
desirable
not
(which
embrocations
call
and
right kind
blister,
great weight with
of
is the
the
to
stimulating
is
hot
idea
This
supplies when
Nature
as
the
stopping
soft horn
dense, springy horn
with
them.
ful
bane-
equally
hoofs
under
for
first ;
whilst
horn,
the
cooling
or
end
wrong
'
cowdung,
them
Another
terms.
stopping
or
ROADS.
AND
use
which
is
lastingvitality,
caused
the
by
tinual
con-
application of drugs.
There
called
is another
the
or
bricks.
the
with
and
cold
but
flannel
hard
will
As
by day.
cooling it. The
day (removing
hoof
the
hoof;
water
it
the
to
heat
it will
be
must
for
flannel
In
lose
a
few
the
and
kept
foot
walked
the
days
round
the
soaked
kept
it the
remove
the
well
wet
last
instead
out
time)
the
are
stones
cover
be
cannot
to
bare
fastened
over
is
it
is best
horse
road.
begin
fall
hoof,
shoes
the
on
is then
to
brittle
horse's
stand
to
allowed
otherwise
thing, or
put
flannel
by night
cool
smooth
is
Folded
pastern,
coronet
and
he
treating
The
cure.'
'water
and
removed,
of
way
top
of
twice
a
over
a
of
the
harsh, dry, shrivelled,
94
HORSES
it must
out, and
grow
opposite character,
disease
The
of
course
they
be
the
of the
sides
little friction
too
the
From
him
in
a
standing
stables
his
brittle,instead
of
In
of
wilds
of-the
and
Exmoor
of
continent
rest
hoofs
Europe,
of the
all
evident
should
in
and
shodJ
is not
on
the
Another
great
contrary,
Douglas
upon,
or
and
then
a
says
either
:
keep
in
warm
are
we
and
dry
parts of the
many
considerable
a
run
about
their
feet,
rocks,
over
flat,as
it is for
the
to
most
have
'
says
:
suppose
part
a
the
corns,
civilised and
many
;
animals
firom
or
writer, a Devonian,
wild
portion
and
difficulty,
hoofs, for these
contracted
from
a
is
receives
become
sandcracks, "c., until they become
been
This
precipitous ridges, unshod
without
of
advantage
suffer
never
straw,
his
grassy
hoof
foaled, we
Dartmoor,
up
is done
this
hard.
Mr.
globe, horses
through ravines, and
yet
the
on
the
tread
to
have
to
keeping moist, tough, and hard.
of Wales, the
in the
mountains
Orkneys,
the
is
soft
upon
that
surprised
soft
fields
tries
one
or
grass
horse
who
the
on
attrition.
or
moment
grass
the
On
tions.'
direc-
every
field
a
of
instead
theory.
mistaken
'
roads,
in
When
on.
particular
inclined
is
either
exercised
horse
it
same
practical if there
be
can
nearly
of treatment
course
the
by
cured.
embody
to
an
again begins to suffer,
been
never
of
it is done.
way
brought
horse
that
found
It is
first
desire
the
produced
Nothing
:
says
wanting
this
has
'
Mayhew
be
the
and
he
that
say
that
action
resumed,
this is
this is
and
horn
replaced by
be
again
may
ROADS.
AND
moor
Dart;
but,
continual
of
succession
chronic
the
and
down
the
especially in
spring,
of
and
bogs
and
ponies gallop
sides
with
rock
the
of the
pretty sight
a
tors," and
granite
herds
rough steep
It is
up.
"
or
all,besides
the
of rain,
state
fearlesslyalong
or
of
spite
in
Yet
stones.
with
strewed
95
FOOT.
steep rough hills
very
combes,"
"
rugged
HORSE'S
THE
ON
ATTRITION
the
to
combes,
them,
see
foals
by
their
the
shoe
hoof
lacks
sides.'
Mayhew
alone
rests
needful
The
attrition.'
by exercising
salutary
natural
stimulant
causing
a
itself
the
examine
the
hardness
or
of the
hands
of
gloves
the
bottom
on
a
roughly
delicate
nature
Besides
the
the
removal
which
their
looked
a
of the
play
so
is
the
'
:
no
and
skin
of
horn
Magistrates
and,
:
of
The
by
they have
them, or
navvies
down
comes
strap.
as
upon
man's
advantage
a
their
bonafessional
pro-
neither
spade handles, although
iron
riveted
than
and
hand
forward
be
cannot
horse
by
or
Gardeners
pad
nor
before
is
as
thicken
to
foot.'
vagrants
gardeners'
'
that
says
human
roads
secretion, not
like
softness,judge whether
beggars.
wear
Youatt
skin
'frozen-out
fide
horn
caused
it acts
and
task,
its
to
hand.'
blacksmith's
the
making
accommodate
to
foot, because
splutter of vitality
mere
but
answers
hard
on
'
'
lasting worth,
a
friction
or
circulation
to
As
the
animal
whole
the
to
'
:
course
attrition
unshod
the
horse
earth, of
the
upon
shod
the
of
says
The
and
slides
hoof
being
of
of
a
the
more
hand.
of attrition
being gained
shoes, expansion
prominent
a
part
and
in the
tion
contrac-
general
96
HORSES
be
cannot
the
by
horse
the
of
fixing
shoe.
their
But
internal
structures
necessitated
not
'
by
needful
the
to
that
show
wired
in
of
the
foot
lost
that
and
its
functions.
to
recognise
laws, the
truth
in which
mastery
The
'
:
nails
slow
Nature's
of
'
health,
however,
all
cure
the
their
recover
Like
water
and
the
nails, allow
was,
horn.
says
rigid
in
sound
Mayhew
become
may
rule.
the
exercised
veterinary mind
plain a
producing
shoes
these
is
its maintenance
success.
may
remove
which
so
in
of
powers
motion
The
aid
complete
a
ROADS.
foot, and
removal
the
Without
whole
lend
also
health,
heels
the
of
economy
AND
the
ignorant especiallydelight.'
The
would
he
last
horse
time.
attended
be
point, against
of
out
who
one
be
what
will
for
shoes
them
evidently
order
to
up
throw
considerable
some
than
his
rebel,
geons.
sur-
who
oftener
that
he
and
veterinary
sure
Owners
;
among
of
to.
sufficiently
acknowledged,
have
veterinary surgeons
their
generally want
every
lameness,
every
work
could
to
says
the
the
length
of
'
In
but
unjust
inabilityto
They prefer patching up.'
It is not
that
is
removal
does, if he
now
would
the
order
not
he
is,perhaps, not
There
his
everytliinghe
in
here
that
thinks
confessed
already
Mayhew
with
agree
has
writer
other
thinks
and
almost
practitioner
could
"
they
he
would
are
knows
one
deal
in all
say
every
REST.
'
'
matters
one
to
understood,
or
with
of
cases
something
tries
ness.
lame-
tractable
more
to
recommend,
But,
people
knowing,
shirk
;
about
what
if
he
as
they do,
veniently
con-
SANDCRACK,
what
practice)
'
'
or
perhaps,
repeated
of
bottle
keeps
him
'
of
show
delight,'the
applied
he
is
'
the
to
these
treated,
often
Sandcrack
be
'
also
toe, and
to
the
'
shortened,
has
fancy
passed
over
cause
it
as
:
Mr.
origin was
by
is
is
hasty
result
groom,
for
to
keep
self
one-
will
They
toe
the
at
off.
rounded
much
far
searchers
be
H
diseases.
of
'
is
so
all
'
toe
or
seedy
succumb
be
time
same
Mayhew
says
thought about,
racked
not
improperly
or
; and
to
account
off, and
for
The
states, produces
to
be
to
make
not
shape
"
often
the
of
meant
serious
radically shoeing.
Douglas
foot
been
This
advisable
more
the
in
somewhat
been
The
origin.'
has
toe
horse.
the
to
be
foot.
or
thus
sides.
if the
cure
seedy
rather
frequent
a
pumice
water
ivell
kept
that
crack, is
plainly
still
either
this
and
speaks
neglected,
causes
it
is
both
on
that
won't, by itself,
and
straight,'
hoof, when
Brittle
quarter
'
be
to
ignorant especially
It may
things
it
the
or
"
misunderstood
*
which
'
have
know
the
for
Mayhew
ignorant
order
to
subjection;
rest
master.
of
kinds
they
in
When
in
men
gentle-
applied, with,
will
they
after ; but
owner
mostly
be
to
97
interims, they give the
and
are
mastery
expedient
because
oils,'
hoof.
brittle
cure
'
they
these
that
contented
is what
explain,
blisters
they, justifiably,obtain
rest
FOOT.
it
and, during the
;
a
'
intimation
an
groom
to
find
sweating
PUMICE
TOE,
attempted
(in
mild
'
have
I
SEEDY
accounted
so
some
same
sandcrack.
for
and
for
its
it
got
distant
cause,
mice
Pu-
through
98
HORSES
the
brittle crust
the
sole, which
the
same
should
and
the
of
of
be
which
the
forced
are
sole, the horse
destroyed
at
as
form
the
coffin
bone
terior,
inin
follow
it to
becomes
of
general
past
rather, finish
or,
"
the
allow
to
and,
;
of
they
maintain
to
suspension, and
the descent
depressed
laminae, partaking
crust,
its hold
retain
to
becomes
unable
are
due
the
the
of
disorder
unable
being
then
time
ROADS.
AND
cure,
being
murdered.
The
naked
in
that
fact
hoof
the
is
hard
again
remain
in
comes
jiints,the
becomes
escape,
the
crust,
and
allowing
it dries
should
the
diseased.'
as
to
the
The
of
also
that
fact.
holds
in
it is fairly treated
it
as
a
man's
on
a
farm.
is
the
sole
"
inured
the
with
doctors
that
it
be
would
healthy
the
"
out
frog,
hold
perhaps
he
them
not
was
vinced
con-
that
proves
sharp flints,"c.,
to them.
should
he
let
a
were
when
alone
"
labourer
so
hands
they
the
fair treatment
By
be
with
good
withholds
when
and
impression, as
every
shovel, their
find
is
cracks,
colHery districts,where
the
a
which
'
'
it
with
cut
Douglas
if
it
sharp
even
"
Experience
and
meant
In
Mr.
is permitted
more
moisture,
remarks
contempt
hands
work
horny, as
the
or
more
harden
not
same
sole ; but
speaking of
the
hardens
up,
Douglas
frog
contrary, when
highly susceptible to
regard
women
gravel, stones,
the
to
Mr.
whole,
and
the
on
life,to
becomes
crust
the
'
:
firmer, tougher,
while
;
unlike
when
When
with
sharp instrument,
well
by
sound
contact
beneficial
are
substantiated
following passage
to
its
roads
have
many
become
to
cut
HUMAN
THE
down
a
upon
whitlow.
the
ladies
young
all
textures
begets
The
has
experience
and
numbers.
He
upon
of
all
more
writings
silk,woollen
shops have
roads
hard
make
than
a
quarter
of
the
a
stance
sub-
hardness
or
;
cotton
soft hands.
superstitionto
as
may
quotations he
has
of
and
hard
Like
feet
for
contrary.
century
of
practicewith unshod horses in large
has, therefore,no
theory about the
constructed,
the
in
against a
thickness
handle
hard
like ; and
writer
matter,
who
day long
horses, in spite
Friction
this extra
brings about
99
SKIN.
perhaps
be
freelyused
and
scientific,professional,
authorities.
H
2
so
imagined,
from
the
practical
100
CHAPTEK
'
OF
LETTER
THE
SHOE
BRED
roads'
ENGLAND
of
intended
work
It is
also
a
mutilation,
or
lesser;
smiths
the
out,
of
chance
do
to
not
HORSES
as
allow
this
somewhat
AND
OF
HARD
PROGRESS.
render
to
on,
to
as
horse
a
by
a
tip
precautions
the
gives
shoes
the
who
it
or
visable
ad-
were
amount
has
had
by nothing
useful
the
to take
away
'
See
as
may
much
Appendix
on
to
frog,sole, and
recovering
mutilation
then
from
have
fortunately, now-a-days
cut
GO
change.
to
which
as,
small
WOOD
remarks, which
later
either
HORSES
CLIMATE
^
some
given
to
as
prudent
themselves
seems
replaced
making
when
first
be
all,and
OPPOSERS
"
AND
UNSHOD
ON
made
UNSHOD
STONE
DOUGLAS
'
GO
SEELEY
WHERE
MOIST
here
be
to
to
KNOWN
Aberlorna
'
introduce
the full shoe
at
AND
COUNTRIES
OUR
"
MAYHEW
"
to
of
'
THE
TO
BARE
AND
TAN
METROPOLI-
WITH
HORSES
ON
HAS
NORTH
COLD
OF
WRITERS
OSMER
"
letter
only
IN
LLEUT.-COL.
"
'STOPPING,'
"
SHOD
OF
ANCIENT
"
IN
SOUND
The
ARE
BREAKING
STALLS
FOR
SHOEING
CHARACTERISTICS
DIFFERENT
JOURNAL'
GREASING,
COLD
"
HORSES
GRADUAL
"
ARE
SHOEING,
HOOP
TRAMWAY
'FARM
IN
HOT
ON
PARING
'
ABERLORNA
BTJRDETT
XII.
horn
A.
their
been
bars
last
greater
of
some
as
wear
was
the
pre-
102
HORSES
this
As
question
gentleman
be
must
him
to
AND
of
and
;
ROADS.
considerable
if, by
indiscreet
have
his
horse,
he
would
become
disgusted,
and
have
thrown
away
chance
besides,
and,
laugh, which
the
he
of
got
the
he
will
do
then
he
will
not
A
little
a
writes
hack
for
with
only tips, the
heels
grew
could
be
sooner
did
revert
to
The
weeks,
and
the
full
This
that
'
can
the
Church
calibre
To
'
is well
In
an
there
fact
England.
again
'
on
is
was
American
one
that
he
Yet
even
a
the
nothing
; but
thought
his
is
a
has
surgeon
to
to
(!)
passed.
sur-
tion
highest educa-
hot
No
degree.
of
dence
confi-
clergyman
a
this
of
man
delusion.
of
shoeing
revived.
veterinary surgeons
veterinary
so.'
be
hardly
question
'
no
obliged
was
popular
intensely opposed
'
a
The
bare.
breach
no
Aberlorna
that thereon
articles
who
took
affords, and
cold,'which
known
these
cited
also
'
or
the
received
so
7
could
proof against
back
come
rode
once
rider
I
least,
at
"
and
apparent
him,
of
not
was
'
hot
'
I
quite
in than
set
divulging the
in
of
spot
hoped
describe, and
you
horse
gentleman
England
being
as
to
shoe
herein
naivete
one
heels
time
be
a
comparatively dry weather,
expanded
wet
a
such
tender.'
going
'
the
trial, and
next
privately :
in
pleasanter
'
;
of
It is to
the
at
find his horse
gentleman
six
less
stable
turned
idea
mere
to
have
so
whole
have
thing,unpleasantly against him.
that
likely
been
desisted, and
would
at
up
step, he had
benefiting his
farrier
horses, the
pecuniary importance
an
injured
a
of
number
a
owns
has
It
differ.
been
shoeing
practicalhorse-shoer,' the
;
as
author
COLONEL
of
work
a
ON
BURDETT
Scientific
'
on
and
had
own
protection
of
felt
were,
prize
essay
before
Such
of
obtaining
the
do
to
does
so,
they
examiners.
that
the
in
it
thoroughly
because
for his
'
classes
'
coaches
'
is
tell
the
however,
this
on
it
but
;
of
views
that
production
only
that, in
us
engineered
likely
essay.
view
a
with
was
more
conscientious
thing
every-
prize
a
pretended,
not
question
carry
with
coincide
much
is
is
it
written
must
It
essay
principle :
necessarily
not
and
prize ;
a
horses
own
such, purposely quoted.
as
sometimes
are
his
farmer
differentlyinterested
merely
it
essays
order
three
"
who
men
A
'
American
an
shoe
obliged to
103
FOOT.
shoeing,' professing
Horse-
forty years' experience;
who
HORSES
THE
was
a
doctors
differ.
An
written
January last, in
the
Times.'
are
Here
colonel's
gallant
of
the
feet
not
be
is, he
is
acutely.'
to
complex
suffer,
to
'
.
but
ruins
horse
and
foot
;
of
in
of
our
first
horse
a
;
the
.
work
of
it
horse
for,
is
is
cripples,
and
natural
a
intended
so
if he
most
machinery,
assistance,
The
thing
any-
cases
many
siderations
con-
should
animal
work
the
should
for, should
artificial
'
.
piece
the
to
it.'
.
of
either, the
elaborate
often
preserving,
The
from
.
and
;
his
ham
Twicken-
the
of
horse,
appearing,
and
One
description
perfectly adapted
perform
'
is
extracts
driver
with
any
sure
.
of
legs
matter
put
Eichmond
some
or
owner
and
the
be
'
writings :
an
the
on
Burdett,
Lieutenant-Colonel
by
since
be
practical essay
independent,
far
most
and
to
from
frequently totally
sole
of
a
horse's
104
foot is almost
that
it
In
not
and
cut
in the
in the
habit
making
what
were
thiu
so
to
they
over
go
had
sole
loose, rough parts taken
the
the
of
sole
It is
the
from
the
taught
him
differ
has
of
either
are
frog
should
and
We
then
hoof
shoe
until
the
it
the
is
is
liable
introduced
are
shoe.
the
foot,
There
and
for
the
of
that
to
taneously,
spon-
process
knife.
writer
certain
a
they
:
exfoliation,
the
from
it to
'
:
level,
burn
away
The
and
the
correspond, thereby
of
to
sumptuous
pre-
experience
he touched
estimable
upon
(?)crust
outer
tected.'
pro-
loose, rough flakes,
help
surfaces
the
obliged
that
process
to
;
thought
be
state
"
tender
been
feel himself
never
this
placed
have
will
these
pared
two
brittle,and
the
hoof.
hoof
hot
a
heating
nails
the
of
crust
was
drawing knife,
would
to
any
cite
again
must
the
complete
without
and
an
horse
"
left
natural
left to
be
the
with
to
even
the
leave
almost
intact, and
sole, should
going through
and
been
colonel, and
or
foot,"
go
writer
that
sole,
road, either gravel
disagreeable,and
for
say
natural
clean
a
when
foot
all
to
naturally
off
horse's
the
"
made
would
from
glad
am
could
new
strong
formerly) farriers
as
called
and
sole
I
away
thumb
a
he
if the
whereas
time
Consequently,
macadam,
or
(though
paring
the
hard
so
sensible
or
present
of
that
impression.
required
inner
instances
many
much
so
and
impenetrable,
protects the
harm.
ROADS.
AND
HOESES
the
hoof
break
away,
purpose
of
and
ing
render-
when
the
holding
on
is another
that
is
thing most injurious to
of the
blacking the outside
Generally speaking, grease
and
lampblack
are
'SEELEY'
THE
used
give
to
if broken
it
hoof
that,
of
Instead
the
soon
as
the
chance
the
dust, which
with
circulation
of
well-being
porous
air
is
stopped,
there
is
These
a
months
that
North
a
of
the
of
horses
A.
easing
the
shoe
and, being without
on
the
is about
in
of
ninepence,
Seeley Company
to
towns
cost
of
the
horseshoe
than
been
half the
three-quarter
when
shoe
cold,
calks, the
allowed
shoeing
instead
of
to
frog, or
rest
firmly
under
the
new
a
shilling,
one
horse.'
per
The
The
and, with
;
on
of
stud
States, has
or
foot, is
The
less
they
since
patent
fastened
clips
the
adopted by
United
It is
We
'
:
travelling
new
"
"
horse's
ground.
system
week
the
of
centre
'
tioned,
men-
stated
animals
laborious
Charlier
weight' (The
weighs five ounces).
and
1880.
31,
horses.
weighs l^lb,,or
usual
and
been
2,000
the
of
Seeley,
This
tried.
17
own
over
of
disease.'
paper
Company
stony roads, the
over
3Ir.
has
their
numbers
the
from
Tramways
keep
to
view
naturally
circulation
contemporary
horseshoe
Metropolitan
company
a
to
naturally injured,
January
since
new
commenced
the
is
the
all
necessary
hoof
grease
taken
are
in its issues
hear
so
to
it is
stops
great probability of engendering
quotations
Some
is
The
foot
the
and
minutes
it, and
to
out,
adhering
ten
air, which
with
if coated
and
;
brought
not
less than
foot.
appearance.
is
are
adheres
of
the
of
clean
horse
stall
(generallythe case),in
covered
of
the
as
from
straws
and
smart
a
105
shoe.
tramway
and
England
as
other
to
refer
now
companies
their
success
their
in
in the
in
spectus
prochief
working
106
HORSES
with
horses
nearly
each
employ
at
But
doctors
one,
certainly
stand
at
nails
hold
brittle
them
using
if
for
they kept
where
cold
for
'
in their
keep
hot, is forged
The
of the
with
the
iron
hot
bottom
that
foot to
the
to
has
to
of
takes
the
is the
only
done
to
crust
'
when
rendered
been
that
looks
In
as
Spain,
wide
forges very
necessity
any
shoe, whilst
The
and
the
foot
to
cold
and
it down
surface
the
is of the
latter
the
flatsurface
burning
of
of
shape
fit the
fittingthe
not, hot
it is
the
out.
paring
the
;
now
well.
than
longer
and
When
pattern.
the
respect
and
wear
size
they
;
have
shoe.'
correct
hot
every
been
entails
the
shoe,
be
they
means
no
to
not
years,
until
on
paring
cold
a
has
tramways
two
statement
substantiated
places pretty
fittingby
fittingthe
foot.
that
shoe.
the
The
all in this
at
lost
ing
lead-
yet
of
use
shoeing is universal, and
apart, shoes
Cold
nearly
companies
lost
be
The
by scorching.
these
and
be
opinions utterly
are
not
in horn
better
to
differed.
shoes
could
is not
;
the
on
have
disadvantage
no
horses
other
always
fifty cold-fitted
of
pronounced
each
that
It
score
of
have
with
variance
a
thousands
authorities
ROADS.
shoe.
cold-fitted
a
that
of
sight
AND
on
'
shoe
correct
fittingstand
just equal.
Another
gaining
that
every
objection
such
the
one
knows
although
it is
the
amount
great
close
very
horse
to
thus
often
that
not
fancied
advantage
of
apposition by burning in, is
gets shod
this is
every
of
the
one
misery
tightly,and
too
injuriousto
that
and
is
the animal
fully alive
disorder
;
to
it entails.
COLD
'
Aberlorna
'
hot
from
result
ever
of
nature
such
his
able
being
was,
not
broken
to
down
when
the
the
the
idea
only tips,
he
had
he
was
after
home
a
his
of
the
at
with
roads
way
in
from
quite surprised that
'
on
laughed
he
by
but
ignorant
so
man
on
go
done
miles
forge,ten
a
ill effects
no
anywhere
be
a
is
afterwards,
and
believes
foot,that
horse's
a
he
should
residence, there
own
'
shoeing, except
who
ignorant men,
shoeing forge.' In
of
that,
says
107
SHOEING.
shod.'
shoeing
Cold
There
is
gradually gaining
one
the writer
is unable
to comment
to
meaning
in the
are
see
any
caused
their
and
them,
correspond,
to
The
'
groovey
calks
is
a
surface, as
The
being
made
altered
in
to
be
character
Professor
chief
of
shape
there
between
up
There
may,
this
under
concealed
language
the
from
of
given
was
is
essay
of
a
to
very
or
so
the
that
cold.
It
applied cold;
is between
and
it and
ground
first to
the
cate.
advo-
is that
possesses
ductile
tvhilst
the
on
was
it
been
shoe, without
bevelled
Coleman
has
mention
which
advantage
iron
surfaces
two
easy.'
plain, light,machine-made
ahvays
difference
'
otherwise.
clips, seated
or
is set
'
he fails
disguise his thoughts.'
Seeley shoe,
The
made,
to
given
extract
'
friction
that
told
him
enable
to
man
that
argument
that
extract
assertion
so
condemn
because
upon,
separation not
perhaps, be some
are
verbosity. We
said
the
in
passage
with
in favour
which
spite of prize essays
in
practicalmen
it.
is
shoe
of
be
can
is, in fact, meant
this
any
is
the
only
ordinary light
108
HORSES
made
shoe
'
not
'
patent
a
the
At
reducing
do
away
with
intend,
not
to
apprehension
much
so
cause
eternal
opposition and
much
the
over
'
traces
him,
in
the
on
such
has
he
when
to
horses
the
of
such
to make
the
to
the
handsome
a
owner
an
'
or
this
kicking
carter, especially
half
'
so
nor
held
inducement
as
bill,'which
blacksmith's
the
incite
to
grumbling,
part
of success,
case
allow
of proceeding will
gradual mode
keep on at their work ; and it will
A
abrupt change.
to
^
feet ; neither
reasons,
animals
'
to
sufficiently
their
on
for many
hard-worked
of such
allow
is
It
Watch
backward
horses
farm
all iron
Will
*
as
too
are
of
work
once
writer
owners
March,
operations
the
at
the
did
of
beginning
of
principle.
shoe.
farming
says,
Coleman's
professor
on
ROADS.
AND
the
saving
gentleman
so
out
in the
spiritedly
ofifers him.
do
not,
these
that
'
that
he
has
he
shoes
finds
been
who
the
be
'
Yet
'
go
about
difficulty
Aberlorna
carry
suggested, a
there
is another
'
appears
*
the
See
to
out
by
In
B.
also
some
what
be
found
thing. However,
Charlier
have
;
union
might
the
written
system
mill.
road
Appendix
out
his
man
into
pointed
and
disciple,'
this
beautifully on
to bring grist to
could
the
has
ardent
an
one
about
much
gentleman
'
of
letter,farriers
already been
one
willingto
insurmountable,
which
this has
farmers
before
would
where
it
know
to
care
made
places where
has
*
articles.
he
that
rule,
shoe,' and
Charlier
in
a
as
in his
he remarks
Unfortunately, as
out
system
of the
alreadyhit
is
wood,
upon,
110
HORSES
Impecuniosus,'
'
day
is
the
two
or
heels
of
let out
is well
It
be
would
will
that
they
feel
a
slow
'
to
go
for
his
of
strange
he
considers
horses,
month
he
the
derived
have
can
To
facilitate
the
liftingup
floor,if
piece
of
of
whilst
one
When
it is the
up, because
the
weight
that
is
on
there
is
end
of
a
apparently
the
treatment,
that
suppose
the
(and
this
the
and
shape
exact
two
has
avoid
been
pared
outKne
the
foot
the
on
enough,
horse
is held
can
be
on
the
a
Moid
same
cannot
traced
so
if he
the
else
or
is made
up
to
by
foot
that
side
should
same
or
difficulty,
obliged
side
time
to
stand
to
the
about
do
his
bear
so
be
held
be
to
a
on
groom.
a
has
easilyshift
is
three
or
fine,sharp nail,either
smooth
size.
to
so
iron
They
cold.
applied
the
of
much
the
at
form,
outline
on
The
toe
fore-feet
legs
in his stable.
the
which
horse
upon
flat,weak,
would
be
the
on
a
be
it
with
to
cooling
proper
being
two
to
crust
his
fore
that
hot
on
traced, the
foot
of course,
with
board
their
case.
and
should
it
This
other
from
him
foot
easily scratched
a
therefore
;
the
horse
expedite
into
for
experiment
find
and
the
times), after
and
rasped
having
with
stoutest
lead
the
be
whilst
made
be
first
and
benefit
most
tips should,
The
tips.
one
would
although theory might
contrary would
wear
to
say
weak-footed
the
that
go
sure
hoofs,
the
as
that
possibilityis
'
short
'
'
and
man
a
tender, shelly,brittle
what
on
begs
vice.
ad\d sable
two
or
one
all horses
first time
they
because
thoroughly practicalman,
a
that
observe
to
us
ROADS.
AND
;
not
required, in
ORDINARY
THE
running
to
wondered
be
worth
There
there
is
with
things
found
second
the
on
people might
whole
be
great
amount
as
they
they
but
of
the
flurryhimself
is advised
lose
little
time
that
change
in
There
attentive
themselves.
full shoe.
it,but,
over
not
to
rush
no
or
at
is
one
readers
of
his
have
minds,
pecially
es-
moment
did, although
'
funk,' for
so
animals,
them
so
hurry
to
contrary,
surround
who
kindlier
the
on
front
some
any
is incited
one
the
their
on
things. By
at
work
all those
a
No
feet
never
they please (as the clergyman cited
the
without
slightestcause,
except
doing),to
hind
getting through
always revert,
can
be
first
manner
would
anxiety
upon
the
third
in
and
could
so
the
this
In
months
six
stable,
or
on
if
weeks.
and
the
on
;
time,
experimented
tips
discarded.
be
tips might
their
shoeing
pense
dis-
to
date;
some
couple
the
off
in
farrier
a
in
treatment,
same
leave
might
tried
thus
well, another
the
that
are
owner
future
some
feelings for
two
or
the
endeavouring
discover
his
horse
do
to
at
will
spared
through
put
any
he
the
Should
be
services
well
have
of
they
inform
necessity to
no
but
are
much
is not
by
upon
intention
an
his
go
will
you
is
horses
some
minutise,
are
insisted
being
well-trimmed
a
forge,which
a
These
at.
while
person.
that
fidgety in
be
to
half of
fidgety horses,and
hoof, except with
inclined
the front
round
nail
a
Ill
TIP.
every
the
will
one
he will
doing
at
or
same
take
the
manner.
observation
will
have
Although
the
to
be
made,
already thought
foot
will
have
which
out
for
greatly
112
benefited
all round
have
not
both
of want
account
have
made
of
in
the
bear
it
upon
which
Nature
On
the
be
may
the
driving
in
may
It is not
necessary
points of
the
down,
hoof
the
which
a
week
or
The
he
this
he
so,
find
out
them,
which
is
strain
on
the
on
toe
the
his
mainder
re-
to
foot,
bear.
to
avoided
be
by
thrown
of
off
to
but
he
he
instinct
horses
dig
his
be
will
also
'
the
on
edge
a
rasp,
It is best
slightly
done,
once
is necessary.
it will
goes
low
out
with
this is
trimming
has
;
When
horn.
aside, the
unshod
not
light tip. The
brought
be
toe
grow
the
into
a
rounded
edges.
as
holes
nail
on
the
on
nearly all chipping.
unshod
by
than
horn
the
to hold
is
hoofs
load
habit, because,
has
seen,
not
straightup
well
horse
a
the
measure
iron
further
gradually gets
will
until
with
the
start
to
away
be
no
lation
circu-
thickest,strongest,
generally
their
on
shod
ground
tips
can
must
off
rounded
the
to do
the
keep
to
be
to
of all.
so
will do away
always
it the
great
nails
when
and
freer
lifts
made
far and
nails
horse
parts have
chip
to
the
other
discarding
found
This
out.
has
growing
first
will
as
found
be
the
having
leverage is brought
a
time
every
therefore
fastest
and
toe,
parts,
from
will
it
will
toe
other
and
through
crust, and
leverage
the
as
slanting position
more
a
of
still
;
The
blood, "c.
its fibres
benefit
improvement
an
tips,the
of attrition
nails
pierced by
of
use
much
as
ROADS.
the
by
received
on
been
of
AND
HORSES
toes
that
found
gradually
feeHng
natural
the
into
way
his
of
as
lose
feet,'
using
fiat,and then the leverage and
will be lessened, and the chipping
the
GRASS-COVERED
will
away
facts,although they
'
of those
one
any
also
be
thereby
'
much
to
know
up
fancied
helped
and
a
There
which
horses
their
great
abundance
The
States, the savannahs
of
Eepublic
instances
mentioned,
be
4.S. to
'
are
fine
bought
jfchose upon
whose
well-known
the
backs
skilful
'
of
feats
low
of
Anglo-American
to
4Z.,and
horses, which
These
20s.'
of
runs
grass
of the
such.
three
\l, to
from
at
of grass-
there
and
Uruguay
colts,from
theory have
tracts
are
of
jure
con-
extensivelybred,
are
of the
some
nervous
legs to their
people find to
and
Eussia, the
of
steppes
so
people
and
possessingvast
Australia, the prairiesof
can
for
Some
feet
which
from
value.
useful
Fancy
plains,on
'
Impecuniosus
the
countries
are
in
in the
written
generalityof
unsatisfactoryone.
very
covered
found
horses'
our
'
These
mentioned
are
in mind.
keep
present state, which
be
that
difficulties.
bring
to
found
which
be
deprecates,may
men
be
prize essays
follow-my-leader style
113
ROADS.
greatly reduced.
not
may
SOFT
AND
COUNTRIES,
In
five
mares
the
years
at
unshod,
are
Grauchos
tine
Argen-
'
perform
last-
old,
from
are
their
'
lassoing,'"c., when
horse
being endowed
cattle-driving the unshod
of foot that renders
with
an
activity and sureness
him
highly valuable for their purposes.
A
gentleman writing in a contemporary, on the
In
Australia, in
subject of cattle-driving,says :
"
'
wet
a
weather,
safe
unshod
an
Many
mount.
cattle
on
above
and
a
horse
shod
hard
roll
a
horse, when
below
'
"
as
some
I
is both
over
the
a
pleasant and
I have
country
English
had
was
race-courses
after
soft
114
HORSES
and
ROADS.
hunting
countries
often
occurred
with
barefooted
have
almost
These
on
AND
which
a
well
forced
to
known
facts
of
over
soft, smooth
having
horn
up
all
ought
"
not
economy
the
extended
Miles
although
tasks.'
allotted
why
these
horses
do
hoof
that
horses
elsewhere,
circumstances,
the
to
North,
law
of
to
animal
structures
that
is
in
performing
explained the reason
and
the
hardness
under
work,
Central,
have
be
found
in
that
have
such
grounds being
other, the
and
we
unable
was
reparation
acquire
harder
been
chapters, pastures
these
is
not
with
which
countries
not
Herein
what
"
of
different
only acquire
not
maintain.
also
In
he
us
the
keep
to
tells
efficient
their
but
what
unemployed
to
the
afford
parts constantly engaged
to
from
not
even
they
then
invariable
an
of
measure
same
barously
bar-
only, and
attrition'
Mr.
continue
to
does
needful
*^it is
fully
it
grasp
that
grass
know,
to
often
are
footsore
intervals
at
work.
its
to
the
are
continuously,
they
become
to
'the
calls
Mayhew
sected
inter-
not
are
long distances, when
work
to
not
plains,
neither
;
worked
that
cover
doubly exposed
are
roads
fed,
grass
would
soft,smooth
perpetually stand,
are
it is
although
which
animal.'
by hard, rough, stony
horses, which
"
immeasurable,
horses
the
'
are
of far
just
such
value.
American
mentioned
in
and
breeding grounds are
large tracts, as in those
spoken
widely
consequence
South
formerly
been
now
higher
and
separated
is that
The
of.
horses
Besides,
from
are
each
scarcer
geologicalcharacter
COUNTRIES,
ROCKY
these
the
where
is
stone
small
rainy
In
season.
rains
in
day
every
either, and
without
'
the
is of the
hardest.
which
cwt., and
in
also.
of the
country
roads
will pass
travel
sheets
of the
and,
at
which
as
Mr.
miles,
have
to
their
work
down
from
There
the
over
with
is not
whole
nearly
the
all the
over
driver
commerce
a
horseshoe
route, and
a
thousand
a
similar
imports,
they brought
been to Europe
on
horses
quantity
sometimes
the
down
or
of
bales
two
carry
that
has
tage
advan-
pack-saddle, "c.,
on.
loaded
Douglas
contracted
bring
of
they
as
evident
Yet
in which
times
crop
cotton
before,but
rock,
the
to
daily, descending, and
same
of
suffer from
with
obtained
returning, inland,
to
to
of them
is carried
nail to be
some
have
;
is the way
parts they
horses
fording rivers
This
across
in other
ones
hundreds
weigh
it
countries
wet
The
Many
interior, many
cotton,
these
sandcracks, "c.'
corns,
the
and
naked
over
roads
months,
hoofs,they never
from
feet, or
a
six
parts,
trying during
and
year,
and
difficulty,
of their
or
and
present themselves
turn
says,
3
outside
the
loose,
parts of
some
get dry roads during
during the other six.
the
and
excessively heavy
become
in
hard, rough,
that
ground very largely predominates
breeding grounds ; although in some
stony
over
such
115
ROADS.
ROUGH
HARD,
is also
countries
these
of
AND
the
year
States
get manufactured.
In these
or
site
'
'
pen
for
paved
countries
their
the
with
the
natives,when
horses, always
purpose.
stone
if
Where
look
2
out
for
*
corral
where
'
hard
a
stabling exists
obtainable, and
1
they
it is
timber
116
is
HORSES
a
the
procured
be
can
bad
who
far and
wrote
the
most
complete
day,
makes
the
on
explicit as
harden
this
for
which,
he
horse's
feet
made
hard
as
of
found
have
was
the
Osmer,
as
if
he
day^
The
floor
of
but
of
horse's
feet
the
as
practice is
parts
of the
rocky ground,
found
world
horses
it
it
a
of
these
described
be
hard,
to
on
with
his
him.
in
wanting
was
;
expensive
and
through.
century
to this
are
both
about
to be
all
than
writings,
horse
a
having
their
should
it
but
outset
more
or
of
of the
without
manner
carry
ingenious,
the
interior
that
that
him
made
writing
the
authorities
standing place
unsatisfactoryfrom
most
hoofs
soft wood,
question,
precisely
in
the
theory
and
of
acknowledging
nailed
many
a
it,while
:
the
themselves
for
out
we^
feet, and
In
improve
upon
*
make
to
pavement,
every
says
of
taken
and
his
to
made
in
of these
either
flooringsact
*
stone
standing
will
countries
logic ;
bare
natives
untutored
whilst
recommends
stony roads
be
not
oak, which
American
have
He
writer, Vegetius,
should
ticularly
par-
hoofs.
result
on
is
rock.'
The
heard
travel
to
stable
hard
his
of
be
cool, harden,
will
benefit
same
solid
The
as
work
to
purpose
merely by
he
hand,
means
horses'
will
'
says,
Another
have
wide
mention
no
other
the
to
toughen
and
specially
the
neither
is known
his
while,
horseshoes;
tvere
where
;
stable
of
horsemanship
the
instead
one.
Xenophon,
on
EOADS.
this is used
available
more
AND
ago,
day, even
accustomed
says
on
to
the
carry
:
118
HORSES
wondrous
these
whilst
the
the
The
the
writer
main
side
slide
or
the
and
their
that
saying
officially
Those
gain
to
is
'
any
defend
attempted
he
keep
to
scale
defenders
out
allow
help
can
is
is
They
tradict
con-
interfere
to
with
credited
anything
beHeved
the
nothing
it.
likely
Bismarck
of
both
over
and
that
never
to
until
it
was
contradicted.'
who
breach
it
either
derive,
shoeing
from
make
they
Prince
gains.
look
summit,
statement
every
with
if
either
by
pass
wall's
these
that
sharp
a
contrives
so,
doors.'
opinion
keep
gate
doors
of
is
;
manage
truth
side
by
numerous
progress
the
in
doors
side
of
closed,
gate
walls,
its
opposers
main
to
and
ones,
ROADS.
AND
to
cannot
in
their
upon
this
utmost
it.
directly
be
wall,
or
expected
but,
every
on
time
indirectly,
to
the
help
contrary,
any
assault
to
119
CHAPTER
*
ABERLOPvXA's
'. SECOND
HORSE
SECOND
IX
OF
GROWTH
SHOD
"
HORN
GO
ONES
IN
OF
HORSESHOES
THE
ABOUT
ON
This
the
In
his
over
the
of
LIGHT
to
WORST
OF
THE
'
ON
THE
OF
DEFENSIBILIT
IN-
THE
IN
USE
WORKING
COMPLAINTS
STOPPAGE
IN
'
Aberlorna
'
is
OF
WHICH
TRAFFIC
SLIPPING
these
interest
somewhat
severe,
in
similar
has
that
obtained
he
treatment,
three-quarter shoe, with
*
See
ing.^
interest-
chapters
the
be
it may
His
detail.
trial must
fortnight he
is most
evidentlythinking things
than
common
rather
the
result
horse
ENGLAND
LANCET
AND
*
set
when
thinking,' especially
people
IN
THE
VERY
NEWSPAPER
"
FALSE
faster
letter
although
within
THE
"
THE
GENTLEMEN
HORSES,
gentleman
for himself
him.
OF
letter
second
out
ENGLAND
HORSES
LIGHT,
TWO
OF
AT.
LOOKED
The
OF
IN
HILL
THE
"
HIS
"
WHILST
OF
PHYSIOLOGICAL
SLIPPING
LUDGATE
IS
A
HORSES
UNSHOD
'
FOOT
UNSHOD
ROADS,
PEOPLE
TIPS
EXIJBERA:jfCE
IN
THOSE
HIS
"
ON
THE
GOOD
OF
SUCCESS
"
OF
OYER
HORSE's
A
OF
JOTTRXAL
PrTTIXG
"
OVER
SOUND
FARM
TOUGHNESS,
IGNORANCE
"
NATURE
ITS
LAME
GO
DESCRIPTION
TIPS
AMERICA
AND
'
*
IN"
WITH
SOUTH
HORSES
UNSHOD
LETTER
SHOD
EXPERIEXCE
XIII.
been
go
successful,
good
see
many
that
subjected another
intention
C.
to
encouraged by
only using
Appendix
carry
well
they
so
has
a
can
this
of
time
a
reducing
120
HORSES
tip later
it to
a
that
at
the
care
of
himself
of
put
second
shoeing ;
his
and
with
shod.'
The
and
it to
bring
is able
stands
take
to
in
need
no
'
for
to
as
their
accompany
the
could
of
course,
it
for
and
driving
a
so
the
operator
point
to
slightbulging out,
appear
to
him
come
which
to
.
a
drive, in
finger
be
point
it
view
inner
will
be
the
out
the
in the
;
nail
in
tried
chief
the
it will
but
;
is
what
on
of
by
giving
slight degree,
a
no
or
modification
a
the
over
has
manufactory
only, which
pricking
he
is
the
of
kind
side
to
nail, the
nails
from
come
inside, with
avoid
a
the
always give
one
the
feeling, with
wishes
on
inclination
an
of
would
carter
any
farrier,if
a
as
certain
a
farriers
hammering
intended
they
as
that
seen
well
as
pointing
Nails
thing.
nail
it
The
earnest.
have,
do
forge, and
shoe
a
that
to
themselves
the
of
on
it,and
to
would
shoeing, they
nailing
attached
great mystery
groom
the
be
feared
interest
of
mile
to
he
:
not
to
the
obligation to
he
horses
process
distinctlythat
see
had
to
save
away
remark
would
owners
horse
this
made
able
twenty
a
great
himself
it
If
their
be
to
thus
case,
under
is
made
carefullywatch
his
send
to
having
ought
the
by
unnecessary
practice,and
(and, in
writer
already
far
person
'
it scouted.
see
any
having
of
'
Aberlorna
have
become
little
very
trouble
and
journey)
not
will
he
but
horse,
will
tips,which
on
time
be
likely he
Most
on.
shoeing
Hot
of
use
so
ROADS.
advice.
'
'
AND
where
should
carries
wards,
out-
to be
remarked
and,
the
Whilst
crust.
place,
is
before
i-ightplace,
he
he
the
it,
will
QUALITIES
the
draw
will
nail
and
done
be
the
be
nail
the
that
the
at
and
press
parts, although the point
when
the
be
going
in
the
The
to
the
of
nails
recommended
for
come
nails
seem
to
from
the
the
among
When
these
once
a
or
groom
farrier ?
They
class, and
Mr.
the
down
We
in
South
on
America,
unshod
that
'
are
mark
had
which
'
"
chisel
and
in the
great
he
it
to
to
To
be
that
means
and
render
us
should
greiv
the
cut
with
toes
'
"
heavy
army.
travelled
has
of miles
the
states
only,
toes
difficultywith
have
interestingto
the
throw
fast,''He
'
a
same
tailors
in the
some
people who
the
from
hundreds
'
feet
easily as
as
that
ridden
not
learn
his
had
from
a
him
consisted
only difficulty
toughness
a
which
ones,
why
and
;
Aberlorna
'
has
done
might
density
as
and
was
also
fancied
horseshoes
on
that
mallet.'
experience
whether
tells
nail
often
are
seized, the
them
learn
horses,whose
he
injury.
poorest.
Douglas
to
out
Belgium
From
minutiae
discover
next
much
generally spring
needle
moment
open
may
English-made
carter
a
the
general good quality
is practicallyvanquished
difficulty
not
sensitive
Seeley Company
scaliness.
superior to
be
their
the
cause
of the
cause
gets introduced,
scale
driving, and
machine-made
freedom
the
weaken
may
at
may,
them
will
upon
shank
right; also,
course
be
and
all
of
part
scale
this
is partially
upon
exists,and
inner
weak
which
scales
the
it
frequently
shoe
have
part where
bend
and
the
of
rejected, because
bulge in, or
it to
face
Nails
121
HORSE-NAILS.
point another,
on
fixed.
should
OF
of
mallet
the
horn
necessary
being
to
so
drive
122
HORSES
chisel
the
other
through
because
or
whether
it,
people
some
in
annoyance
ROADS.
cutting
the
rasping
the
be
in
kept
others
fly to
toe
good form,
'
twice
of
that
as
not
of.'
it
the
if
ills
week
then
and
tion;
opera-
those
know
a
any-
that
great
as
bear
to
they
or
once
is
was
the
to
say
may
toe
shoeing, they prefer rather
have, than
there
difficultyattached
or
annoyance
AND
they
By
always
may
be
cutting would
no
required.
a
'
Aberlorna
'
lines
cannot
which
his
more
to
say
how
known
happily
of useful
large amount
five
has
occupies ;
real
the
compress
the
into
observation
letter
to
twenty-
people
some
point
in
as
many
columns.
The
the
about
not
seeing
these
and
observed,
shod.
pretty
that
horses
generally,
(country ?)
full
of
in the
it
horseshoes
fashion
by Europeans,
into
lame, whilst
the
over
unshod
roads.
worse
*
Truth
is
have
were
fact
a
been
the
where
horses
sound
is
I
some
they
and
went
ones
the
in
in
and
really
shod
does
for the
were
would
smoother,
be
would
he
always,
Anyhow
miles.
towns, where
surface
journeys
if not
rough stones,
for
'
went
except
roads
rough going.' So, then,
brought
road
is that
open,
The
places causewayed
who
gentleman,
lame
any
were
part sand,
most
his eyes
with
world
remember
towns,
of this
statement
next
went
long
on
stranger than
fiction.'
Another
probably
whether
thing
be
by
glad
to
which
hear
'
'
causeways
are
many
this
from
to
readers
be
would
gentleman
understood
is,
roads
EXPERIENCE
IN
that
are
like
London
where
ENGLAND
pitched,'or
'
would
impassable
exist
the
to
'
what
and
alone.'
so
it
think
of
who
stuck
shoe
nailing a
the
As
Take
the
of
horses
to
leg
for
be
led
foot of
it
them,
only way.' Exactly
so
the
the
thing
Some
of horn
of
purpose
gate
investi-
to
you
horse.
talking
thick
no
;
let
you.
the
follow
it is
thin;
and
could
one
them.
to
them
make
and
shod,
are
lump
a
by
useless
is
they
from
seen
be
must
putting
as
through
directions
your
the
to, will
for
only
his
of
farriers,
to
do
idea
no
always
if
better
foot
end
on
have
method
much
so
horse's
nature
your
out
comes
a
roads
have
to
seem
they always
the
alter
the
to
on
'
places, such
Thanks, 'Aberlorna,'
plainly;
parts
wise
other-
become
season
They
is.
think
will
never
in
roughly,
certain
country
foot
and
stone, somewhat
more
rainy
123
HORSE.
personal knowledge.
this
in
shod,
in
as,
horse's
a
horses
;
writer's
People
the
in
UNSHOD
with
paved
streets, only
they
AN
OF
better
give
advice.
In
November,
to
doing
without
the
month's
a
mile
them
or
rest
two
hoof
it
was
had
The
them
grass,
the
on
high
worn
road
at
down
and
below
to
of
drive
his hoofs
were
doubtful.
kept chipping
the
try
him
gave
occasional
first,seemed
shell, and
of
pony's shoes
my
while
a
horseshoes
resolved
I
when
an
in
wrote
convenience
removed,
with
result,
thin
the
and
great, that
so
had
against
argument
Accordingly,
at
a
correspondent
a
strong,
so
out, I
hardening.
until
"
me
worn
a
The
:
experiment.
were
The
'
contemporary
seemed
1878,
holes
away,
of
the
124
HORSES
nails
which
by
this, the
what
full
hoof
it had
work,
in
are
; and
gain,
without
them
long
he
as
That
it
heart
His
the
known
the
still look
'
people
time
same
farmer
wrote
running
:
*
"
I
to
the
he
time
the
reach
does
not
tell
know
;
neighbours found
profit by his example.
the
conjecture
It
is
as
might
the
of
was
possible
even
city.
eccentri-
an
still for
stand
passing, a
shorthorns
brood
for
that
contrary.
this
a
had
month,
to
this
article
same
interesting to
world
that
barefooted
as
go
"
never
proceeding
care
had
to
had
horn
not.'
breeder
and
he
that
for
saw
his
upon
with
his
to
room
is life ; the
some
the
enough
but
that
hard
'
of
eyes,
did
1879
this
of
thing
one
leaves
He
continue
first
any
Such
At
proof
is, whether
brains
year.
ever
August,
copy
been
had
all that
in
have
silence
they
will
"
a
thick,'
is
had
present
would
and
they
'
There
which
but
and
been
send
after
old, and
possession.'
after
is
The
the
he
clear
a
it.
years
than
the
of
hands
five
he
in my
difficulties
ground.
footed
sure-
his hoofs
; and
rough
shoes
shoes
should
for
to
without
eight months
needed
and
up
provincialpaper,
a
any
'
shod
remains
gentleman
us,
four
without
and
;
the
more
change altogether has been
anything to set off against
better
goes
is
He
to
pony
the
regularly
now
put the
now
noiseless
from
between
was
been
almost
is
hard, quite unlike
and
I
After
fastened.
been
it well.
stands
danger
no
had
before.
he
and
ROADS.
thick
been
farrier
pony
shoes
grew
his tread
;
to
the
AND
mare
several
in
which
years,
wellberland
Cumhad
when,
126
HORSES
the
that
idea
question
when
of
to
seems
brought
listen
willing to
to
following paragraph
I should
animals,
the
to
'
"
Whilst
the
upon
is
often
and
slippery surface, strain
seriously injure
for the
thing
drag
the
strike
in
that
morning
the
but
little sand
these
over
where
clean
keeping
wood
there
is
in
For
and
the
under
what
London
the
best
they
must
is
so
had
weather
watering
the
ings
beat-
thrown
would
pavements
wood
require
traffic.
be
to
seems
to
seems
gravel
much
the
endeavours
brutal
and
a
to
big
were
The
keep
holders
share-
joint stock horse-slaughteringcompany.'
of this
days preceding the appearance
a
some
paragraph
mon
uncom-
with
never
imagine they
would
filthy.One
and
stopped by
and
fine
or
the
on
no
horse,
it
present object of the authorities
them
be
to
poor
sweat,
him, vainly
;
scene
The
It is
difficulty. Asphalte
the
conquer
a
gets
ments
pave-
The
and
Oaths, kicks,
beast
one
traffic
under
hill.
poor
any
the
the
up
wood
foothold
a
tremble
which
ground slipping from
to
gain
of
attention
horses.
themselves.
whole
heavily-laden waggon,
draw
heartrending.
to
the
subject
greasy
poor
it.
7, has
the
to
found
are
March
more
once
some
on
of the
although,
profitby
of
date
beasts, struggling madly
often
and
suffering which
Hill
Ludgate
:
like
terrible
entail
on
the
weekly, having
A
notice,
argument
side
them;
to
occur
their
to
other
the
fully examining
never
it is
ROADS.
AND
carts
of
be
famous
had
been
been
?
some
at
than
work.
things
circumstances
on
finer
of
the
days
usual,
If, then,
were
thus,
for which
SLIPPERINESS
have
we
heard
often
so
it,that
about
is neither
Hill
Ludgate
have
we
incomplete remedy,
of
inducing
would
'
as
go
road
with
the
of
use
revolving
should
sweeping
have
vanished.
would
be
horse, this
will
the
and
themselves
examine
If
it.
slippery shoes, they
those
material, placed there
the
horse
ice.
the
that
they
The
from
a
of
would
their
large, tough
holding
and
a
the
better
then
toes,
surface
'point
shoes
On
far
and
persuaded
would
do
find
give
because
would
more
people
to turn
under
to
it
for the
so, and
Almighty
smooth
a
really wants
iron
would
slipping on
horses
points
by
of
la medaille.
be
to
the
by
by the
formerly to be
downwards,
is
coin
be
better
end
Unfortunately
pavement.
of the
face
allow
not
de
revers
A
clean
what
bright, smooth,
seen
slippery than
up
is the
looking at
most
sand
carried
were
But
a
reverse.
the
be
carts
is
should
we
on
an
instead
very
roadway
the
it
use,
put down.
worked
Such
its
then
brushes
brushes.
best,
scraped, the
or
for
advance
that
the
does
the
dirt
to advance
the
at
; and
able
verit-
a
necessity
time
was
which
but
is,
same
keep
to
as
Mahomet
not
rest, and
cart, into
seen,
urgent
swept
more
be
refuses
Sand
was
it
regard
an
the
at
until
would
measure
is
cleanliness,
to
were,'
we
to
ratepayers
the
time
Every
the
for
costly one
come
?
mountain
the
towards
long, yet
nor
stereotjrpedcomplaints
should
meeting, why
their
steep
very
these
there
and
INlahomet,
127
HILL.
If this mountain
mountain.
to
LUDGATE
OF
it
efface
them
a
prevent
surfaces, even
on
struggling on
find
they would
over
afford
d^appui,
than
them
would
better
the
128
fractioral
of
part
thrashing,
outrages
to
disappear
cost
a
anyone
have
would
owners
we
It
accidents.
blows
falls
These
river.
wood,
than
the
visit
anyone
small
the
level, shakes
when
they
road
when
them
froide
meeker,
they
a
;
and
horse
be
to
street
would
that
wind
good
a
if
even
slaughterers
allow
second
horse
and
less
principal
than
other
with
themselves
is
horses
to
Chien
even
easily
the
more
scared
meekest
induced
the
being
remain
animals
to
craint
docile
than
of
and
not
than
not
journalists,
echaude
the
its
more
streets,
be
let
slippery
from
the
but
from
more
it,
of
;
up
upon
These
be
streets
stone
generality
must
thoroughfare,
running
injures
time.
the
a
wood.
upon
Horses
unnoticed.
have
liability
must
slipping
and
the
of
not
economised,
streets
paved
and
being
the
being
are
slip
it
:
notice
under
more
ratepayers
horse
that
would
harm.
Hill,
Ludgate
only
diminished
true
any
one
no
the
slacker
business
find
is
both
other
and
people,
not
positively
of
nothing
say
would
but
penny,
swearing,
traffic,
humane
of
this
all
shouting,
of
stoppage
smooth,
bright,
a
the
feeUngs
and
;
of
Then
kicking,
the
ROADS.
inch
an
shoe.
iron
slippery
in
AND
HORSES
enter
Veau
tractable,
dog.
129
CHAPTER
ONLY
HILL
LTJDGA.TE
HU^sDRED
Hill
LuDGATE
all,is only
in
perennial
of
cause
by
surfaces
to
ONLY
EVERY
REQUIRED
to
the
;
horse.
It
it,
at
be
it must
other,
London,
a
is
of
no
in
to
use
proposing
or
the
remain,
fear, disgust,
tackled
then
and
a
of
irrationallyopposing
not
each
and
with
trot
of
in
yards,
it must
heart
complaint,
and
man
there
Yet
in
would
after
inch
an
hundred
two
horses
but,
half
about
efficien
in-
rational
a
slippery
two
would
difficulty
and
well
meaning, but it
eminently practical,people have
into
of
various
protecting
man
legitimate
and
IS"
vanquished.
Humane
else
REIX
about
eternally grumbling
manner
view
FEET
Mountain,
of
omnibus
remedies
not
BEARING
weather.
any
injury
keep
be
FOUR
Moirosi's
thoroughfare
chief
and
is not
unshod
which
full load
a
THE
"
gentle ascent
a
length of
a
foot, over
up
ABOUT
CRIPPLES.
ON
the
RISES
SOCIETIES
"
XIV.
from
corporate
the
horse
injury by
exercise
of
his
philozoic individuals
is to
be
formed
bodies, either
from
the
injury by
horse, when
daily toil.
have
taken
feared
selves
them-
with
the
man,
or
in
the
Philanthropic
the
donkey
130
HORSES
their
under
to
labour
the
under
Irish
of
They
what
do
not
say that
the
that
Ireland
Irish
is
England
have
that
Eico,
whilst
the
could
go
evidently also, the
than
shoeing
In
not
the
with
to do
the
of
(in
about
anvils, forges,and
horses, which
took
unable
depended
work
the
the
and
mustang,
indigenous
to
and
Without
;
with
former, and,
no
need
more
has
nothing
and
subjugation
still goes
America
here
is
"
a
of Mexico.
was
further
dozen
their
proof
semblance,
re-
have
from
few
the
horses
did
their
descends
the
Horses
their
they
would
They
them
unshod.
this
in
he
those
roads)
that
miles
of
could
few
idols
many
from
it,and
of
much
so
carved
performance
Cortes
the
the Aztecs
penetrate
survived
which
In
and
destitute
they worshipped,
to
On
coast.
we
barefooted
Hernan
country
a
iron.
gods,
which
been
and
worse.
Climate
ones.
America,
overawed
for
them
of
question.
invasion
carry
Irish
climate
the
as
English donkeys
the
do
not
(?) demands
Evidently these last
shoes
without
go
so
civilisation
shod.
be
is
could
latitude
same
a
the
out
Ireland,
Spanish island, horses
should
well
as
of
roads
the
is
they
no
in
Here
England
the
for
that
climate, English
they
of
are
Jamaica,
in
same
that
a
from
his favour.
in
that
can,
its
shoes
widen
to
climate
than
moister
testimony
Porto
of
continues
exempt.
intervention
donkeys
no
iron
patrons
humane
from
the
are
for his
he
England
of
curse
their
must
different
in
brethren
fittingopportunity
sphere
ROADS.
protection, yet
his
which
AND
are
first
that
not
duction;
intro-
climate
THE
HORSE
COMPLETE
A
131
ANIMAL.
and
the hoof
localityhave not that influence
over
which
they are vulgarly supposed to have.
It is being continually argued that the horse, as
we
have
him,
his natural
state, but
little reflection
be
not
must
in
should
that it is
looked
being in
artificial one.
Surely a
educated
people to perceive
who
have, by continually
an
lead
ourselves
we
as
upon
strivingagainst Nature, unnecessarily and
him
nursed
sight
into
the
of
expressly
as
undeniable
to
animal.
Simple
become
and
adding to,
made
and
was
domesticated
a
render
not
continual
doctoring,
his
subtracting from,
or
such
as
would
pampering,
created
was
and
man,
captive
Architect
Grreat
too
horse
little,nor
any
horse
has
inadequate
frame
will
has
less
fleet,or
his
head
many
for the
the
should
organs
jaw
him
less
be
which
with
its
of
it
Veterinary Surgery
College,writing, in
structure
of
the
It
the
March
2
tells
"c.
and
year,
us
that
to
; and
Lecturer
Edinburgh
last
horse,
K
of
struction
con-
lodge the
provide leverage
powerful muscles,
at
of
needful
was
size
contains, to
Fearnley, formerly Principal
sapient,
powerful, the
less
certain
a
gall-bladder,
a
economy
the
endm'ing.
peds
quadru-
however
one,
inscrutable
rendered
assign to
Other
and
no
neither
he
did
members.
; but
this
Universe
nor
collar-bones
neither
that
detect
the
of
much,
too
both
possess
the
he
so.
The
can
that
domestication
artificial ; but
the
for
a
him
the
state.
fact
servant
a
destined
do
artificial
an
insanely
People lose
a
that
Mr.
on
Veterinary
treatise
the
head
on
is
132
a
cavities,which
contain
the
bone
being
teeth
The
the
jaw
forms
the
molar
span
is
of
its hollow
extremely light,from
gigantic strength and
of
cavities
as
in
and
sockets,
bony
bones
allow
to
upper
buttresses
substantial
their
and
there
only
are
light as possible,and
as
arch, having
an
'
quite worthless.
otherwise
are
the
strength,that
lightness and
of
model
ROADS.
AND
HOESES
construction.'
The
with
rudder
when
;
amputate
we
the
end
have
had
rendered
able
been
A
it
crusade
is,
the
cruelty
against
the
condone
at
they purchase
thus
wantonly
their
barbarian
to
and
at
They
will
subject
choose
fail
those
who
?
when
to
have
further
go
they
been
another
pay
feet
a
camel
with
of
three
things
There
the
that
is
"
their
either
to
theory,
Which
or
road
compromise.
no
hoof
as
vengeance.
a
world.
the
before
show
horse,
tion
periodicallyto vivisecThese
people are straining
his
of
the
they
and
practice, withdraw
description
scarcely
of
creed
choice
imbeciles
as
vivisection
drive
swallowing
their
they
The
and
who
b}^ people
vivisection
mutilated;
the
Creator
being preached
moment,
of
professed
and
have
abandon
appear
of
vivicremation.
gnat
a
this
practice
when
against
fancy
!
do
to
the
than
beautiful
more
and
animal, they
the
mutilated
thus
it
who
barbarians
us
spinal column,
the
of
have
they
amongst
of
benefit
gets the
racer
have
but
that, when
the
and
a
himself
steer
to
helps
as
serves
purposes,
horse
the
which
speed,
at
such
as
other
tail, amongst
already given
much
care
has
can
been
134
HORSES
Flower,
of
agitated this question
for
him
E.
Mr.
'
:
enthusiasm
seated
the
of
time
has
Wilberforce
advocates
and
happily
succeeded
Even
right.
the
away
in
'
been
make
the
their
the
'
says
and
torture
the
carries
along
'
with
of worry
'
they
and
The
horse
it the
of
But
bearing-rein
them.
soon
would
no
'
they
:
sin
the
; and
a
necessary,
un-
are
evil
continual
owner.
effectually
in
their
ness,
action, activity,smart-
then,
is
they
being
his
to
perhaps,
accounting
no
be
pains
shifting them
about, and
slouching postures at every
relieve
will
right the results
his life
curse
from
detract
speed.
be
thev
of shoes.
purely
shorten
plead
cannot
which, having
that
They
sin;
a
are
expense
clatter; there
demands
better, they
matter
he
is
results
and
and
threw
evil.''
their
animal
was
heavy traffic,and
it.
cannot
horseshoes
of
Fashion
That
purely
are
as
:
the
he
men
slaves, find
in
has
ing
rightlyjudg-
went
of
Managers
discovery
use
favour,
thus
cautious
that
teams,
hardest-worked
same
The
'
horses
and
Flower
Mr.
sporting
gainers by abandoning
which
source
their
in
deep-
by
many
'
fashionable
better.
Mayhew
of
convincing
any
Clarkson
to
suggestions.'
gerated
exag-
great reform
No
effected
been
bearing-rein
of
have
Luther
ever
some
looked
owners
Martin
soft
that, whilst
also
reformed.
that
if
is essential
be
is to
with
time
some
has
Gardens,
Park
Hyde
which
grievance
from
ROADS.
AND
still less
in
his
for taste.
needed
feet, would
putting
moment
'fashion'
himself
in
order
for
a
not
into
to
135
XV.
CHAPTER
'
BRITTLE-HOOF
EXISTING
TKE
SATS
THE
EVER
INTENTED.
we
paying
have
ON
'iS
THE
again
FOOT
'
"
HAYE
'
FEARNLET
COMMON-SENSE
MOST
SHOE
of the
camps
righteous,
touchstone
to that
round
come
'
I3IPECUNI0SFS
HORSE's
ALTOGETHER
visit to various
a
"
TKE
ROOTS
CHARLIER
SATS
FARRIERS
IDEAS
WRONG
FRO^kl
SPRUNG
By
OF
IGNORANCE
"
brittle
'
hoof.'
shod
All
it is
hoof;
disease
only
slipping
digging
in their
hill,are
the
feet, it
will
his
where
they
either
askant,
doing,
he
to
or
a
that
hold
else
the
when
either
load,
down
hill,
of
exertion
or
draw
looking
has
nails
get
it up
their
at
had
into
call
a
places
horn, by driving them
into
only heightening
encounter
loads, by
farrier
to
in the
far up
horses
going
On
the
of
shod
unnatural
start
ingenuity
would
is
other
sufferers.
found
be
upon
to
toes
worst
made
have
that
make
to
when
brittle
extent
Heavily
heavy
back
knuckling-over
or
have
and
instance.
keep
to
the
to
as
from
less
or
more
question
a
given
in any
have
that
suffer
horses
the
both.
it,or
the
By
difficultyhe
next
shoeing
so
will
comes
round.
At
the
risk of
appearing tiresome,
we
will
repeat
136
HORSES
the
description
twice
'
:
which
the
of
constituency
ROADS.
AND
If the
is
crust
will
bristle-like
found
be
fibres
that
follows
long
they will bear
theyare kept in
as
viewed
so
resembles
together by
bound
has
Whoever
idea
good
likewise
to
have
the
tubes
of
which
use
already
form,
in any
that
seen
both
must
the
to
right to
of
to
do
tubes,
with
gun,
be
to
is
consider
that
left the
farrier
the
disease
Well
so.
may
gives
in
shall
the
its
a
with
filled
nourish
to
close
tubular
life ;
driving
is
driving
and
delicate
which
fluid
laceration,we
further
small
glue-like substance.
lacerate
these
totallyor partially,
come
of
a
and
them.'
preserve
We
The
state.
together,can form
crust, especially if they were
the
of
the
weight,
all soldered
imagine
fluid
thick
number
mitrailleuse
a
barrels
numerous
their natural
a
the
fibres,it
of
amount
a
but
From
the
of
great
hardened
a
seen
a
of
end,
on
ground.
particularlongitudinal construction
scope,
micro-
a
consist
to
standing
the
bearing diagonally towards
very
hearing
with
closelyexamined
structure
of
number
crust
the
"
its
so
worth
is well
He
crust.
of
Douglas gives
Mr.
causing
fibres
askant
that
Mr.
Lupton
he
more
:
"
from
the
helps
'
say
we
amount
easilycomprehend
spreads, the
taining
con-
when
double
a
nails,
either
up,
but
them
of
it
Farriers
of instruction
through a course
viously
preto being allowed
to operate upon
structures
the anatomy, physiology,and economic
of which
uses
studied, and, consequently, never
they have never
ought
to
go
understood.'
PROPERTIES
how
But
to
the
imagine
that
distribution
correct
occupy
the
It is
push
the
side,
the
to
general
whole
if the
of
versing
tra-
intended
was
front
in
divinely
either
on
destroy
even
prismatic-shaped portion
and
up,
ruined, by
it
it
fail to
whole,
difficult
get smashed
if not
which
space
not
secretion
impaired
the
of
adhesion
natural
this cannot
and
;
together ?
nails, which
it with
reduce
glue-likesubstance
this, also, must
its
137
HOOF.
THE
hardened
fibres
and
compressed,
and
the
about
binds
which
OF
of
nails
the
(from
their
not already dead
clinches)were
Thus
which
it generally is.
find that we
we
get
of dead
bundle
fibres
loose, shaky, uncemented
a
broom), easily destructible ; and the
(like a rotten
their
heads
to
"
deprived
is
crust
shock
the
and
of
and
from
as
which
warding
the
of its essential
it
it
by being
off from
leg, aided
made
sole, so
by allowing
to
as
the
has
demonstrated
the
ground.
to which
that
the
down
comes
gradually to
by
that
expansion
to
shock, when,
heel
in the
made
bars) to
immediately
toe,
complete
we
the
the
fail to
frog
at the
out
crust
Lupton
frog first
and
the
which
of
Mr.
crust, proceeding from
Omniscience
foot,
expansible
spring
the
to
the
necessity,the
a
parts were
(although strong
of
as
step,
strong, arched
a
it is attached.
the
these
Hence
it,
of
further
frog, and
the
each
important adjuncts
its lateral buttresses
quarters
bulk
such
of deadening
at
interior
(made
follow
quarters, carrying with
at
the
by
the
cloven) in
receive
must
soft, tough cushion
a
property
reach
soft and
pansible
ex-
receive
the
afterwards,
the
action
quarters
devised
acknowledge.
138
HORSES
whom
and
sacrifice
over
as
what
ought
'
of
horses,
animals,
hit
in
be
part
been
long
the
any
inventions
the
'
stable
proverb
; but
altogether; or
built
on
fanciful
to
say,
of
Owners
horses
to
was
the
unfair
of action
course
Because
his
and
way
every
of
no
wear
we
does
one
better
and
the
tear
in
expense
of pen
'
;
Any
of
and
but
soon
"
at
one,
as
mon
com-
bought
an
able
conceiv-
every
horse
tion
inten-
of the
nothing
it,I suppose
reason.'
as
having
a
roots,
if their
little
think
The
foundations,^
property
towards
!
they have
say
as
but
has
fort
com-
wrong
us
insecure
act
'
little the
from
it about
pursued
experience, at
the
but
;
essential
consulted
let
who,
man
knocked
expensive watch,
and
think
should
of
sense
rather
which
horse
no
how
sprung
their
out
foot
in
ought
ideas
of that
been
often
too
wear
"We
possible.
think
have
subject
We
'
or
if
out
suffers
more.'
No
hitherto
has
foot
cries
horse
a
;
hard-
and
of dumb
dog
treatment
frame.'
the
on
been
'
himself
horse's
a
of the
so
exerts
amend
the
A
especially.
hail
all, no
treatment
our
sulks
to
to
in
as
at,
neighbour's
my
ingratitude
our
probably
ready
ideas
apparent
is, after
of
and
him,
of
is
way
arrived
lives.
'It
becomes
to
daily give
we
just
their
"
deity
blindly obey,
we
are
of
remarks:
horses
and
promise
no
so
silence, and
to
'
what
mine
heartedness
you
be, the prime
to
but
that
animals
Impecuniosus
affair
behests
false
high priest,the knacker,
whose
to
hideous
a
down, whose
bow
we
ROADS.
thereof
lieu
in
raising up
AND
of
and
such
why
least, I
a
?
can
by stating
little
trouble
ink, hardly enough
HOESE'S
THE
to alarm
on
subject
a
noiv
foot
horse's
viz. the
reducing
139
bills,and
our
these
days
checking
the
in
and,
;
of
tion,
reduc-
tion
deteriora-
horses.^
of
If
OBSCURITY.'
IX
Greg, will assist in throwing light
confessedly veiled in obscurity,
^Ir.
even
'VEILED
foot
it
for the
only
were
thus
invitation
given by
Impecuniosus,'how could the writer, knowing what
he
knows
by experience, refrain from
standing up
'
for the
not
"
rights of
'
the friend
'
*
and
"
king
of
honour
ground, and sounds
sure
Virgil had not
would
perhaps
hoof
Brittle
but
it is flawed
It
they
is
than
all
all
have
very
for
well
The
is
Hence
the
frog,to
of
partial
be
make
abnormal
an
be
To
horseshoes, or
of
iron.
solid
like
horn,
'
shuflfybrick
a
less
use
abnormal
growths
do
"
of
a
in
use
any
an
at
iron-bound
always
to
this
weak.
comply
more
shoe, without
three-eighths of
of
that
say
with
comply
not
growth
are
to
thus
alone, and
thickness
than
be
people
some
bars
frog and
fraction.
not
the
up
clatter
'
or
saucer,
everything. They
a
turns
of
deep,
sound
not
Virgil
horn.'
the
of
sung
hoese.'
that
heard
or
that
confer
solid
with
title of
the
over.
calks,
only
seen
'
that
said
with
the
on
hoof
a
deep
cracked
a
let the
do
with
will
like
more
than
having
as
has
nowhere
be
to
to believe
are
writer
could
deservedly
if we
lion
animal
an
created
was
man,'
dignifiedthe
him
describes
he
of
such
And
that
'
one
beasts," reason
more
?
another
whilst
;
custom
not
but
companion
'
Lavengro
had
beast,
wild
a
'
animal
an
all
inch.
an
(and
it
can
foot),must
extent
That
;
it
and
will
140
HORSES
thus
is
only
grow,
is allowed
of
the
help
shoe
but
make,
remains
horse
were
unshod.
even
with
this
with
nails.
shoes.
Horses
*
The
his
will
will
be
on
the
at
about,
once
the
but
the
the
cost
horseflesh
it will
will
be
not
horses
and
wearing
scientific
the
it
as
Charlier.
is
The
of
millions
many
revolution
day
in
towns
pavement),
the
one
of
pupils :
large
our
country
before
doubt
no
it
most
"
shape
Modern
"
his
tells
have
shoe
to
powers
in
wood
shall
we
the
Examination
of
streets
common-sense
in
pounds
perhaps
the
forefeet
will
Charlier
foot, at
invented
the
crust,
mutilated
The
the
Fearnley
but
day!
pavior
stone
the
gets
least.'
on
Mr.
happy
most
still
to
rationally(with
paved
their
the
Lectures
come,
lifetime, when
then, 0
choose
"
our
it is let
sole ; but
Soundness,' published in 1878
to
day
As
gives greater holding
'
Literature
Horsey
shoes,
anything yet
In
as
the
destruction
it
she
as
superiority
others.
all
does
of
least
than
horse
the
So
best
that
time
same
far
so
in the
comes
over
Of evils
the
tip offers
of
'
in
animal,
Nature
frog has no forced
growth to
(in this respect only) as if the
the
crust,
clearlythat
more
the
to
Here
so.
Charlier
the
into
do
to
still
proves
her
extending
ROADS.
AND
comes
become
a
State
question.'
Think
owners
have
societies
who
self-imposed tasks,
your
who
this, ye
of
squandered
who
have
journalistswho
questionable
advice
!
and
public funds,
squandered
keep
have
upon
the
Eemember
your
old
that
stood
misunder-
vestrymen
ye
and
and
own,
track
it
horse-
ye
and
comes
ye
offer
from
142
HORSES
much
enough
attend
effect
the
don't
can't
be
hack
on
their
/eei
'
'
that
for
adduced
perform
deter
that
is
to
"
If
all.
touch
bare
you
in
that
form
altogether,
reach
front
say,
this
also.
;
point
they
you
not
the
go
the
it
do
in
shape
let
in
for
of
the
is
to
in
Massachusetts.
will
soon
throw
'
backing
stood
a
upon
so).
horse
Now,
be
can
it
be
seems
allowed
has
reason
persist
you
in
unless
as
if
'
la
a
therefore,
'going
should
you
Nothing
round.'
'all
do,
you
from
better
a
do
a
valid
No
became
round
of
quite
should
facility
us
all
they
and,
;
front
correspondent
a
work
severe
so
in
desire
capable
not
and
heels
shod
did
show
bad
is
because
performance.
to
'
at
they
every
its
ago
road,
most
to
upon
strange
him
the
is
long
quite
were
(although
backing
need
were
ordinary
any
called
they
yet
load
horses
his
that
Charlier,
Not
road.'
the
man
no
we
don't
forefeet,
mare's
The
and
open,
on
wrote
behind.
think
don't
what
but
;
I
They
the
like
attention
good
is,
feet.
shoeing
bad
get
more
fact
hind
the
to
of
they
much
The
springy.
more
ROADS.
AND
whole
been
ruped
quad-
shoeing
him
Charlier
tips
shoeing
hind
can
feet
go
When
away
those
143
XVI.
CHAPTEE
CUSTOM
OF
AXD
JEXXINGS
H.
EU:^fXING
FORE
THEM
STANDARD,'
OF
LETTER
OF
A
HER
THE
TEETH
EXPERIENCE
OF
MANY
"
MENT
ILL-TREAT-
IS
TO
KNOWN
DENTISTS
AND
^
IN
OFFICER
YOUNG
BOOTS
VETERINARY
"
A
TO
WIND-SUCKERS,
CAVALRY
IN
THEIR
EVENING
"
SIGHT
OF
ACTION
FAVOURABLE
HIS
CARIES
CRIB-BITERS,
"
'
BARE
ON
ON
TIPS
ATTRIBUTABLE
BE
"
horse's
A
FEET
HEELS
MAY
FEET
THEIR
AMERICA
HIGH
UNSHOD,
WITH
IMPAIRED
OF
HORSES
OF
RACES
HIND
WEARING
DISEASES
AFFECT
THEIE,
THE
INSTANCE
FROM
EACEHORSES
TRAnOXG
IN"
WITH
FEET,
LADY
OF
IN
WEAVERS
"
TELEGRAPH'
DAILY
TIPS
AND
"
UNSHOD
HORSES.
As
opinions
the hind
the
on
ones,
protected, or
Years
on
the
Mr.
care
as
One
trainer
is
other
is that
training.
the
the
them
'
from
Sportsman,'
of Mr.
racehorses,
of
given
:
many
trainer
in
either
of them
jVIr. Jennings
H.
be
most
be
tected
pro-
Twenty
which
a
Jennings,
Bac
at
horses
France
horses
the
feet and
'
in
and
de
la
"
as
majority
fore
should
extract
an
has
Jennings
peculiarityabout
stable
in
any
of
ideas
pairs should
establishment
the
Croix, Compiegne,
'
give
Turf,' in
well-known
of the
either
will
the
between
to which
whether
all,we
of
great diversity
difference
as
at
description of
the
the
of
proof
a
in
are
is enabled
under
or
the
his
England.
La
Croix
unshod, while
to
adopt
this
144
HORSES
capitalplan
for
have
travel
to
not
and
to
stables
which
this
and
any
the
Jennings
run
heels
The
toes.
establishment
natural
"
the
their
and
structure,
hind
the
that
their
this
the
large
"
foot
bare-
of
their
healthy
more
shod
are
fore
altogether
are
quarters
and
on
yearlings
the
from
firmer
plates
on
for, and
fore
fact,
by Henry
in
feet
feet
In
"
horses
and
frogs
things
young
tips
their
training, as
in both
broader
than
of
system
fine
growth
iron.
w^ith
benefit
immense
forest,
their
trained
"
wear
cared
leaves
the
and
races
the
all
well
are
especiallyderive
their
only
of
feet
horses
in
even
feet, and
hind
their
the
of
indeed
few
venes
inter-
two-year-olds a
"
very
that
in
generally,instead of contracting the
with
them, as it were,
binding
by
"
from
soil and
rides
yearlings and
way
ridden
are
loamy
their
their
on
distance
the
on
expand
to
roads
the
and
they gallop
opportunity
hard
short
very
there
gives
the
gallops. They
the
over
between
over
over
thoroughbreds
that
reason
their
from
their
the
ROADS.
AND
before
even
breaking.'
Of
to
go
any
the
them
ground
hard
real fact
if
is
due
only
being
that
took
all
they
the
employs
leaving
last remnant
in the
the
hind
shape
ones
not
to
their
be
of
of
'
them
iron, which
tips
in their
much
would
enable
'
on
travel
to
walking
feet
enabled
are
over
popular delusion,
a
it would
Their
roads.
good hard
sufficientlytoughened to
with
have
they
because
unshod
the horses
that
remark
the
course,
the
natural
better
exercise
then
over
become
dispense
to
Mr.
for
Jennings
fore feet
state.
only,
HIGH
HEELS
how
But
he
;
he
Will
piece
a
evidently not
was
fashion.
'
this
take
of hard
let
feet
his
just make
perfect.
The
foot
that
perfected thereby, and
better
upon
ground,
with
terms
hard
soft
or
a
it
by experiment
routine
'
and
lay
his horses'
and
roads
foot
at
but
can
but
can
or
be
may
and
it ? This
upon
racecourse,
they
as
hard
perfect
a
for himself,
of his unshod
some
exercise
to
would
out
to
system complete
is inured
alone
It
straighttip
'
and
road,
slave
a
youngsters try their walking
would
?
thought the thing
pluck enough to try
had
then
and
stands
Jennings
peculiarity
'
145
EYESIGHT.
had
if he
as
appear
Mr.
his
in
LADY'S
A
it that
is
trainers
amongst
out
INJUEING
be
stand
trainingtimes.
Qui
a
peut le plus pent le rtioins.
we
find
the
'It
is
that
one
should
was
not
her
it
years
should
be
and
a
others
this
again
equally
salutary hint
that
This,
a
the
other.
It
of
should
L
former
in
to
true
unnatural
be
diately
imme-
that
times
In
grace.
that
waists
ference,
painfully-small circum-
habit
a
; and
there
mischievous.
and
she is not
it appears,
and
of
asserts
nature
other,
so
demands
became
false
be
satisfies the
yet
to
should
each
to
girl'swaist
a
equally
was
art
demands
arms,
then, however,
impunity.
the
compressed
but
exist
which
indispensable
considered
later
opposition
that
natural
and
nature
in
are,
outrage
under
was
that
pity
a
theory of beauty
a
17, 1880,
"
they
often, as
March
of
Evening Standard
following paragraph :
the
In
to
was
herself,and
be
Now
gives
maltreated
lately the
with
case
at
146
HORSES
Boston.
A
the
consulting
him
To
she
time,
a
she
neither
best
her
of
the
The
things, and
foot."
The
French
boots
little
stilts.
then
said, "
then
and
how
see
with
come
to
your
eyes
to
her
to
how
the
the
did
be,
it may
At
eyesight
end
of
the
and
nerves
and
nerves
the
rest
;
all
of
comprehend
that
high
In
this
girl'scase
told
was
stronger
he
visited
explained
communicated
how
injuring
she
did
information
develope
Nature
"
tion;
hesita-
she
which
gathered enough
dangers.
we'll
and
but
heels
time, and
and
understand,
like
heels,
month
tendons,
of
off those
became
tendons
pair
stolidly,and
without
but
were
heels
she
as
report improvement,
injured
some
She
are."
certain
other
with
month's
a
little
it
seem
feet
course,
take
your
not
her
at
and
in
me
of
of
about
out
did
delicious
looked
home
gradually
doctor
a
matter
doctor
slight pang,
a
a
Go
stronger.
the
as
The
Yes.
and
and
with,
in
Put
"
for
driving
her
asked
her,
to
incased
were
and
could
in terror
it was,
as
always
she
now
was
said,
suddenly
request, strange
and
small,
she
oculist
altogether disagreeable
had
play. Eiding
nor
question, and
several
She
but
lately;
of
course
neighbourhood.
story.
until
blind.
becoming
the
her
and,
worse,
sensible
in
sad
work,
nor
and
the
that
found
worse
oculist
health
read,
out
were
became
adopted
told
enjoyed good
ROADS.
lady living there
young
eyesight gradually
after
AND
not
to
unexpected
having
was
her
revenge.'
Here
of the
is food
foot will
for
cause
reflection
for
us.
disarrangement
Ill-treatment
in
an
organ
so
from
remote
other
to
is the
rein, which,
thick
of
the
to
the
horses
them
?
do.
So
and
most
which
secrets
of
hunters,
and
'have
and
fare
from
the
caused
be
free from
so
worse
these
of
any
than
ours
acknowledged,
by the falsely
of
shoeing,there
are
be
attributed
it ; and
the
of
like
much
been
or
they
these,
glanders may
to
others
imagination, when
to
be
suppose
some
that
day
it
we
some
traced
to
of the foot.
Fearnley deplores that
should
in
'
may
great stretch
ill-treatment
Mr.
should
evil
necessary
even
;
'
blindness,
apart
'
no
true
the
apparent, diseases
needs
as
are
harder
that
see
subtle
cases
work
They
more
be
likelyto
fancy considerably
existence.' It is a singular
to be
very rarely indeed
for their
other
In
had
have
sufferingfrom
infirmities.
Why
we
larynx
'
the
of
racers
as
wind,
with
let into
even
Koaring
bearing-
'
'
and
fact,that unshod
are
or
acquainted with the bearingroarers.'
Whistling,' wheezing,'
broken
and
account
so-called
same
the
eye
abuse
horses,such
are
thought about,
met
foot,
body.'
is most
cases,
'
yet
to
the
do
become
wind
racked
organ
some
never
rein, and
to
due
have
the
Next
'
:
says
be
in
we
have
the
to
nearer
are
delicate
supposed to
that
it will
ergo,
;
147
WIND.
it.
most
then
eye
that
Fearnley
Mr.
but
the
as
organs
from
farther
is
it
HORSE's
THE
AND
ROARING,
the
alism
spirit of speci-
be
wanting amongst veterinarysurgeons.
America, however, they have veterinary dentists,
we
may
these
learn
from
chapters.
shoer,'in his
'
a
treatise
Mr.
Scientific
already quoted
from
Kussell, 'practical horse-
Horseshoeing,'says
L
2
'
:
There
148
HORSES
are
frequently occurring, where
cases,
action
the
a
and
bad
out
of
left,the
his
front
be
therefore,
must,
these
difficulties.
celebrated
for
veterinary
on
me
that
side
feet
and
dentist
occasions,
many
The
to
teeth
obviate
York, operate
with
and
or
Clark, the
E.
New
neck
right
to
E.
gait
is forced
legs.
Dr.
of
and
the
treated
had
have
I
in his
head
on
is
side,and
tangled
properly
teeth
one
to
is
continued
a
either
foot
This
the
of
pulls his
body,
hind
the
between
If he
action.
shall find
cause.
caries
he becomes
that
with
line
other
shoeing ;
we
sufferingfrom
lug on the bit on
to
manner
in his
the
of
animal
inclines
such
kind
any
some
when
case
the
and
toothache
land
by
originatesfrom
it
present,
to
remedied
imperfect
an
closelyinvestigatethe matter,
sometimes
in
be
cannot
but, if we
that
ROADS.
AND
wonderful
success.'
The
a
'
who
man
reads
practical horseshoer.'
have
the
been
the
caries
reacted
in
its turn
locomotion
At
there
of
the
be
a
upon
rate, Mr.
the
feet
Eussell's
sympathy between
horse, and these are
the
or
first
that
other
experience
the
the
teeth
parts
it not
place
this
had
of
organs
exaggeration
an
manner
from
;
may
be
which
evil
may
that
the
heels
him
of
that
are
it cannot
conclude
that
in
a
somewhat
they
are
to
affected
especiallysince
proves
and
Therefore
remotely separated.
considered
seat
in
teeth, and
is
similar
all,might
after
?
any
most
styleshimself
lesson
had
that
the
of
respiratory organs
the
But
shoeing
caused
this
us
fairlybe
the
nearer
to
supposed
to
150
AND
HORSES
the
face
that
in
instance
every
continual
he
the
frog
incapable by
functions
; and
unshod, yet he
also
granite
or
Douglas
says
that
rocks
goats
its
his
as
unbroken
animal
Mr.
impunity.
would
is
loose
amongst
suffer from
they
"
navicular
do
if
so
they
shod.
were
Perhaps
kindly
unshod
'
The
will
has
of
these
pathologist will
now
therefore
'
shoeing
arise
who
veiled
in
will
by giving
a
host
Sight
blind,
nor
up
shoeing they
of diseases
could
an
and
not, of
he
is
will
have
of
case
into
considered
Some
cause.
give
weavers.'
forced
be
day
In
convince
the
time
mean-
that
some
struck
at
a
of
account
an
obscurity.'
practicalexperiment
them
single
cannot
their
to
as
*
or
a
of
by saying
us
amongst
with
met
that
favour
found
have
experience
wind-suckers,'
three;
entirely blameless
influences
had
never
conclusion
the
'
their
give
still further
crib-biters,'
who
correspondents
to
they
not
writer
either
those
forward
come
or
many
of
some
horses
whether
of
about
with
never
that he believes
disease, but
so
solid
over
the
unbroken
gallop
can
course
far
as
in
The
by
performing
that,
says
it is.
course
frog,of
it is unknown
extends,
Of
animal.
afterwards
cause.
caused
is
of
the
upon
with
disease
farrier
is true
nervous
told
effect
diseased
the
It
cause
have
cases
a
"
?
would
navicular
rendered
knowledge
shoe
confounded
that
also
on
pressure
in most
but
constitution,
states
the
"
suffering,which
would
irritability,
He
ROADS.
the
root
vices.
course,
anchylosisbe
be
restored
loosened,
and
to
so
the
forth
;
EXAMINATIONS
151
SOUNDNESS.
TO
AS
failingsight might be improved, and incipient
instances.
ossifications be dispersed in some
but
The
horses
three
only
which
of
so
badly
hoofs, except
whilst
bad,
is
action
he has
as
suffers
One
sound.
the
fortnightly;
out
and
grow,
will
likely come
most
he
which
for
is
after
The
number
Veterinary
as
to
find
themselves
as
to
to
how
save
rid
much
existing
at
is
when
to
add
future
trouble
and
and
case
he
scarcely
has
has
of
not
as
he
splints,
with
found
blisters,
be
to
worse.
legion.
riders
examine
horse
a
to
their
which
circumstances
some
pared
defined by law, continually
prejudice
in the
is
were
habit
third
they
of their
themselves,
for instance
it is
as
obliged
unsoundness
only get
stables
surgeons,
soundness,
;
periodicallytortured
such
of
'
lift up
crib-biter,but
a
; the
that
that
reach
his
blistering he
each
and
to
his
;
be
to
confirmed
a
become
young,
toe,
they
if
hoofs
has
has
and
^
to
have
that
corns
giiaiuingeverything within
yet, being quite
valuable
second
seedy toe,
the
stable, also containing
be
from
of
nails
tendency
a
behind
each
six
has
has
and
of
"
very
inside
centre
he
always
would
and
himself
the
on
the
of another
horses, which
three
purchased
quarter
cuts
nails
half
outside
knows
He
behind.
third
no
contains
windsucker,
a
just inside
one
the
on
has
he
that
is
the
; and
fetlocks
false
second
the
;
when
ones
from
suffers
which
stable
one
valuable
"
one
brittle hoofs
overshot
of
knows
writer
date.
in
favour
If
cates
certifilead
may
they
of
could
the
shoe,
responsibilitythey might
what
of
disgusting operations
quittor they might
"
"
free
152
HORSES
from
themselves
is
obviously
follyfor
in the
of
mortal
pride
defeat
of
time
than
suffer rather
make
or
discard
;
they
deviate
cannot
listen
is
"
chorus,
respond
another
hazardous
!"
be
moment
stoop
to
employ
of
so
Thus
does
not
this
as
to
without
shoes
of
shoes.
some
sort
merely
in
is
were
particularly
might
at
any
only
would
would
man
think
a
not
the
over
gainer
in
pocket.^
have
He
not
can-
property,"
race
If
have
exclaim
men
Horse
"
they
they
but
might possibly be
inexpensive experiment
do
they
human
he
but, unfortunately,
speaks Mayhew;
appear
which
noise, however,
obstinately,but
luell
march,
"
but,
;
the
culpables,
if the
sustain
can
Nature,"
little reflection.
a
combat, he
happiness, as
of
gang
All
"
to
silly custom
a
master,
stubborn."
very
avoided,
fightquite
cause
instructor.
will
not,
chastisement
line
the
tuate
perpe-
will
They
upon
the
human
to
they
;
desert
once
abuse
can
the
to
victor
endure
can
from
almost
retreat, and
to
usage.
from
They
adopted.
incapable
onward
press
peace,
crabs, when
land
horse,
nevertheless,
;
scorn
a
ancient
an
punishment
in
own
advantageous
an
like
They
contest.
the
seem
forward
going
beings, though always beaten,
the
ever,
How-
relinquisha hopeless struggle.
been
commencement
"
against
over
loss
of
ages
to
has
strife
the
and
:
the universe.
govern
It
*
says
contend
to
exercising power
mankind
causing
The
of
case
of
centuries
Mayhew
performing.
organisationswhich
those
ROADS.
AND
even
of
tried
seeing
had
a
what
always
the
a
been
necessity,and
simple
might
horse
told
he
and
that
took
it
for
condemns
still
both
Fortunately
work
scientists
are
out
the
them
of
some
how
date
will not
has
As
excuses
to
themselves.
the
of what
could
"
might
do
minded
he
do
not
found
as
so.
this.
out
they
horse
of
be,
may
or
the
he
possess
*
do
shoes
were
he
See
Appendix
was
with
a
E,
'
"it
will
is
it
one
that
used
that
the
not
the
not
have
all the
so
;
would
matters
may
is
they
they
that
Jennings
that
that
scarcely less
IVIr. H.
to
that
one
foresees
believe
what
divines
there
But
shoes, although
had
trivial
it,but
in
without
He
of
of horses, but
classes
most
he
breed
they
say
shoes
already
which
is
with
sorts
'
(although
many
particularkind
Fe,' ^ people
all
Fe
which
in interpreting
away
it.'
tries
him
others)
with
well
answer
doing
of
future
Zulus.
Santa
Santa
; and
virtually what
us
to
'
ways
a
succeeded
something
else
be
it is that
'
be
by
will
of
excuses,
someone
unmentioned
there
at
frequently urged is,
most
may
until
wait
hear
by making
can,
probable
there
think
to
by
trial
they
perhaps
and
the
as
such
five
care
be
remarked
been
still shirk
long
as
same
to
whilst
former
the
inscriptionswould
cuneiform
a
selves
satisfythem-
to
do
now
are
had
problems.
will
have
pathologistsmay
things which
will
even
the
their
of
error
Others
regards shoeing.
as
able
been
the
of
thoroughly
he
wait
to
of
intricacies
have
strongly
him.
obliged
not
we
He
case.
prejudice,'yet
'
clinging to
thirty days people
In
the
and
153
RACEHOESE.
THE
was
'
routine
'
of
such
that
granted
leaven
AND
JENNINGS,
H.
to
do
others
narrow-
racer,
nuisance, both
and
to
154
HORSES
animal
and
them.
He
succeeded
noire
bete
the
The
off
tear
them
not
twenty
has
the
to
life
its
kept
and
ten
and
paved
horn
shod
them,
during
the
and
in
horses'
boggy meadows,
standing
opinion
veterinary
who
elsewhere
them
have
with
exists
suggestions.
I
served
their
I
have
when
feet
but
a
is not
upon
am
both
well
at
regiments,
heard
matters
home,
another
their
That
;
in
who
the
that
by turning
aware
and
horse
foot-lame
by removing
such
the
brittleness
satisfied
am
the
without
found
I
self,
my-
roads
in
stalls,
stronger,
and
eight
for
hard
on
paved flooring.
on
surgeons
I
have,
tips only,
had
over
galloped
I
them
it has
shod,
be
night.
never
turn
pony
been
roads.
grow
named.
time
improve
of
some
I
that
a
keeping them,
heels
people
experiments
to
with
the
in
else
or
I know
never
except by
disappear, and
out
such
granite-paved
on
tougher, weak
to
In
hard
letter
a
'If
failed, but
has
the
of hoof
way
work,
accustomed
streets, and
under
to
together,using
stable, standing
litter
that
on
months
has
that
horses
my
fail.
been
children
by
will
age
from
appeared
practical test.
a
of
years
about
put horses
theory
put
all
from
28, 1878.
December
they
to grass,
been
him
taken
is
extract
shoes, and
it is not
hindered
that
"
his ambition.
of
Daily Telegraph,'of
their
to
roads
Cavalry Officer,'which
'A
down
hard
of
"
without
do
to
them
cutting
multitude
point
tried
his fear
only
following
signed
he
so
in
the
of
arriving at
*
and
master,
size ; and
smallest
ROADS.
AND
them
shoes,
sity
diver-
a
amongst
but
I
know
India,
approve
gravely
and
my
insist
CAVALRY
A
the
that
be
OFFICER
feet
of
stopped
twice
feet
soft^
their
It
bound
that
he
the
for
loan
would
find
of
the
that
deal
great
them
chapters;
still,
letter
almost
is
remains
may
so
hard
to
anything
'
has
for
as
they
which
letter
for
(from
be
is
coincides
been
because,
how
really
as
then
The
generality
well
have
in
upon
of
remained
mainder
re-
with
strikingly
the
they
as
children
true.
insisted
a
asked
and
use,
know
to
one
unbelievers
people,
a
these
this
unwritten
"
horse-owners
make
immediately
nothing
it,
not
twenty-
for
refusing
about,'
ponies
will
children's
for
pony
that
regards
stands
these
of
(inwardly),
say
knock
a
he
J
ojBQcers
cavalry
children
carry
so
some
of
as
hard
so
unbelievers
to
and
let
should
we
it
had
only
But
proof.
But
keep
to
summer
are
find
we
should
regiment
the
roads
when
pony,
probably),
three
the
tape.
unshod
year-old
his
in
during
because
red
by
say
week
a
refreshing
is
horse
every
155
HORSES.
UNSHOD
ON
them
that
believe
yet
to
learn
!
there
156
CHAPTER
THE
HUNTER
CONSIDERED
TIPS
WITH
ON
HUNTERS
the
not
be
'
utility
is
IN
to
Next
may
ON
not
find
him
to
of his
decay
the
from
he
such
early age
would, when
stable
'
He
the
until
just
old
'
Impecuniosus
describes
ten
five
years
collectivelythe
fit for slower
hunted
'
screws
which
price
is
There
do
we
character
a
accordingly
the
natural
would
unfit
of
he
being
is, he
now
work,
long
might in
a
his old
in
servant
at
age.
in
'
ago,
'
"
which
fact, he
In
useful
a
:
general
good place at the
instead
cab-rank.
extreme
a
'
a
emulation
of diseases
mass
remain
before
into
still be
aged,
instances
many
the
This
years
unshod,
went
of
ahead
cab
his master
carrying
do
can
of.'
as
situation, and
a
a
PERCHA
GUTTA-
if,indeed, he
"
of him
says
strength,fire,and
If
way
him
"
CONTINUALLY
him,
horse
a
capable
drawing
finish.
an
before
world
get
WITH
hunter
Fearnley
hunter
the
him
find
the
comes
Mr.
NAILING
FOOT.
considered
in
calculated
we
racer
UNILATERAL
TRANSPIRATION
HORSE's
THE
horse.
nothing
ON
'
IMPECTJNI0ST7S
EXPERIENCE
NATURAL
"
'
OP
MILES
"
THOMPSON'S
SOLES
GOING
EXPERIENCE
"
ANSTRUTHER
COL.
XVII.
of
economical
an
that
he
could
one
had
in his
hardly
sound
manner.
stables
have
horse.
cost
They
158
HORSES
It has
been
of
Eights
well
'
To
and
dirt
retaining
hunter
and
of iron
big opening,
When
smaller
become
without
bottom
the
shoe
of
does
Youatt
shoe
it that
will
heel
and
on
the
If
people
would
be
swung
at
first
tells
to
of
end
The
the
the
shod
any
other
this, the
detract
find
that
a
the
from
is
of
stone
hunter
it,as
hard
a
An
ounce
the
back.'
weight
is not
the
of
has
of
ounces
to
the
present
re-
horse's
leg
fore,
There-
orders.
steeplechaser.Add
and
weight-carrying power,
thirteen
on
heavily handicapped
more
disease
on
how
third
horse, except the
absence
of
:
which
leverages in
out
weight
'
says
this extra
and
with
end
pound
lever
would
Charlier.
the
understand
second
hunter
a
make
nothing
in the
two
proverb
than
more
order, they would
largely of
than
old
reflect
the
or
in
slip
dirt
the
weight
foot
be
out
would
to
the
its
dovni
it would
pull
ounce
feet
them
would
sadly before
an
pounds.
are
there
could
An
'
:
tell
'
their
up
with
the
about
cause
always excepting
"
;
would
picking
away
withdrawal,
on
as,
day, and
hunters
carrying
by contraction,
says
day's work
does
they put
sucking,'whilst
'
the
the
and
morrow's
to-
is constructed
it from
Unshod
of
ploughed land, expansion
a
becomes
third
his foot
:
shoeing
drawback
dirt.
the
prevents
but
;
The
'
historyof thought,
of
mechanism.
and
of the
free
be
the
to
architecture
entitled
fourth.'
principle which
a
upon
the
wisdom
of the
lesson
return
work
a
to-day'slaughing-stock
is
child's
in
In
*
:
doubt, the
the
ROADS.
said
Animal
an
which
that
AND
of
pain which
and
the
we
must
should
present day
MILES
well
up
feed
when
be
fifteen
to
he
the
distraught from
in his
agony
Then,
feet
about
wet
on
This
fact
that
in
in
grass,
and
in
force
become,
horses
(and
have
land
field,over
says
of the
benefit
the
hunter
him
it is
which
'
:
"
in the
inner
the
(?).
be
called
the
horse
road
and
"
road
a
boon
to
sake
Let
and
upon
to
what
his rider
horse,
and
leap
to
one
in
is shod
hunter
his feet
from
happens?
is thrown
but
the
in
expansive portion
most
with
like
some
security,placed
of
horse
a
nails
few
eight nails,some
or
seven
is the
a
Mr.
full extent
largely than
^Mien
be
drop-jump
the
every
grass
lane.
highest order,
the
that
would
a
or
nailingwith
with
manner,
hoof
hard
into
imagine.
to
appear
falls
taking
in
cated.
edu-
prehend
easily com-
may
and
must
the
to
slippery
on
experiences
great
quarter, which
of the
off
with
consider
to
participatesmore
always, for
are
a
leverage
come
we
will
flyout,
apparent
again,
blessing of
usual
of
do.
horses
clods
effects
of one-sided
his rider
persons
the
take
horse
No
shod
slip
further
note
may
of
feet
when
fence,
a
; it is
a
we
refusals, baulks,
Then,
Miles
but
the
to
as
over
also)at leaps, we
it
upon
diminished.
a
ones
the
often
that
from
shod
when
still,
so
by
unshod
not
reflection,more
Further
that
cattle-driving,do
roll
; and
they do,
upon
not
stomach
told
been
valuable,
grass
would
his
of
for his
eager
attention
cravings
weathers
certain
his
as
have
we
is
and
ready
legs.
used
alone
clog even
the
and
again,
horses, when
a
stone, and
got home,
159
NAILING.
UNILATERAL
ON
a
so
stanced
circum-
high
bank
The
weight
with
an
into
of
impetus,
160
HORSES
which
greatly increases
of the
foot ; these
neither
hoof
the
the
nails,as
clever
the horse's
England,
them
; but
induced
than
longer
it, were
and
and
be
of
precursors
their
by
seen
are
the
size, form,
of
shape, be
used
and
uphold
to
full
even
the
and
on,
ment
improve-
an
is
failure
this
of
? because
'
counted
ac-
Impecunio-
of, their
their
be
to
people
cannot
horses
being
any
of
Both
backs.
without
of
aware
the
iron, in
the
number
of
nails
of
shoe.
Iron
was
weight
stumbling-block,as
all who
nails
although veterinary
How
on
the
on
non-shoeing system, as
gradual, although only partial
of
tardy, reduction
still their
that
they
few
made
allow
To
remain
thus
think
gentlemen, although
these
may
whilst
in
extent
shoe
but
to
the
for, or
tion
contrac-
case.
the
in
used
impression
care
and
is the
it up,
than
proved
seen,
universallyrecognised,
right.
more
three
or
manner.'
marked
very
now
he
and
two,
already
found
was
an
to
a
followed
he
for,any
make
to
hoof, and
was
of one,
expansion
nails
one
no
said
surgeons
be
that
it is
benefited,
be
to
have
inserted
shoe
The
at that.
sus'
we
lining
substance, the
merciless
a
such
of the
only
to
in
least,that
he
scope,
outside
foot
at
they
and
them,
hard
shanks
exist
foot ; and
that
fettered
so
for
bones
violence
immense
are
own
be,
experiments
positivelydo
in
as
the
upon
exquisitelysensitive
the
may
had,
Miles
Mr.
by
case
with
room
their
and
both,
of which
the
between
unyielding horn,
of
make
to
consequently squeeze
of
that
sides
yield
can
ROADS.
jammed
are
hoof, both
the
into
AND
its
it will
use.
advantage.
It
continue
cannot,
to
in
be
any
In the
issue,
has
Daily Telegraph
'
read
we
just
winter
promised
his mind
up
him
his
from
horses
was
innovation
strange
fox-hunting
the
to
neither
records
Sporting Grazette,"
"
frost
nor
few
A
trained
stop
and
men
the
since
days
thermometer
the
should
snow
sport, and
favourite
With
A
Thompson, finding that the
be a long and
sharp one, made
accordingly.
seen.
'
Day's
-
to
that
of last Christmas
into
According
Anstruther
'
:"
introduced
been
in Fifeshire.
Colonel
follows
as
lol
GUTTAPERCHA,
ANSTRUTHER-THOMPSON"
COLONEL
result
eight degrees
at
below
and
freezing-point,
the
snow,
he
neighbours met,
lady, their horses having
and
them
amongst
being
previously had
the
guttapercha.
without
a
as
At
as
for
the
sun
by
was
further
such
likelyto
be
an
proved
circumstances,
been
early winter,
over
In Colonel
rest, it
at
But
day.
thus
regarded
in
everywhere
may
the
too
take
late
experiment
has
it is
this
that
season
at
the
; so
prospects
heart, and, by the
little
and,
Scotland, that
trembled
who
was
best.
successfullymade
impression
followed
aid
training,yet chase
snow-covered
ground.'
Anstruther-Thompson we have another
guttapercha
fox
time
has
of hunters
owners
of the
this
sport that
created
the
snow
and
out
of the very
disadvantageous,the going was
length,however, the fox managed to escape,
Thompson
of
the
despite all
drawn
was
rushed
in the
scent
with
covered
wood
foxhunting have
in
Colonel
the
The
; and
now
feet
fox
presently a
followed.
until
their
of
while, Balcorm
a
but
amazingly good
which
one
with
covered
his
of
soles
For
success,
sharp run
number
a
ground
soles
and
a
M
162
HORSES
unconscious
this at
and
late
The
of
them
for
Guttapercha
hoof
naked
had
that
is
for many
obstruct
unhealthy
an
kept
were
these
All
is that
the
whole
the
whole
hoof,
sole
cause
so
if its
tion
applica-
continually.
up
ideas
lead
the
freer
the
over
of which
one
reasons,
transpiration,and
of
state
the
bestowed
previously
obvious
natural
leap.
still if it had
better
guttapercha applied
would
each
too
difficulties,but
care
'
eight
ground
it after
upon
done
judicious
the
;
balled
'
the
and
rendered
these
have
would
it ; and
upon
have
off
staved
month's
a
horses,
alight
to
have
would
snow
iron-shod
of frost would
degrees
hard
of
date.
non-shoeing system
the
precursor
hoofs
the
in
a
ROADS.
AND
the
to
up
hoof
point, which
main
is from
the
iron
it
better
does.
Should
going
an
unshod
marked
puts it, let
reversed
the
This
it
is
be
seen
the
This
damp
him
hold
the
of the
an
for five minutes
will
the
see
wineglass
a
then
sole, and
glass becomes
in
a
shod
raising up
foot
permit
forbids
of
of the
foot
carries
its
the
The
horse.
off the
condensation
constant
of
each
mouth
its
find
will
that
shortlycovered
with
the
that
into
belief
because
shoe
it cannot
air which
of
current
the
by
with
he
put
Mayhew
as
or,
;
tinually
con-
dry flagstones,
on
imprint
them
upon
is
let him
horse,
a
frightensthe grooms
unnatural
phenomenon,
the
not
in
upon
inside
dew.
he
transpiration
of
foot
stand
then
and
foot
in the
on
to
one
that
doubt
anyone
neath
under-
admits
vapour,
upon
employment
and
a
so
dry
of
does
floor.
gutta-
INFORMATION
found
be
would
closed, except
that
fear
would
of
rest
another
day
to
make
whole
for
over
foot,
and
in
encounter
he
hunt
could
This
make
should
If
shoes
Lane,
pamphlet,
a
elucidated.
is
obtuse.
night
and
ever
9, Park
of
sixpence,
illustrated, and
most
hoof
floor,
repeatedlybeing asked for as
apply the Charlier shoe. Mr^ W.
and
thing
bare
a
to
are
Stevens, M.R.C.V.S.,
post free,
is
short
very
at
then,
and
door
week.
a
Instructions
how
on
returns
could
a
leg
this device.
is stabled
nothing that he
his day's work ;
and
that
than
perfect
a
foot
for
and
and
cover
have
roads, will
hard
the
to
goes
that
the
it ; hence
better
tip is
163
SHOE.
of
emergency,
hunter
unshod
The
and
an
Charlier
The
time.
CHARLIER
from
arise
to
on
THE
of diseases
kinds
All
percha.
ON
W.,
the
is well
clear
the
to
the
required, or
are
sends,
wherein
pamphlet
details
H.
sary
neces-
tool
drawing-knife (which is the only extra
also supplies them, as
will
required), Mr. Stevens
be seen
on
perusalof the pamphlet. Messrs. Arnold
"
one
Smithfield,
ordering shoes,
When
'
West
Sons, 36,
hind
foot
'
tips
are
kept,
tracing
a
be
should
supply
of
latest
bit
Those
valuable
short
who
and
of
the
wish
This
bars.
for
knowing this much,
the subject.
'
tips
'
without
M
2
can
knife.
fore
is
that
a
'
gives
the
'
stops
ivorth
further
full
'
short
a
'
shoe
good
knoiving.
easily get
any
and
likely that
information
significant fact
shoe
is no
longer made, but only
(a three-quarter one, in fact) which
the
the
one
It is not
sent.
the
but
also
on
after
hints
on
164
HORSES
There
of
they
unshod,
result.
would
free
all
from
seedy
toe,
brushing,
thrushes,
navicular
or
suffers
ever
much
is
there
'
filled
stringhalt,
and
less
one.
by
made,
laiu.
bad
in
same
and
many
all
the
of
be
unshod
by
'
of
which
which
ground.
veterinary
advantages,
splints,
'
swollen
than
also
mention
constitute
to
and
curbs,
tendons,
with
horse
legs
quittor,
thickened
found
applies
defects,
spavins,
action,
to
remark
defects
seen,
different),
are
are
what
instance,
wind-galls,
overreach,
frequency
infirmities
been
Cwhich
stumbling,
The
For
over
or
horse
or
certain
these
besides
side-bones,
legs
or
have
we
cutting
diseases
work
as
others.
are
ring-bones,
'
allowed,
But
surgeons.
his
as
sandcrack,
unshod
No
these
of
any
hard
how
matter
This
from
disease.
them
pass
pumice-foot,
corns,
that
them,
sell
hoof,
brittle
of
suspicion
the
at
performance,
always
would
surgeon
them
try
surprised
to
came
either
would
superior
they
who
and
matter
a
they
If
their
when
find,
as
agreeably
be
aside
veterinary
hounds,
to
might
hunters
breed
pleasure.
Setting
they
no
of
or
ROADS.
who
horses
young
business
the
farmers
are
their
ride
AND
singularly
in
those
has
the
shod
occult
already
unsoundness
166
HORSES
advantages
one
his
gaits
would
him
much
and
airy,rendering
and
give
rider
she
time
same
in
his
a
trifling
no
"
become
elastic
more
easier
sit and
to
ride,
graceful seat, while
more
would
hand
in
less
experience
at the
fatigue,and
be
greater safety.
Should
reader,
the
lines
these
it is to
time
there
ladies, at
least.
above
part
gets
hoof
will
should
fair
lady
comfort
where
but
Charlier
The
it
will
be
found
universal
he
did
only
made
the
improvement.
of
hoof
in
for
grows
the
of
if
a
system,
practice, the
as
the Charlier,
great
very
full
well
all round
best
in
thin
present
safetyas
shod
put
'
now
the bottom
her
the
and
shoe
the
invent
better
of
breadth
and
is much
narrow
it is
fashion,
improve
may
broad, heavy,
not
it
edge
of
scientific
un-
'
shoe
now
thin
shoe
provement
imin
use.
by imbedding
outer
that
an
great extent,
a
effective,and
the
Charlier
tip ;
as
very
on
almost
to
is
defects
and
easily be
cannot
tip, made
common
that
herself, by having him
to
tips.
reflect
shoeing
to him
in comfort
her
that the
diseases
play,
their
thus, when
; and
fair
any
give
change
a
of
may
affair,and
gradually disappear
favourite, both
with
of
consider
downwards
entirely. Any
not
she
mode
be
her
Let
notice
Let
old-fashioned
and
from
that
consideration.
present prevailing
high
the
attract
hoped
be
due
substance
as
ROADS.
being lighter
as
all
and
"
AND
in
the
sole
Mayhew
"
narrow,
such
of
use
crust,
and
on
a
this
*
says:
affording
the
"
a
piece
level
or
of iron
with
the
was
certainly
All
idea
of
an
the
slightestprotection
ON
MAYHEW,
be
should
has
at
picker rather
should
nails
There
iron
the
safety
of
highly
of
of
short
only
the
idea
Mavhew
wrote.
It may
such
a
when
shoe, as
short
such
that
the
case,
experiment
a
or
would
that
as
bring
from
|
would
for
strip
narrow
shortly
of
is
to
full-sized
a
break
or
that
found
not
tip,it
a
was
;
but
found
in
that
the
shoes
suggest the
may
found
by practical
the
wear
This
out.
wear
and
longest;
for this.
account
for
horse
width
of
in. to
^ in., and
the
has
observed, only
Light iron,
the
twist
superficialthought
as
light nails, and
and
is
shape
either
light
proper
be
only.
the
be
repeat here
iron
soon
light tips may
for Mr.
Douglas
little reflection
The
in
more
w^ould
Charlier
to
to
as
neither.
Impulsive
is not
strip of
then
his
M.
to
of
Mayhew
that
see
cient
suffi-
tips
shoe
of
place
afford
doubt
no
imbedding
length required
it will do
idea
form
we
of
out
applied
will
it
be
can
occurred
weak
narrow,
answer
the
be
not
of
idea
iron, which
after
So
valued.'
to
substance
Were
this
shoe
allow
to
the
tips
generally employed,
more
and
pierce
to
The
enough
hoof,
the
of
particles
injury.
wide
web
broad
hurtful
to
from
the
of
for the
room
sole
wall
the
to
bearing
harbour
only just
made
be
the
because
general employment
afford
to
protect the
to
the
the
proved by
been
than
abolished,
once
167
TIPS.
narrowness
nail-holes
been
few
of
nearer
tip
a
of
the
them,
web
to the
of
a
lady's
thickness
to
hold
the
edge
tip
of
the
in.
^
it
quires
re-
on
;
would
hoof,
168
HORSES
the
of
danger
almost
much
be
Perhaps,
horses
done
after
with
away
might
might
were
found
suggest
itself
their
advantage
expect that those
not
by shoeing,
if
entirelycured
be
arrested
;
they
the
find
by
that
the
absence
feet
and
'
legs
also
the
bit
after
the
horse
A
with
plain
or
makes
them
and
brought
about
be
can
progress
may
horses
under
them,
and
pain
in their
in
springy,' and,
'
more
easier
difference
a
their
of
ages,
cartil-
ride.
to
the
them
Let
weight they
throw
while.
a
to
be
carry
well
timid
or
lady safely
a
suited
for
elderly
an
rider
inexperienced
and
the
of
sex.
Park
hacks,
authority,
'
with
'
inconvenience
would
gentleman,
bones,
must
equally consoling, they
is
adapted
ease
They
their
; but
of
safer
consequently,
on
change
who
farther, will
no
been
;
more
those
the
of
do
to
horses
firmly established,
are
going
tips,and
their
two.
or
have
and, what
will
notice
the
by
they get
diseases
which
tendons
or
of
But
week
their
find
something
them.
a
there
willing
of
success,
to
in
feet
be
hoof.
may
found
hind
a
the
wearing
be
should
employ tips, even
find
the
on
thus
and
;
ladies
the
would
parts
of
some
through
them
if this
time,
them
of
some
with
mutilation
of
a
sensitive
away
less
improved
then
and,
pricking the
entirely
would
ROADS.
AND
has
it
would
go
them, because
it must
of tan
also
and
more
already
been
shoes
safely without
the
shoes
accumulate
be
unpleasant
manure
conceded
thrown
to
in
by
than
dently,
soil.' Evi-
have
one's
a
pound
com-
teeth
by
THE
horses
or
Although
remark
of
under
labour
showers
in the
the
of
made
be
of
their
pass
shoe
By
of
there
it should
upon
to
hard
for the
the
buyer,
work
(of
any
and
in
case
; it would
kind)
be
is worth
this
had
been
not,
the
it
and
his feet
broken-in
do
not
therefore,pay
be
a
horse
price.
will
up
course,
grass
would
regulate
follow
Of
horse
the
own
deliberate
by
upon
he wanted
proper
transaction,
have
not
what
thus
their
worth.
the
the
without
simply
the
over
break
would
upon
article
curring
in-
in
soundness
It would
and
and
They
broken-in
action.
thing ;
unshod,
and
to
even
the
these
of
road,
them
would
that
roads,
Horses
grass.
shirk
play
understood
acquire showy
to
fair
be
be
their
intrinsic
its
spectacle.'
buyers thought
valuable
depreciate
should
inured
a
the
of
favour
in
would
doing, they
so
purchase
efforts to
'
to
if their
sin
seats
resting-place
a
the
of
as
their
them
heads.
the
then
and
front
receiver
sale.
for
not
they
; and
are
its
them
examination
difficulty
;
to
them
offer
state
do
park hacks, seeing
out
break
them
Let
same
finds
risks, if they shod
extra
them.
going
horses
the
in
authority
by
would
animals,
they
deprives
of
'
we
pressing necessity
very
often
But, anyhow^, breeders
concession
it up
place here,
circus
'
remainder
of
out
spectators
thus
and
enjoyment
pick
cannot
shoes, yet
filth that
of
eye,
any
with
continually favour
with
that
passant
cursed
being
rather
be
it may
eii
to
appear
horses
knee-high.
it
scatter
even
will
Unshod
front.
in
169
HACK.
PARK
safeguard
for immediate
'
A
thing
fetch,*and
so
170
HORSES
fancy prices
horses
class
As
rule, the
a
the
through
work
lies
which,
avowedly
One
which,
to
heads
their
tossing
find
they
Mr.
it
The
the teeth.
tends
This
abnormal
greater shock
the
stone, and
Mr.
Douglas
Such
the
fast
to
this
says
another
foundered
brings
The
"
tails
blows
from
a
up
the
road, cannot
as
already
and
feet, due
to
the
from
the
head
shod
to
not
observation.
much
the
down
come
hoofs
to
on
grief.
of concussion,
ground,
leg
tail
sarily
neces-
that
striking
is
being
he over-estimated.
splints, spavins, and
referred
more
various
so
effects
horse's
doubt
no
their
by
they
the
tinually
con-
are
higher, but
causes
evil
so
with
Horses
the
seen
their
others
which
feet
when
feet
results
common
be
action
'
:
iron
along
I have
as
the
on
fore
may
high
firm, hard
through
driven
as
of
of
bearing-rein
graceful action,
in
up
Their
the
extend
must
what
evils
and
their
heads,
their
raise
to
regularity,
the
of
to
throwing
with
of
the
prevents.
attached
excruciating pains, which
to
Fearnley
worn
screws,'
'
shoeing.
passing relief alternatelyfor
a
ten.'
upper
paving,
purpose
their
up
a
'
become
their
and
contrary,
rigidly
commands
the
give loftyaction, not
the
on
they
stone
over
horses,
justly denounce.
is
often
age
bearing-rein
shod
that
horses,
they get early
hardly lie ; yet at
would
largely
to
hacks.
for
that
accusation
comparatively early
a
park
carriage-horseof
work
hard
by
out
and
horse
of
the
long price is
ROADS.
continually being paid
are
especiallyladies'
Another
AND
elsewhere,
fatal
disease,
same
cause
"
bones,
ringas
well
known
concussion.
as
DOUGLAS'
COMPOUND
that
It is allowed
the
from
violent
horses
young
As
liable
remedy
a
or
this would
have
shoe
came
acceptance
hind
No
tells
a
At
the
it
'
to
are
rest
the
and
best,
but
the
easy
undrum,
con-
their
!
improvements
wanting
tailed
dove-
this
is in
we
Mr.
find
solves
which
one
into
innovations
no
of
at
concussion,
shoe.
that
us
make
be
one
of
Mayhew
?
screws
always
one
all
course,
partialremedy,
a
use.
farriers
crippled
would
that
and
shoes, fastened
the
of
only
why
he
that
The
face
into
when
interests
of
:
guttapercha
let
been
and
;
it
to
prevention
to
the
on
groove
never
roads,
wide-webbed
a
proposed
Douglas
and
most
proceeds
feet.'
mutilated
to
disease
hard
over
heavy
this
of
cause
exercise
are
with
combined
on
the
171
SHOE.
GUTTAPERCHA
own
'
ing
speak-
now
fore-foot
one
time, and
same
frequently, besides
alternatingthem
drooping their
heads
in despondency, when
stand.
at
a
they were
Here
which
of
is that
hiding
the
from
in
another
in
comes
their
Thus
better
when
Lancaster
when
If
for the
only
little
not
ignorant
an
sake
vivisection
opinion
on
either
of
the
the
of
Let
jpro
supposed
to
make
at
Kegent
the
lower
Street,
door
understood
con,
we
;
we
show
we
a
are
question
have
prefer
at
or
sitting.
that
the
on
animals
subject, but
is
should
we
a
Willis's
of
congress
decency,
cr
ings
suffercounter-
even
it be
and
of
in
up
thus
application
anti-vivdsection
consistency.
arguing
say,
infirmities
are
drawn
bearing-rein,
together,'and
the
the
they
Grate, or,
Rooms,
them
pulling
feet, by
irritation.
show
'
the
of
purpose
to
our
stand
of
own
in
172
HORSES
the
present
talk
find
no
custom
whilst
instance
upon
sides.
Those
both
to
docking
cannot
be
considered
who
that
argue
half-reclaimed
To
drive
such.
the
To
that
to
idolatry
the
of
ends
which
idol
fashion.'
*
than
of
sacrifice
thing
any-
more
remnant
as
of
of
will
but
harness;
we
whole
The
also
a
cruelty, and
prohibited
be
idea
of
cruelty
flowing, or
that
sore
day
some
that
visible
gets hit with
to
this
account.
be
that
under
the
to
seems
sores
inside
endeavour
on
to
punished
weaken, the
futile
a
cruelty
it will be
thus
in
is
the
foot
is
bad.
as
The
foot,
also
be
must
time
and
away,
is
himself
cuts
future
the
prevailing
blood
that
some
rasp
cutting,
practice
operation
cutting, is
idea
guinea-pig,
a
still little
up
name
horse
at
shell
avoid
quite
tail proves
columns
the
a
and
animals,
The
vertebral
horse's
a
;
advanced
be
can
of
with
can
vivisection
organs
are
offer
to
a
it
is rotten.
system
of
we
savages,
under
worship
as
that
obliges us
horses'
our
interior
so
horses,which
than
science
docking
than
more
tails of
other
and
against
are
the
that
argue
ground,
who
for
by investigating the
which
neutral
excuse
those
cannot
ROADS.
AND
that
as
of
rasping
unscientific
it
suggests
pecuniosus
'
'
says
altogether.'He
by shoeing
them
cutting
is the
it is the
shoe
is
has
with
nails
of
one
Charlier
of
to
"
meant
as
cure
The
that
'Imroots
wrong
this
tips.
It is not
cut
those
from
sprung
that
hoof,
it is unsuccessful.
his horses
cured
shoeing.
or
as
the
away
misfortune
The
by
anyone
cause
of
this that
may
see
174
HORSES
that
stand
he
them
believe
been
I
have
to
when
first
scale
off
cost
"100
in
J.
'
the
be
they
may
to
their
interest
for the
and
its
but
he
he
case
it
would
'
from
lockjaw
withdrawn,
was
that
against
the
I
knew
once
there
it which
of
into
way
nail
stated
inside
I
of
die
The
withdrawal
the
given
to
F.
K.
to
such
had
had
the
sensitive
all
round,
hillyroads,
What
are
See
equally
am
fair
no
horses
They
greatest success.
unshod
I
artilleryhorses
the
given
S.' 2
that
assured
rest
may
'
soon
been
grain,'
parts, to
there.
To
shoes
for
to
surgeon
the
on
made
remain
been
much
parallel case,
a
veterinary
had
and
men
coach-
been) through ill-grown teeth.
"
forced
which
might
lockjaw (which
'
a
in
years
introduced
written
getting pricked 'in shoeing.
been
This
horses,
which
N.,' ^ both
I have
that
cart-horse
'
to
with
met
the
late
horses, however
to
impending
of
not
but
individual.
innovation
any
in what
taken
mentions
a
of
they
would
stable-helpers),
in
obliged
am
have
itself
vices ;
approval.
or
appear
in, their
them
to
averse
notice
interest
to
beneficial
found
in the
much
so
them
reconcile
has
and
such
into
inherent
developing
(not
be
be
ROADS.
driven
being
to
for,
affection
has
is
AND
for
and
has
years
from
removed
Appendix
F.
the
has
trial
Woolwich,
the
Cape,
found
were
over
happened
at
at
indebted.
to go
and
He
been
ever
but
it has
with
the
better, when
roughest description
of
together.
Woolwich
has
all horses
before
at
'
See
that
been
shipping
Appendix
G.
SHOES
REMOVING
them
for
slipping
foundered,
surgeons
if
shod.
a
long
which
they
are
both
voyage,
and
about
FOR
prevent
it
is
well
particularly
SEA
A
to
them
hinder
them
from
known
liable
175
VOYAGE.
to
to
when
from
getting
veterinary
at
sea,
176
CHAPTER
'
*
THE
AND
RIDE
DRIYE
HORSES
CAB
H0E8E
A
CLASS
a
deux
SHOE
KINDS
VARIOUS
MULES"
SHOEING
CHARLIER
THE
OF
fins,the
is
and
it would
to
owner
saddle,
under
or
vice
hands
Omnibus,
van,
benefit
it
the
a
the
anyone
hold
of
This
the
that
and
horse
do
for
answer
harness
work,
shirk
to
they
excuse
every
shod,
un-
part of his
might
it
cab, and
in
the
least
their
such-like
cities,will perhaps
requiring)
in the
can
as
for
legs
with
horses,
the
be
of
things ;
they
have
obtained
which
and
Mr.
they
are
Flower.
feet
full
the
but
get
relief
indebted
A
would
perception that
last
receive
to
order
energetic agitation of
endowed
day,
strangely given
tramway,
change
of
is le cheval
one
on.
on
not
are
bearing-rein,
inspection
on
so
error
would
day they must,
some
from
to
of
not
THE
upon.
busily employed
(although
ON
capacities by going
himself
by laying
innovations
put their
an
People
versa.
and
his
be
but
is ridden
next,
within
argue
ON
MAYHEW
"
CALKS
FEARNLEY
extensively kept
in both
gain
CLiRK
that
one
but
ON
MR.
"
AND
SHOES.
driven, perhaps, the
could
TRAMWAY,
EEARNLEY
MULES
BRACY
"
VAN,
MR.
OF
that
of horse
OMNIBFS,
"
TRAMWAY
"
rNSClENTIFlC
"
XIX.
careful
convince
present
INDIFFERENCE
have
"who
have
than
seven
it
there
seen,
public through
their
Who
would
fellow
of
experience
May
we
the
on
say
'It
:
writer
'
suppose
Fortunately
firm
and
said
and
'
:
no
I shall
there
are
passant,
that
of
did
not
built
that
can
them,
one
A
too
ivant
jpropos
and
to
got along
change
not
the
Mede
many
or
like
because
everyone
does
Santa
Fe,' who
'
of
their
for the
now.'
Persian
him.
be
found
nowadays,
to know
any
this
man
gentle-
thirty-five
He
had
about
badly
and
were,
cause
thing
some-
him,
may
as
very
for inspection,
last
We
about
do
London
One
I
:
dogs
would
us
horses
them
see
says
their
enterprising
were
of
shoe
not
horses
from
is
that
a
his
unsound
things
the
only
corollaryto
The
went
one
I have
of either
any
this
question liberallyoffered
in
years,
of
he
those
of
as
'
inilliona
of
Dundreary,
and
did
present day.'
the
in
is,
ask, whence
to
most
probability,
cats, or, in all
and
one
;
ancestors
our
is
'
to that
and
;
Lord
propose
can
to
to
the
on
having put
profit? Echo
question
a
they
of
allowed
be
with
silent
boast
can
we
more
all appearance
and
Impecuniosus,'which
'
it, I
so
that
for
success
remained
understand
can
their
To
have
As
system
made
submitted
If
probably
solution
Press.
indifference
2
annually
no
?
such
arises
the
is there
enterprise
answers.
have
well
as
them.
intelligentfirm
Charlier
and
177
OWNERS.
least, one
at
the
to
years,
might almost
subject. Who
'
is,
stuck
HORSE
simply ruining
is
shoeing
of
system
OF
and
say,
en
shod
as
every
; but
he
better.
horses, we
will
lightly-limbedmules,
N
look
with
the
lightly-
hoofs
scarcely
at
178
those
than
bigger
ever
would
hard
pavement
stone
For
else.
find
out
brake
the
on
whole
of
is not
even
a
do
but
to
to
behind,
in
of
ghost
employed
the
?
they
up
had
upon
The
Calks
satisfactory
pavement.
back.
keep
them
by
a
carry,
have
for
not
They
nothing
shod, especially
are
with
calks
that
shoes
What
thus
animals
on
clumsy, ignorant, and
a
for
the
may
a
brake
brake,
help
prejudice to
upon
there
;
besides, calked!
have
will
to
bridle
and
substitution
Fearnley
for
manner,
only
are
to
they
so
they
Yet
tramcars
not, calks
Mr.
companies
weight
any
cars,
is there
roads, hut only with
Hear
the
are,
utterly unsuccessful
wheels.
load
or
collar,traces,
and
reason
a
equal mileage,
they keep
they
outrageous
long,
extra
are
horse,
a
powerful enough to stop
and
all,in the trajectof a
have
pole to
pulL
an
the
on
is
mules
concern,
that
beyond
than
it is done
as
which
feet; neither
few
they
nothing
upon
tramway
weight
no
any,
car,
run
a
all.
have
have
cannot
They
if
long,
and
mules
These
the
this
and
pieces
to
and
them
that
feed
more
hands,
for
ere
each
of
records
they
could
give
assume
legs
strong
are
lightnessof
would
may
and
requires
speed ;
load, and
we
since
"
hands
him
taking
will
mule
a
if
on
nm
which
the
in
lay
feet
their
batter
not
them
horses,
heavy
pull over
they
are,
feet, which
legs,and
frame,
their
they
as
that
those
"
only advantage
powerful ; and the
be expected from
and
the
donkeys
of
Light
tramways.
some
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
animal
an
do
and
so
upon
the animaVs
this
subject;
on
even
to
the
if
pull
country
limbs.
and
lay
FEARXLEY
he
what
heart
to
says
service
rendered
passing
of
for
the
state
his
under
the
evils
of
cutting
heels
or
quarters
other
them
them
than
he
who
of
The
there
is to
look
only
himself
either
they
years
the
although
either
a
quarter
that
the
the
not
not
What
'
of the
only
being
squabbles to keep
up
N
is
It
is
the
for
So
present.
Fearnley expressed
member
no
attention
a
loss
of
if
even
upon
it,
single member
and
shod.
They
have
aliens, and
2
but
there
bonds.
any
over
the
it
badly
them.
know
that
present Grovernment,
at
to
tape, which, slightas
possible that
been
a
the
of
coin
Government;
Mr.
bestowed
like
right
Fearnley,
the
is, perhaps,not
to
put
more
creed,
in
progress
book,
horse
difference
red
it is
or
has
to
or
property, and
no
Mr.
for
awful
and
there
that
through
no
his
read
with
ago
late
to
only mediately.
one
that
thus,
omits
who
be
is that
two
reduce
Horses,
same.
deface
to
owns
thinks
from
'
"
demeanour
mis-
a
iron
is still the
at, holds
hope
he
"
the
ought, at least, to
politicaleconomy.'
should
then
than
'
bars
national
are
has
also
of
writer
question
no
he
those
rudiments
the
out
mediately has
own
vulgar, but
frog
or
for the
need
'
is my
better
no
exceeding a defined
the certificate of a qualified
should, after examining the
property,
realm, which
the
soles
under
owning
is mine
universe
his
horse, explain the
deface
horse
be
rendering it
shoeing a horse to
one
veterinary surgeon,
man
could
of
thickness, except
every
There
of Parliament
any
thickness
the
"
179
ETC.
CALKS,
*
:
to
Act
an
ON
of
inconvenience
That
their
we
makes
political
and
our
180
HORSES
horses
the
may
to the
go
of
importance
But
must
we
the
from
if
hundreds
he
such,
of
each
'
for
What
it meant
make
they
'
the
heels
the
and
are
shod,
now
small-footed
feet
that
is most
backwards
but
The
mules
they
so
so
give
them
What
is to
with
The
?
indefensible
manner
to
their
lead
them
hinder
is
false
a
which
functions
of
than
sooner
early,by making
up
to
from
heavy shoeing,
in which
they
hapless, light-limbed,and
these
when
and
practice is
ground
and
do,
the
?
then,
purpose,
of
the
in reach
not
are
What
result
them
ridiculous
their
"
to
creatures,
their
mules;
cause
there
reason
tails?
come
generally
portunity
op-
the
;
begin
off
cut
heels
unnatural
wearing tips, to
as
the
hocks.
diseases.
If
?
behind
protect
to
why
another
a
a
well
iron,
is
of
ghost
by
case,
calk, as
Here
tain
con-
farriers
of
far
protrude
One
using
legs perform
fatigue and
to
?
serve
tread,' thus
What
shaven
intended
were
'
iron
to
below
their
the
see
heel.
the
the
over
soon
the
asking
close
to
direction
of
leaving
anything
visited
be
just
be
cannot
daily
if such
and,
mules
which
superfluous length
side
them
be
must
if we
stables
that
suppose
them
is it meant
have
those
from
away
see
economy.
interference
positively,we
should
we
for
is
get
have
not
big piece
from
it is done.'
surgeon;
he
a
how
we
of
should
had
their
knowing
mark
veterinary
without
'
fail to
they
national
immense
not
Without
yet.
because
crows,
an
Luckily, we may do
like,and show them
ROADS.
AND
at
then
to
Cockney
a
their
trot, to
upwards,
person
in
a
swing
manner
accustomed
half-brothers, who
to
have
182
People get
statistics
consumes
so
straw
same
hay
for fodder
of
and
barley
nutrition
of
their
in
thus
and
;
than
further
goes
they
which
of
and
country,
own
for
down
nothing
litter,neither
for
straw
chopped
(on paper)
substitute
they
mule
a
and
barley
oats, putting
get
that
shape
then
and
mules
of
pounds
weight
the
Spanish
(not always correct) that
many
diem,
per
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
the
in
oats
arrive
getting
for-
at
false
a
conclusion.
mule, when
A
his power,
horse
the
horse
in
a
horse
to
of
horses
than
in
a
the
about
have
build, than
So
much
shod
they
for
mules
There
on
pay
their
best
whether
on
get
service
not
has
in
in
the
being
superstructure, they
To
pavements.
them
have
worse,
shod
in
their
In
do.
more
We
shall
England
;
companies
chance, which
through
up
ration-and-
Spain.
that
able
make
many
tramways
where
maintain
to
the
are
the
useful
being
forget to
not
it is certain
away
out
he
will
with
point
his
would
course,
he
mules
feet, legs,and
battering
they
of
in this
meantime
finding
through
eat
fore,
is,there-
undoubtedly
a
of
must
it ; it
stretch
what
barley.
mules
is
can
on
the
horse's
throwing
their
days
army,
presently how
but
of
few
although,
Spanish
a-half
are
;
a
horse
a
compete
ever
not,
afterwards, which
for it
see
for
horse
the
could
sometimes
subsist
the
he
parts, because
many
can
do
to
Abroad, he
England.
in
able
he
whether
doubtful
as
accommodation,
be
to
work
same
stages with
over
than
more
the
doing
was
that
lighter in
could
stand
investigate this,
proportion
to
their
horses.
companies, societies,
and
all corpo-
UNSCIENTIFIC
bodies
rate
depended
Board
clear-headed
;
meetings
obtuse
their
heads,
some
of
look
them
stable
for
worth
what
creating
the
will
wages
and
it will
fetch
number
things good
it
of
humanity,
of form
interests.
such
have
pull,
doing
look
which
?
at
no
Let
They
hardest
run
take
he
If
better,
task
only
is
of
the
muscle,
stones.
and
Of
and
to
flat
on
scarcelyappreciable
every
should
ascents
how
he
a
; but
make
the
when
be
so
and
go
holder,
share-
a
that
persuaded
foothold
for
a
ground
or
see
the
them
help
to
to
be
ground,
they
course,
will
gain
it
trouble
for
that
seen
happen
sake
reason
slipping
the
how
question
a
is the
; does
from
think
largelyvested
have
back
making
(for the
of
what
We
them
only
also
again,
keep
to
anyone
them.
all the
their
load
this
parties ;
first
put
they
probably
is not
how
the
is
multiplying
interested
shoeing?
prevent
or
farriers
will
ask
will
them
and
;
is
This
we
riers.
far-
more
market
but
The
?
more
everything
"
by
"
are
for
and
farriers
people), but
extensive
mules
to
We
the
in
?
they
such
for
less work
animals
shareholders
the
about
for trade
then
but
is,
their
of
it would
striking against
for
demand
a
be
shake
However,
about
helpers,
more
cedents,
pre-
they
and
mules,
rush
to
most
demand
do.
to
into
had
now
farriers
more
meant
rushed
accommodation,
The
soon
they
as
have
they
if
as
do
test.
and
them,
receive
be
to
the
to
slowest
they always
;
they
thing
the
amongst
when
and
the
putting
are
have
individuals
all institutions
of
and
are
for
upon
183
MULES.
OF
SHOEING
they
start.
with
strain
sparks fly out
larger the
surface
of
184
HORSES
iron
slippery
opposed
they slip.
more
that
they
have
able
are
their
feet
toes, in
would
have
their
the
the
into
digging
shoe
this
over
quite
simplest
the
once
the
more
on
and
is, of
the
course,
at
put
this
say
be
their
hill,
a
home
go
to
he
late
but
the
know
and
no
does
on
more
is
entirely
does
all
not
that
Charlier,
an
been
experience
say
most
'is
the
at
common^
authority
advice
winds.
of their
opinion
professorsyet born,
has
it is the
;
have
Fearnley
he
"
as
found
they
that
all, the
of
knowledge
Mr.
; but
is about
that
then
and
article
that
to be cast
ask
down
ingenuity
an
"
as
scientific,
can
load
a
ground,
horses
He
horse
a
'
smallest
seems
farriers,and
to
as
most
the
They
were
watch
will
backing
or
bugbear
unshod
subjectas
direction
the
far
so
shoe.'
sense,
of.
hill,violently digging his
a
It is true
working
full
give it, except
can
People
"
of misdirected
oceans
unnecessary.
in
!
:
up
ground,
a
What
go
load
his heels into
invent
wasted
'
says
heavy
a
shoe
no
The
tip.
Fearnley
drawing
toes
but
if this
toes
these
by putting
in want
are
the
on
catch
them.
over
mules
start
that
out
they
their
the
As
let them
to
they slip
on
disposition;
Mr.
and
start
Charlier
stones, the
all.
at
found
what
frog is
not
start
order
flat
down
the
of
use
smooth
is
to
:
they
irregularities
their
the
to
this, they knowingly
discovered
tips of
ROADS.
only through encountering
the
joints between
paving-stones
It
the
in
resistance
AND
on
in this
People rely
and
stable-helpers
the
subject,which
about
they know
it than
that
all
all
parts
of
horse's
a
the
settles
shuts
'
like
at
another
he
on
the
in the
'
the
lately from
'
Farm
Joumal'
rule, that
the
what
is
of
affair
these
them
between
the
Thus,
to
the
at their
Mayhew
is
'
wit's end
'
are
of
shoe
No
"
the
position,
hoof.
may,
for
Some,
a
No
foot,
of
horse.'
no
authorities
professors who
the
give
can
of
iron
I
appear
which
curved,
cared
to
by enforcing
time,
were
is motion.
have
failed
on
question.
that
expansion
have
All, however,
to
'
than
indented
and
leave
they
affair,heedless
pieces
more
stand
under-
arrangements
grapple with
to
motion^
many
enumerate.
health
:
upon
raised,
of
; but
they tacitly
so
become
prejudice
says
dependent
There
have
general
a
farriers
and
small
a
more
them
foot
make
to
maxim,
worthies
these
shoeing,
almost
such
over
time-honoured
not
the
themselves,
ignorance
As
with
stable-helpersand
of
lumps
two
of
got
average
much
know
matter
treatment
than
better
it
the
for
Caractacus,'
the
of
to
nail
:
Unfortunately
'
:
really does.'
he
is
that
acknowledge
affect
to
than
horse
horses,
about
feature
said
Clark
head
a
other
People
This
prominent
too
he
and
ideas.
knowledge.'
of
This
with
Bracy
as
or
fair consideration
over
of
inquiries
want
Englishman's vanity
in
talking it
interchange
'
?
master,
thing
the
giving
'
ground,
shoe
a
the
with
make
to
a
said
it forms
about
he loses
this, because,
imply
blow
oif the
kept
once
an
do
to
would
when
when
of
likes
man
that
limp
obtain
to
No
be
investigation,and
owners
not
must
thing
instead
up,
and
do
he
does
why
else
foot
185
SHOES.
OF
MULTIFORMITY
THE
OX
MAYHEW
to
a
lowed,
holto
restore
change
mitigate
186
HORSES
evil
the
disorder
but
none
equally
stablemen
their
hoofs,
the
fruitless.'
the
or
present
believe
sway
the
long-run,
hoof
various
cannot
get
a
must
single
be
the
cure
suffers.
evidently
using
You
to
ROADS.
in
can,
which
under
Anointing
of
;
AND
word
wrested
stoppings,
the
present
of
this
from
are
race
;
fore
therethem.
187
CHAPTER
risr
QUESTION
IN
HORSE
LONDON
AS
NO
"
STAND
TREAT
CANNOT
AN
HARD
ONE
OF
ROADS
'
CLARK,
ING
WORK-
AN
UNSHOD
STABLE
FLOORS,
NICE
AS
THE
SOFT'
AND
HERTFORDSH
BODY
ORGANIC
BRACT
"
FOR
ROUGH
'
INORGANIC
HORSE
^SOMETHING
OF
FLINT
"
TJNSHOD
TOO
HARD,
IDE4.
UPON
AN
TO
ROADS
ON
ERRONEOUS
"
TO
'
FIELD
XENOPHON
"
ETC.
'
THE
XX.
'
RE
IF
IT
"
TOU
WEPvE
MISERABLE,
AN
COERCED,
'
SHOD
FOOT
HORN
IN
OF
BRACY
"
THE
BRACY
CLARK
ON
AND
THE
SHOD
CLARK
DIFFERENCE
UNSHOD
MILES
AND
OF
TO
GROWTH
HORSE
FAILURE
"
PRODUCE
OF
A
PERFECT
HORSESHOE.
The
*
Field,' in
following:
horse
his
without
be
use
week
the
London
unshod
on
readers
the
benefit
and
that
observer.
express
his
of
unshod
has
horse
excited
Although
it, he
seems
this
to
City
and
the
brown
a
brougham
:
luell-shaped.
method
of treatment,
necessary
to
fit
stones.
If
the
lines, perhaps he
communication
he
the
the
contains
full-sized
a
j earn
of time
these
more
drawing
1, 1880,
in
saw
length
see
one
I
interestingto
should
This
May
jparticularlysound
the
and
Last
shoes
feetseemed
It would
for
'
"
of
its issue
will
horse
a
owner
give
your
is at
least
experience.'
proves
that
going
sound
the
interest
gentleman
imply
his
there
in
of
does
wonder
our
at
not
midst,
least
one
directly
how
the
188
HORSES
horse
could
which
London,
shod
so
his
do
horses
work
the
are
the
iron
This
roads
the
neither
but
much
so
slipping about
injury
to
them
upon
striking through
concussion
'
of
leg (Douglas).
brings
there
"
of
cause
streets
paved
'
the
up
the
over
their
through
continually,and
ROADS.
AND
back
us
bad
are
no
the
hardest
the
to
again
ones
for
nor
the
unshod
an
of
question
horse
;
are
the
now
we
will
and
smooth
roughest
worst.
have
We
do
so
before
more
cited
fully.
He
injure
even
stable-floors
prevent damp, they
of
damp
acrid
Xenophon,
'
says
from
should
to
size ;
for
such
feet of
horses
outside
the
groomed,
throws
the
day
hoof
be
may
stones
on
of
hands,
two
on
round
may
these, he
if he
a
stony
he
horse
if
there
with
a
an
get
scattered
will
be
made
road.
A
being
rubbed
iron
much
to
travel
must
down,
same
part
also
or
so
the
the
fill
to
weight,
in
as
five
or
rim,
for
in
horse
is
person
a
four
pound
;
the
condition, and
feet,
about
were
is
the
excellent
and
in
ground
stones, large enough
spaces
not
which
and
to
The
To
have
hoof
firmness
upon
horse's
each
and
'
ground,
horse's
a
give
here
it
such
as
when
to
them.
the
The
should
the
in
upon
into
put
upon
full
stands
stand
stable-door,
surrounding
the
that
down
measures
similar
stable-floors
strengthen
to
serve
inserted
to
;
evidently implied.
being smooth, they
another,
one
hoofs
backwards.'
slope
is
irregular-shaped stones
close
Damp
:
naturally good
excrement
prevent them
but
of
that
horse
dition
con-
every
his
move
when
he
is
190
HORSES
of his
result
the
does
for
not
find
we
hard
style of writing
been
glad
doors
far
as
for
he
because
campaign,
at
they
which
laid
smoothness
even
argue
his
hard
an
'
daytime
clean
straw
a
the
horse
and
variable
floors,on
the
and
that
this
things
and
not
stones,
when
in
always get
of which
use
about
be
in
'
when
should
people
some
spread
best-appointed
the
sacrificed
of
presence
be
considered
to
established
the
hygiene
according
; but
over
This
comfortless.
and
or
must
upon
it ;
would
fashions
horses
something
the
Spain
difi'er
as
asked
prefer them
straw
swept by day,
never
out-of-
loose
stand
with
without
naked
In
with
have
is that
soft to
stable
looks
even
stress.
nice
and
have
floors
would
could
his
would
or
not
they
knocking
should
he
our
From
continually
prevailingfashions
or
with.
down
nowadays
Tastes
slovenliness.
customs
not
stable
also connected
that
are
odd
had
would
idea
conventionality.
stables
he
horses
great
so
work,
at
have
it in the
He
times
of the
not
are
his
encountered
something
have
is
that
universal
The
shifting
that
smooth
to
mire
he
barracks
him
Macadam,
extend
possible.
as
knew
benefit
the
would
soft
the
to
with
hands
much,
very
quote
deal
to
infer
may
steam-roller
a
one
any
who
roads
we
shake
to
that
pavior
a
taught
writers
which
experience,
question by stating that
artificial
modern
have
modern
the
of
out
and
practice
to
seem
ROADS.
AND
to
such
empty
of any
appearances
kind.
'
horses
Herts
could
'
seems
trot
unwilling
for
miles
to
believe
together over
of
that
unshod
roads
con-
FLINT
and
structed
the
go
and
than
would
be
thing, for evidently the horse should
anywhere and everywhere, and at
just what
This
they
continually being
are
half
His
reason.
found
journey
As
accept.
he
that
even
had
too
and
so
the
he
had
in
do,
to
that
his
when
feet.
the
pace
as
and
die
even
occasions, notwithstanding his
This
shoes.
that
have
to
seem
accident
have
led
sportsmen
amongst
their
chase
hunt
in
England
and
are
if
It
fair
play they certainly ought
not
only
score
powers,
of
on
account
who
play.
of
the
to
which
they might
have
the
distance,
has
horse
field upon
with
blessed
of
or
likely
most
in the
The
does
not
shoeing
deer
which
deer
we
(exceptthose
them
give
benefit
play, but
speed, activity, confidence,
of
stand
roads,
good
get the
fair
only
go
generally accepted
ride, at least)that
is
would
are
we
run,
being
captive animals
shoeing
a
He
practice
some
not
solitary deer
a
(those
have
should
Exmoor),
the
to
hunted.
be
to
to
have
horses
could
a
as
losing a shoe,
most
readily
or
many
do,
they
after
his
to
for
or
macadamised
upon
given out,
had
frequently
ran
able
forge to
in,
after
weeks
either
of
the
that
deer
of
moment's
a
sets
cut
end
an
be
so,
shod
cannot
writer) will
the
suffered
much
to
roads,
three
for
that
evidence
sent
and
such
over
regards
feet
its
upon
horses
frost
a
lamed
(including
everyone
shod
statement
much
very
a
when
made
alterations
other
is
do
can
comfort
not, there
notice.
no
They
flints.
ease
more
could
they
If
ones.
with
and
however,
with
repaired
191
ROADS.
also
and
on
fairer
of
on
it ;
the
staying
take
(theoretically)
192
ROADS.
AND
HOESES
their
should
make
advantage, and which
the
exciting. Perhaps people
more
then
would
they
Foxes
viewed.
even
the
of
aid
the
deer
to deal
with
do
deer
that
could
not
and
entirely
be
it
informed
has
Osmer
tells
become
more
does
cover
the
that
and
in these
on
the
has
and
for
hard
a
over^
after
many
Fair
is
be
to
appear
determined
'
sharp
that
parts ?
the
must
still
horses
Where
brittle crust, and
the
from
more
they
harm
hard
to
sole
not
they get
sometimes
objects
be
never
shoe
than
the
edge
the
by
be
cut
get
on
and
our
are
cut
;
that
continually
do
sole
strong that
all
if the
or
not
natural
and
considered
as
stones
fear
exposed
frog
mutilated
does
frog
hard
thereby
'
Mr.
that
sole
Herts
sharp flints,
the
so
all feet
either
sole,and,
the
them,
that
obdurate
Now,
those
says
sensible
us
pared.
of
Burdett
protects the
not
not
who
that
us
impenetrable,
is almost
do
everyone
regards
as
Colonel
them.
'
fit
'
or
cited
require shoeing ?
sense
to
do
convinced.
However,
Douglas
horses
so
we
occasion
forward
brought
common
necessary
yet
;
prostrated by simple
be
that
evidence
as
to
he
out
with-
hospital. The
the
condition,
them
rougher ground
into
on
up
been
have
Should
argument
not
in
been
must
exertion.
years
knocked
so
have
going
or
slipper,and
or
people imagine
their
of
huntsmen
sock
a
that
all,
at
some
and
that
most
about
have
and
run,
than
got
as
Exmoor
on
much
hear
not
hounds
much
so
down
run
all
afraid
are
stoutly,and
run
both
outrun
to
manage
be
never
chase
and
the
knife,
reaching
by
flints
crippled
outer
is
rim
deprived
be
flints
in
they
do
exposed to the
question to a
want
them
hurt
;
they
enough.
minds,
no;
when
and
or,
frog and
be
Both
must,
these
of
in
fact,
sole
get
fore,
there-
the
of
with
met
broken
great degree, although
very
unless
the
stone
a
fixed
gets
People ought
sole.
not
such
see
But
the
always
simple facts pointed out to
them
daily, and
they are patent
of their
people close the doors
have
to
iron,
sharp points
and
have
inequalitiesto
them
shoe
the
between
to
road.
every
not
with
attrition,whilst
of all
almost
parts which
protected
occasionallyfrom
some
on
and
covered
193
PROTECTED.
ENTIRELY
sole,preciselythose
of the
been
NEVER
IS
FROG
THE
they
incapacitatedthe
have
outer
performing its natiu'al functions,
they point triumphantly to it, as if the mischief
their own
not
were
Certainly,no
bringing about.
of the foot from
rim
one
must
to
put the
to
tear
animal
to
full work
Not
only
For
the
results
or
farther.
Here
may
best
been
one
have
even
You
on
invited
manner
veterinary
with
the
act
to
warned
tips if
you
will, anyhow, have
be
been
argument
ordinary
full-sized
possible, even
surgeon
to
in favour
0
of
put
inspected by
found,
be
shoe
a
and
one
pended
sus-
mended.
recom-
satisfied
are
made
thus
against
cannot
tips has
able
wards.
after-
they give you, for months
altogether,if you are afraid
is another
an
of
use
be
and
five minutes
but
Keep
choose,
no
labour, the
from
with
has
in
shoes
they have been
hardworking horses, that
unreasonably,
it.
off the
expect
if you
to
vast
go
provement
im-
tips. You
in the
on
the
who
best
will
194
AND
HORSES
all
forbid
will
and
carving
if it has
(even
the
for which
then
and
shod
foot and
will
and
England, but if
the frog, you
examine
Now,
result
of
out
for
will
you
as
already
one
of
the
his
will
just
lift up
see
that
it is semi-
will
the
hardly regard
careless
a
you
is
be
fear),
no
which
then
will
horse
ground
flints,
have
will
get frog pressure,
your
sole,
Hertfordshire
the
over
go
and
to the
down
comes
in
cloven.
the
frog
bars
frog
veterinary surgeon
you
something,
best
to
the
of
away
the
that
see
ROADS.
construction,
cleft
as
should
you
you
could
yourselfwhat it is there for, and then
hardly help arriving at the conclusion
that
it
to
reason
do
was
have
obtained
expansion
"
has
This
'
says
:
"
when
doing
nails
on
give
the
only
after
each
side
that
to
has
been
use
as
as
you
All
answered;
it.
You
you
feel
determine
Mayhew
kinds
be
of
risk
and
over
nervous
on
so
a
mended
recom-
drawn,
dodges
the
are
you
rigid
hindermost
two
should
are
you
he
and
if it
as
into
view, but
same
has
over
Clark.
foot
the
third
its
altogether.
this,
shoe
the
the
with
proven
long
when
try
journey,
a
of
of
aware
relief.
horse
one
advised
but
that,
but
just what
flexible
the
for
organic body
this is
You
with
away
an
a
also
was
proposed
been
turn
you
Hope
one.
treat
cannot
inorganic one,' but
an
were
You
?
attrition
by Bracy
expounded
been
do
you
"
shoe
full
mutilation,
from
frog by abstaining
necessity
and
pressure
some
a
then
Why
spread.
to
with
together
them
lock
you
heels
the
allow
tip
to
have
is the
earnestly
absolutely nothing,
again.
about
getting
Keep
leaving
rid
up
as
its
it off ;
entirely of
CLARK
BRkCY
what
Clark
Bracy
foot,'and
the
unknown,
are
the
chip
the
Hear
of
'
the
horn
consider
To
Clark
in the
the
all
from
entirely,and
wall,
demand
of nature
shod,
it loses
many
horses
each
have
would
for
it.'
It
so
grow
asked
these
the
thin
after
be
slices
the
times
had
there
attrition
by
uses
never
be
to
shod
seen.
it up
as
when
in
a
so, and
the
or
in
in
a
five
horn
demand
horn
it may
heels
it grows,
as
but,
that
much
been
On
;
removed
four
as
"
2
a
be
can
.
is
degree
a
require rasping
o
of
there
that
fast
foot
state
ground
some
do
the
dismiss
pure
of
twenty
allowed
tc
the
only
"
.
interval
doubted
when
it is
of
where
great
:
defence.
any
to
so
produced
may
parts
in
a
rate
horse
rapidly, as
grows
will
the
must
in
hoof,
exposed
time
been
fast
where
quarters
so
few
a
foot,we
without
this power
which
in
purposes
of
and
shoeing,
weeks,
and
its wear^
for
of
beauty
animal
rasped
expected.
unshod
foot
crust,
or
state
at
his
be
and
the
to
nail-holes
miserable, coerced,
consider
using
nature,
The
the
views
our
them
difference
the
may
remedied
or
shod
of
singular construction
The
may
the
horn
down
grown
keep
'
toe.'
on
the
brittle, and
to
than
man,
horse-
a
of shoes
that
mind
prevented
advice
the
of
expense
have
be
to
sooner
of
in
nail-holes
at
Bracy
growth
heaven
somewhat
is
19o
FOOT.
miserable, coerced, shod
bear
Osmer's
much
out
UNSHOD
seventh
still be
short
and
grow
that
This
by following
the
'
must
you
ground.
AND
bother, anxiety, and
until
away
SHOD
calls
will
toe
round
THE
entering
where
at
ON
can
be
and
and
fact,they
196
HORSES
AND
ROADS.
-
the
down
keep
needed
therefore,
to
the
did
the
:
the
the
what
does
of the
foot
this
has
delegated
for
will
suited
a
to
the
this.'
Mayhew
could
alone
in
its
to
old
:
the
cure
"
'A
to
home
Fearnley
and
never
and
says,
will.
but
one
which
of.
Now,
Neither
to
more
Creator
the
horse's
task
man
sticklers
stoutest
such
to
by
another
never
which
and
the
and
evils caused
invented
support
and
of
return
they
requirements,
Still,after expressing himself
*-went
which
Almighty
the
plans
which
bringing
to
him
imparting
subscribing
wrote
the
he
ments.
argu-
more
?
to
He
upon
given him,
Surely
remedy.
from
shrink
horse
intellect
puny
of
infallibility
the
the
that
best
life
by Miles,
necessity
amount
failed
had
his
own
on
objection
has
has
have
than
his
of
later
is the
declaration
a
form
devising
force
their
argument
Universe
the
rivalled
Nature
is,
rasp
more
any
plan entirely deprives
my
than
less
was
affording
than
heels
say
nor
for
exist
to
task,
fall
shoe
to
of
part
principal argument
the
of
suffice
point.
best
the
ground
heels
they
of
"
uninformed
affirm
at
The
'
wrote
he
this
of
the
that
All
case
perfect horseshoe.
a
this
in
seeing
in
In
who
producing
succeed
not
the
not
and
that
upon
dedicated
of
task
will
it.
remove
the
in
growth,
agreed
are
Clark
succeeded
in
to
experience
Bracy
attrition
exuberant
an
But
altogether.
different, for
it is
toe
the
alone
let
be
must
old
a
prejudices
doctrine
perfect
as
freedom
unnatural
straint,^
re-
thus, Mayhew
^hoe,'
came
as
into
Mr.
use,
198
ROADS.
AND
HOESES
CHAPTEK
METHOD
ORDINAKT
of
this so-called
of
for
shod
even
which
all to
and
fine
In
wood
affect
the
horse
can
and
man'
the
the
better
either
it
The
produce
a
the
same
wood
granite
or
them
each
amount
of
rain.
with
carts
will
it will
not
the
unshod
weather
any
defies
road
duced
pro-
when
but
successfully than
more
Almighty
some
holding surface,
granite slippery,when
with
deal
In
consistency
it; supposing
in
prevail,
greasiness is
;
and
slipperinessdisappears,
a
the
caused
times,
called).
reduce
to
received
IN
HOESES
mist
rain
But
to
is
and
of
asphalte.
one.
fog
beginning
to
PAEENTS
has
certain
weather, watering
summer
make
shod
have
At
of
horses, than
THE
that
surface
state
becomes
THE
STATISTICS
OF
state
contiguous
are
BY
UJGS
when
grease,
TO
PEENCH
"
IT
QUESTION.
road
fallen
asphalte
then
and
of
has
rain
sufficient
AND
same
the
during
FEET
this
the
weathers
SHOEING
controversy.
(as
gets greasy
BY
as
EEGARD
TEANSMTSSION
NATIONAL
of
days, such
certain
other
A
class
a
deal
great
THE
COXCEEKIXG
WITH
SHOEING
SHOEING,
is
AsPHALTE
it
OF
AEMY"
THE
OF
DISEASES
TO
AS
OPINIOITS
EEIGNS
PEODTFCED
DISEASES
OF
on
THAT
DISSATISFACTION
"
a
DIFFEPvENT
AND
PAYING,
ASPHALTE
of
'
the
any
puny
kind
so
tlie
intellect
that
can
THE
the
harm
and
that
which
foot
ON
PUBLIC
has
He
omnipotence
with
designed
with
grapple
to
possibly spring
can
199
ASPHALTE.
the
on
up
his omniscience
everything
surface
the
of
earth.
Modern
writers
the
on
horse
(asphalte
been
for
introduction)have
significantly enough, much
modern
virtues
defects
or
all
foot
them
of
the
was
under
deal
to
one
June
1878,
in
Asphalte pavement
we
briefly mentioned
volunteered
of these
to
it
the
to
it ;
even
unshod
successfully
complained
of."
Mr.
F.
Grerard
requests the
the
Cobb,
society
unparalleled
to
perform
that
matter,
I
"
If
would
with
any
able
respect-
mitigating
and
the
a
its
the
question entirely
in
all its bearings,
what
incur
the
granite) for
with
comfort
Society
venture
evil
to
ledged
acknow-
own
horse,
gladly
daily tasks."
my
the
voluntary effort,
view, hut
were
the
on
ease
approve
(which, after all,is
downfall
C. A.
not
out
carry
of
would
I
S. P.
As
do
this
regard
to
if I
exposed
to
to
know,
occasional
am
"
E.
"
Trinity College,Cambridge,
of
point
viz., that
of
its trial.
the
unite
purpose
horse^s
I
to
Eespecting
objects,and
from
and
"
read:
we
on
who
those
assist
be
week,
last
the
for
me
the
with
to
appears
pavements,
agency
I
that
contemporary
one
*
say,
at
the
all circumstances.
In
has
looked
ignorant
were
proper
they
a
and
to
as
material, according
which
lightsunder
different
when
this
of
only
time,
some
variance
at
is
Mr.
meddles
should
I
risk
of
less than
the
sake
which
suggest that
what
of
the
it enables
Cobb
at
an
all
also
gests
sug-
in
this
its efforts
200
would
exert
a
suggested
another
the
the
All
'
:
"
all
proprietors,
Falls
more
frequent
other
kind
with
fractures
of
smooth
ice.
as
of Paris.
The
London,
where
Cheapside
pelvis
It is
of Paris
climate
five
in
asphaltehas
of
dirty,
least
the
although
and
it
who
be
hoped
that
for
natural
strong
the
Society
will find
higher
With
for the
than
the
invited
Prevention
But
to
almost
to the
the
climate
climate
fog
least
of
the
tunately,
Unforinterests
noisy,
their
the
pavements,
it
the
suits
It is
shortly
be
legislation,and
of
of
makes
City rates.
will
as
Cruelty
to
too
that
Animals
righteous zeal
of
a
costermongers.'
last
heartily agree.
being
selfish
subjects for
some
class
but
serious
a
the vested
public opinion
meet
surgeons
horses,
pay
any
kind
cleaned
the
tortures
only
of
is the
easily
most
respectabletradesmen
to
It
City legislators.
the
by
on
accidents.
its side
on
tested
pro-
not
are
greasy
of
have
surface
a
long chapter
one
omnibus
were
is not
minutes
following
than
appeal
to
on
ribs, which
a
on
mistake
a
and
Strains
starting loads
on,
created
character
Veterinary
the
of
asphalte
graver
pavement.
in
created
a
unknown.
almost
before
of
but
cruelties
and
on
later
the
proprietors
dangers
asphalte pavement.
the
give
we
van
shoeing
communication
proprietors,all
railway
of
Eight days
which
cab
the
against
'
if it induced
system
published a
subject, from
extract
Charlier
Stevens."
contemporary
same
are
the
adopt
Mr.
by
beneficence
extended
more
to
owners
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
part
the
of
the
Society
last
in
paragraph
question,
investigatethe question
of
we
after
shoeing,
the
on
both
them
of
the
being
at
inactivity.'
The
such
in
of
favour
in
other
best
of
road
asked
production
of
bring
its
about
much
This
the
it
watches
horses.
Yet
the
we
are
it would
which
would
comfort
and
two-fold
in
of this
comforts
economy
a
Society
makes
necessary,
offer
is to
thus
of
asphalte
and
more
or
to treat
who
intelligence,because
improvement
as
part.
the
economies
modem
another
render
on
the
aid
in
'masterly
a
which
that
for
all,except
abandon
to
the
"
moved
exponents
over
forth
sets
matters,
other
incompetent
two
ways
animal
an
has
"
maintained
last of the
opposite
the
on
scope
itself
201
ROADS.
roads
its
all, it has
question
invoke
of
within
Feeling
direction.
neither
that
and
hand,
one
ASPHALTED
OF
INCREASE
GENERAL
opposition
to
progress.
does
Asphalte, however, is not yet suppressed ;
within
read
it appear
likely to be, since we
fortnight
last
that
'
the
of
carriage-ways
the
London
Street, Abchurch
Wall, Bucklersbury, Cannon
nor
Lane,
Trump Street, the north
(Cripplegate),
side of St. Paul's Churchyard, Long Lane, Broadway
and
Philpot Lane, are to be forthwith
(Blackfriars),
Castle
Street
'
asphalted
the
"
Science
being signed.
contracts
and
be
cannot
progress
put
down
by
retard
much
the latter may
old-fogyism,'however
them.
Asphalte will ultimately supersede, in towns,
'
both
wood
and
could
granite ;
forward
commercial
benefit
demonstrate
that
their
if
unshod
the
and
this
end
to
they
had
the
horses
productions, by using
asphalting
their
would
unshod
panies
com-
immense
intelligenceto
not
horses
slip on
them-
202
their
avoid
the
to
that
other
the
here
charge
and
the
only
they get
all
they want,
have
do
so
and
conflicting advice,
All
it.
been
to
applied
their
what
other
imable
societies
with
discern
to
to
attention
muddled
they get
are
defect
inventions
turn
them
because
do,
to
remedy
for
Let
?
encournge-
asphalte
upon
one,
unable
are
held
them
upon
out
could
;
away
have
they
surface.
ivrong
thrown
be
who
any
slipping
'
tip
pavements
without
and
'
inventors
to
ment
of
heard
have
We
this
Will
selves.
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
for
themselves.
have
We
the
and
best
which
"
is that
upshot
freshly spread,
select
few
a
with
days
other
hand,
upon
grass
mistake.
to
senses
would
had
just
had
'
has
fields
roads.
must
then
this
are
uphold
be
some
laid
we
that
the
exercise
down,
hard
on
as
it
at
first
be
that
to
him,
day they
The
much
Santa
in the
used
with
often
'
worked
so
a
weather,
and
roads.
depends
him
pasture
account.
variance
at
from
hard,
this
the
great
as
summer
gradually
be
On
by working
horses
should
horses
first,and
In
on
on
them
over
almost
dry
and
dry
that
advised
daily get
cannot
becomes
in
get tips put
to
at
that
known
tender-footed
ground
be
would
roads
feet
his
would
shod.
were
his
harden
is well
It
have
they
soft
if he
the
of
flints,
travel
to
;
broken
right
that
him
than
try to
or
become
if the
Fe
Loose,
horse
a
enable
comfort
more
will
for
all roads
afraid
most
are
his
in
man
of
pulled off; although judicious treatment
shoes
in
no
trial
a
as
people
hardest.
the
are
treated
believe,
we
now,
hard
and
should
distance
on
the
'
THE
NOT
IS
IT
offered
advice
that
the
and
any,
as
the
than
other
any
he
Unfortunately,
doing
that
and
to
with
away
the
less
then
he
dimension,
it
there
was
the
imparted
had
the
it.
put
of
point
went
he
until
he
his
of
sufficient
not
to
he
better
result
in fewer
the
altogether; but
every
that
public
a
able
at
in
of
thing
been
arrive
not
iron
it down
cutting
did
hurts, the
that
whole
has
writer
good
as
Impecuniosus,'
o^oad
the
gist of
'
The
poco.
is about
of
the
not
tan
'
Officer
remark
excellent
horse,'contains
words
Cavalry
a
shoe, and
it is the
'
'
by
203
intelligencealone
tanto, ni
degrees. Ni
the
decide
hoof:
the
of
HORSE.'
THE
HURTS
THAT
of brittleness
state
can
ROAD
on
found
got
on
;
experience
capacity
to
take
it in.
The
reliance
There
simple
more
horsey public
a
is
for it.
the
of
invention
Nature
construction
all
hopes
Mother
detect
to
travel
Nature
her
score
on
the
the
errors
right
only
of
side.
'
of
more
give
may
thing
and
can
failed
be
is
asked
be
to
track
back-
of weeks
thrift
to
up
meet
the
on
inversion
and
question
improving
they
travel
waiting
admirably
so
best
where
The
the
a
back-track,'
centuries;
What
is
the
and
point
finger-post.
necessitates
unfold
the
which
Everyone
the
on
at
;
it is
idea
will
superseded
when
very
ludicrous.
this
on
the
make
to
as
its
is
man,
in
use
no
some
which
up,
not, be
will
and
living structure,
a
constructed
is
less
in them.
that
hope
spring
There
of
place
to
latent
a
may
cannot,
intellect
puny
treating
done
is inclined
all difficulties.
conquer
offered, the
means
always existing
extra-scientific
by
the
to
always
for ?
204
perhaps, appear
It may,
be
of
in
the
the
in
still
as
has
ever
receive
of
it
for
it is
Horse"
the
fully
; but
He
nails
failed
not
in
even
which
as
will
The
is
their
used
now,
as
do
present
date,
"Miles
a
or
Mr.
in
and
Bowley.'
at
seeking
was
expansion.
with
number
because
; and
it
of
is far
on
Mr.
more
shoe.
the
fastening on
hand,
he
because
excessive
with
and
motion
semi-blinded
the
better
and
the
question,
half-measure
no
read
was
stated,
ing
Shoe-
the
on
last),
at
Mynors,
on
by
sixpenny pamphlet
ready-made,
attention
(go
Kobert
Mr.
establishinghis system,
much
question
the
reduce
to
at
year
resulting from
grasp
tried
then,
as
account.
of
he
that
fact
thing
same
committee,
others, blinded,
all
in
the
been
benefits
not
iron
"
before
did
universally
sixpenny pamphlet,
has
the
of
system
to
Gribbs, seconded
secure
like
of
as
the
it down
from
letter
a
it is
least, give them
at
present
into
Journal
"
to
was,
bring
as
Brandreth
Miles,
He
or
a
it
as
of
portion
the
of
5
'
world
shoeing
that
republication of
the
to
Sir
only
that
horsey
Koyal Agricultural Society
May
itself
called
the
the
century,
have
from
of
held
proofs
is not
meeting
to
had
present day
deduced
suggesting
of
certain
be
reported
referred
of
proof
the
at
resolves
of the
subject
to
a
always
the
a
Another
England,
back
that
ideas, and,
new
shoeing followed
satisfactory,is
council
that
and
consideration.
a
the
on
cheap
has
his remarks
Journal,'
uneasy
been,
to
open
Farm
'
be too
to
some
which
correspondence
forth
is
to
writer, however,
The
use.
any
ROADS.
AND
HORSES
it
the
was
society
this
very
Stevens,
worthy
patronage, especiallywhen
we
206
HORSES
other
or
chosen
be
should
perfect
ROADS.
AND
the
for
there
If
ones.
anything superfluous, we
itself in
show
will
the
in
generally
spot where
exhibited
dam
justly ascribed
leave
off
such
kinds
The
like
a
shoeing
of
and
reduce
ossification.
of
'
Manx
there
until
another
reproduce
"vsTiter
a
good sheep dog
only
tails
the
if he
into
the
Now-a-days
a
colley and
colley
to
a
'
good
tail is
an
the
poodle
;
Men
mostly
So
also
do
'
law
poodle.
in
both
neither
be
would
halfpence
where.
any-
travel,
with
climes,
books,
times.'
their tails in their
save
strictlyspeaking, they
did.
stump
to
same
so, that
three
principleswith
And
they
'
a
bring
to
the
to
much
change
with
Tenets
horses
with
change
able
obtain-
important point
a
the
tail,or
a
the
regard
fetch
or
of
condemned
were
so
like.'
tail to
a
dared
memory,
with
show
who
them
of
kittens,
be
to
without
those
his
Manners
Entire
supposed
poodle possessing
nor
admitted
memory
Within
France
in
good
the
with
world
the
of all
tails
Within
All
;
produced only
was
pupped
are
cause
produces
island
was
the
or
prevalence
the
been
one.
horse-pond.
held
the
had
for
apology
curt
one.
sire
upon
left
not
was
Like
it
foal,and
principal
the
cats
by persistentlyamputating
the
their
as
breed
tailless
the
Spavins, "c.,
defect.
you
that
aware
in
either
shoeing
to
be
other
or
reproducing
anything wanting
is
must
way
some
of
purpose
would
many
not
mares
be
;
entirety ;
entire
but
if
unless
we
were
HORSESHOEING
fall
to
the
into
parents,
diminished
a
will
ascribed
reappear
likewise.
will
(which
of
and
wheels,
"natural
shoe
it is
the
by Nature,
it
like
millions
are
we
that
often
the
be
to
be
horse's
evident
very
have
ends
two
could
we
authority
of
is
upon
obliged, through
many
a
the
large
of
which
short
are
thing
horse
a
self.
stop him-
as
very
lives
ment
improve-
fact
is
that
hinge, because
of
our
of hideous
mares,
that
that much
if any
real
such.
writers
and
one,
nation
number
to
previous
this
is
double
a
that
the
The
introduced.
annually hang
brutes,
the
for
It
a
contrary
it offers
does
is
rightly balanced
national
a
shape
resistance
in the
been
see
on
frog
to offer
he
worn
play.
reason
only
store
fair
than
ahead
to go
'
the
The
foot.
thus
army
brake
in
resistance
and
England
for
the
of
have
offer
in
care
scientific)
most
use
feet and
common-sense
substitution
semi-cloven,
import weekly
bred
minus
in their
a
ploughshare
To
the
is in
can
the
cast
so
the
must
a
shoeing question
economy
to
if
have
We
the
but
aid
more
Yet
the
for the
resistance,
needs
If
that
take
the
by
on
in front
direction
with
meeting
a
us
clumsy
a
direction.
one
horses
is
j^l^^s
were
be
to
feet
calk,
pointed
Let
out
not
calked
a
of
presumable
shown
horses
legs.'
turn
at
have
cast
horses'
our
both
fail is in their
most
statistics
and
feet
out
is
The
lately stated
fifths of all
two-
in
horses
was
French
that
breed
a
of
shoeing.
our
It
those
vertebrae.
of
offspring,it
Where
of
number
to
legs.
get
soon
207
QUESTION,
docking
of
in the
reappears
plus
habit
should
we
NATIONAL
A
horses,
foreign-
which,
when
208
HORSES
have
they
in
sold
are
had
enough
in the
the
unshod,
stone
pavements,
See
recent
then
and
press,
there
is
state,
or
wide
else
themselves
they
be
give
us
The
attendance
adept,
These
think
enough
road.
for
a
has
not
are
revulsion, although
vouchers
their
which
that
in
them
off
in this
them,
to
on
to
suppose
this
and
'
as
is one,
'
dark
as
has
been
which
he
of
by frequent
out
dream
of
putting
allowed
is
to
such
an
been
;
we
but
said
we
are
inclined
on
the
present
bring
can
may,
not
readers
the
'
first
a
sanguine enough
will
seven
by pushing
prolonged
be
have
months'
Farm
about
stage
to
casion,
oc-
upon
believe
to
sudden
a
perhaps, have helped
sufficientlyalive
nearly
subject
be
we
some
attention
of
could
that
movement
found
regard strictlyas
we
moment
that
perceived
shoes
farrier
quotations
We
have
feet.
and
the
have
brutalities, in
arguments
which
are
(or ignorant) acquirers
the
writings
that
sellers
keeping
until
their
upon
The
are
sales) never
those
exercise
feet.
dodge,
these
work
to
they
(as we
at
are
Horse-dealers
e\ery
innocent
animals
them
that
always
clap
to
see
that
to
value.
and
go
horses
showing
in
would
up
others,
can.
these
hind
awake
enough
fictitious
to
Eepository
foreign
the
on
they
a
amongst
of
advantage
some
them
give
Horse
sale
a
least
at
evidently
the
daily
Northern
Friday
every
course
London
lie.
At
a
of
ROADS.
foal by transport companies.
advertisements
the
AND
We
arrested.
been
to
able
go
weekly
Journal,'
and
to
on
have
keep
through
reading
this
is
a
on
en-
It
couraging.
the
'
still
viz.,
glad
too
light
some
obscurity,
still
the
far
may
great
ahead
fall
extent
of
that
the
of
'
his
for
this
its
ruck,'
criticism.
having
veiled
ideas
was
'
still
appeared.
open
is
writing
he,
which
He
be
only
that
and
living,
in
gentleman
active-minded
the
might
should
We
of
out
which
hitherto
subject
foot.'
original
'
under
a
writing
some
far
not
was
was,
style,'
horse's
land
the
containing
on
the
learn
to
in
for
craved
follow-my-leader
'ordinary
throw
is
he
Impecuniosus,'
'
he
as
209
NEW.
that
prove
enterprising
when
wrong
to
seems
and
practical
SOMETHING
FOR
DESIRE
EXISTING
being
to
chargeable
so
receive,
to
a
210
APPENDICES.
Appendix
A.
Horse-Shoeing
(LETTER
I
'
Lance
so
strongly
smith's
did
wished
the
on
they
with
and
arrived
again
down
broken
must
say,
to
appears
be
am
so
has
far
convinced
horses
he
if
certainly
went
away
and
naturally
that,
after
that
all
in
firm
rather
this
goes
he
was
and
his
tender
correct
shall
way
have
on
put
state,
down
in the
had
not
shod.
I
this
degree, and
of
I
road
a
tender, but
soles
I
so
rode
horse
the
the
well,
do
over
I
see
what
something
great
is the
him
would
after
a
flat
and
on,
I
the
to
abominable
was
home
way
wearing
He
there
smith
the
hard
days
quite surprised
was
on
Two
told
he
shoes,
down
miles,
simply
a
^Free
wished, and
again, ten
in
safe.
however,
surprising how
got.
home
the
he
and
system,
entire
never
if I
on
of
Seeing
put
I
they
them
put
all
convince
to
said
metal
new
of
them
I arrived
and
I rode
covered
he
When
would
were.
horse-shoeing.
off)to get
miles
laughed,
roads, but
letters
and, accordingly,rode
properly.
; he
of
the
using tips in place
advised
shop (ten
it
interest
subject
tiy them,
to
ABERLORNA.)
OF
great
the
upon
resolved
he
with
read
HAVE
.
it is
have
feet
feet.
of
I
ing
shoe-
all
the
211
APPENDICES.
the
done
rest
way.
strongly to applying
a
hot
a
prize essay
from
extracts
two
or
Free
'
same
'
Lance
shoe, and
objects very
I will
just give
by George
one
Armitage,
M.R.C.Y.S.
cold, which
cold
shoes.
and
that
heated, it
foot, and
are
applied the
be
caused
are
remains
siu'faces
othei*,they
number
that
the
into
matter
the
of
use
fitted to the
The
above
believe
done
when
in
a
while
shoes
the
cold
hot
more
shoe, in other
extracts
carried
by ignorant
bad
the
them,
the
on
are
trary,
con-
e^ch
to
act
inequalities
In
practice, the
method
of
than
that
fitting
fiftytimes,
all who
calm
as
have
gone
investigation
the
objection
too
far
"
the
foot
words.'
to
appear
ever
is
care
fittingis only injurious to
when
feet
the
to
surfaces
relation
all
as
evident
in
the
between
up
position
become
hot
altered,
adoption, as
Two
any
'
ill effects
no
its
supported by
carefully.' If a little
tender
and
weak
their
alter
due
AVhen,
bear
not
can
itself
when
set
be
can
it would
made,
were
is
easy.
under
shoes
executed
those
exceeds
and
against
lost
of
do
shoe,
When
"
bed
the
be
must
securely.
so
man
away.
"
by
easilyseparated,
are
levei-s
number
foot
to
shoes
injured by it, and
benefited
separation not
those
many
No
to
never
more
on
fittingthe
foot
result
to
correspond, friction
to
their
and
caused
is found
feet
Good
always
shoe
but
engendered.
might frequently be
feet
fitting the
is
can
injury
no
exercised.
to
they
i.e.
"
accomplished by tearing it
is
is
shoe
If
shoeing
i*ather
means
inconvenience
much
so
cold
of
result
*Asa
result
me
from
who
men,
very
hot
should
sensible, and
shoeing,except
be
anywhere
shoeing-foi'ge.
Aberlor":a.
p
2
I
212
APPENDICES.
B.
Appendix
Horse-Shoeing
Sir,
of
'
I have
"
have
and
like
doubt
no
do
to
the
'
on
custom,
admit
of
allow
the
have, of
throw
how
us
'
and
farming
the
'
make
to
other
or
right
a
hoof
too
'
'
rest
about
the
'
of
way
a
barbarous
to
being given
'
and
probably
Charlier
'
ing
'burn-
backward
out
gi-ow
the
in
impediment
'
to
this
on
are
not, and
does
farrier
much
every
consequent
necessary
the
the
undergone
operations
apparently
injuriesto
all
course,
laceration
and
to, know
care
tell
Lance,'
Free
'
would
farmers
'i
local
Our
brother
my
where
experiment,
try the
to
will
; but
authority,
horses
My
of
many
same
equally good
beginning
shody
inclined,
am
countries
other
in
letter?*
the
and
Management,
not
are
interest
greatest
observations
mules
and
horses
the
Horse
on
own
my
with
'
Lance
Fiee
fiom
read
.
to
harden.
would
not
could
shoe, and
gradual change
being successful.
All
the
my
of
exception
fresh; they
taken
leaden
My
a
a
ones
carter
drop
to
on
'
the
kick
road.
quarter of
it
of
'
might
over
the
'
or
are
'
do
'
However,
I
balls,'save
old
am
the
age.
land,
if the
traces
theii-
nor
century, having
a
the
on
and
young
they
horse
crippled
'
farm, and, with
; neither
medicine,'
them
thinks
dispositionto
is tried
of
cure
last
the
the
on
another,
perfect health
predecessors,during
ever
and
sire
the
in
are
bred
been
have
horses
but
shows
experiment
prepared
to face
ignorant prejudice by anointing the outraged feelingsof
half
the
smith's
saving in the blackby giving him
man
my
bill, which
instructions
necessary
success
to
will
entail,
to
carry
out
perfectthe change.
Will
Watch.
the
214
APPENDICES.
horses
your
directions
and
them,
to
through
thick
them
make
thin
and
follow
; it is the
out
only
vour
way.
Aberlorna.
Appendix
Shoeing.
HorseIn
Sir,
"
used
a
with
the
to
and
chisel
the
mallet
they
of
there
could
be
as
and
full of
horses
which
would
they
miles
journey 400
slung
sugar
and
lame
either
I
am
this
have
I
quite
not
horse's foot
hope
to say
footsore
or
will
soon
now
coast,
heavily
how
that
sure
as
find
is,let
the
done
work
entirely
their
water,
These
horses
of
and
cotton
and
with
it
rare
the
almost
with
bags
ways,
vip end-
roughly
at
as
make
the
salt codfish
is to
them
see
!
become
to
note
rouo^h
sizes laid
without.
heavy
as
in
one
as
very
mixed
to
provisions; yet
other
were
wondered
drink
laden
home
journey
return
backs
their
on
I
the
interestingto
these
with
so
or
unshod
through, living
to
an
compared
an
country, but
refuse
savr
toughness.
molasses
little
a
job, owing
never
never
descriptionsand
went
I
hard, because
so
of
hollows, ifec. I often
and
grass
in the
in this
sees
little
these
on
one
I
been
causeways,
of all
stones
"
that
have
was
the
Kesrardinor
regret I
that
knife, because
a
horn.
country
I
it would
as
difference
what
this
to
laborious
a
the
with
horse
America,
South
been
of
all shod.
are
shod
a
have
in
hoof
reply is
preference
toughness
ordinary horse's
hoof
Lance,' my
in
it would
latter
extreme
suppose
'Free
to
answer
D.
any
in
this
climate
to the
hard, owing
out
one
to
who
my
of
damp
satisfaction.
has
taken
ours
the
a
; but
All
trouble
I
215
APPENDICES.
to
'
'
Lance
Free
work
the
a
fair trial ; don't
be
don't
gradually,and
on
months
two
give
discussion
all this
read
hard
too
feet
by
first,but
at
first
the
disheartened
be
horse's
the
while
so,
or
advocated
system
hardening.
are
Aberlorna.
E.
Appendix
Horse-Shoeing.
lived
Having
for
considerable
a
Argentine Republic, allow
the
As
of
the
of
will
naturally
immediately clap shoes
to
expect
sound
be
horse
a
first
when
surprised at
brought
Yet
soon
put
hard
a
black
rich
if their
has
only
hoofs
paved streets,
be
owners
absurd
as
to
stony country
a
as
never
walking
it
plains
therefore, the
pavement,
who
person
shoes
will
in
to
on
to
horses
the
a
It would
reared
when
Nature
them.
on
stockings.
degrees
over
needs
covering
go
it would
to
gone
barefoot
gravel
without
practice,
on
is
country
on
is
Horses,
first ;
at
not
a
soil
about
town
stones
no
The
by
feelinguncomfortable
or
are
depth.
tender
go
the
as
camp,
words
shod, but
Republic.
accustomed
been
not
there
considerable
a
the
in the
Ufe
my
few
a
say
never
are
aware,
Argentine
mould
have
are
you
to
me
In
there, horses
termed
are.
horses.
of
shoeing
portion of
the
sole
had
come
of
and
the
foot.
could
We
the
Sierras
The
hoofs
fact,
of
are
instant
an
Cordova
smaller
or
than
mule-shaped
more
ground,
tell in
and
very
not
dense
by
and
a
horse
other
stony mountain
those
of
and
artificial
free
if
from
worn
means
a
Pampas
down
cracks.
ranges.
; in
horse
by
; the
from
the
hai-d
horn
is, moreover,
Depend
upon
it
216
APPENDICES.
will
Nature
adapt
Canadas
in
The
hard
to
he
as
generally
used
sometimes
sides
also.
them
cut
at
^vith
than
there
is very
black
good
order.
much
have
not
little
doubt
trim,
and
of
themselves
hard
did
probability,most
Of
defence, predict
horses, and
give
up
days, and
80
they
do
veterinaries
cent,
because
cannot
be
of
horse
it
was
bothered
must
keeping
knife
are
in the
the
owners
never
with
I
have
horse's
feet
then
by
suit
soon
Fortunately
cats,
or,
in all
present day.
smiths
to
I
Although
ground.
so
good shape
will
and
his
all that
country,
hoofs
dogs
be
horse
tame
in
dry
much
are
first, and
and
ruination
utter
per
shoeing
would
us
the
The
mallet
young
at
his
their
shoe
of
the
course
of
nature
not
a
fields
the
knife.
with
this
in
road, and
the
to
ancestors
in
rally
gene-
them.
on
Keep
success.
liim
the
degrees on
expended
the
at
In
them
keep
experiment
its
use
will
ground
the
draw
hoof,
horses
hoofs
connected
and
the
often
moderately
a
rasp
laboiu*
tried
White
With
horse
them.
to
the
and
force.
The
hard
doing
We
natives
draw
and
rasp
hard,
ones.
the
favourite
much
little trouble
needed, and
without
with
get very
considerable
softer
feet in
Our
; but
the
frequently
more
the
toe.
sive
exten-
dressing.
cutting
provinces
required
hoofs
of
northern
finishingtouch
a
the
used
our
the
toe, but
horse
support
more
and
the
nothing
; the
mallet, making
ground,
the
at
is
for the
ground
deal
good
and
of
bit
better
him
gives
a
soft, and
Besides, there
all the
"
bred
broad, flat feet.
horn
the
wet, soft
chisel
a
feet seldom
weather
is
need
square
got
hmd
hoofs
In
it.
on
go
foot
only
keeps
hoof
his
hard
a
on
to
of
of
stand
the
has
kinds
soil
Horses
have
grounds
expands
down
surface
these
the
horse
wear
circumstances.
to
swampy
of
of the
long
as
low
or
dampness
weight
herself
will, in
feet
of
will
done
unshod
refuse
in
self-
the
to
old
trying an}i}hing
217
APPENDICES.
making
does
change
a
not
; C.
thinks
animals
horses
his
and
he
wait
do
be
may
thinks
till
their
worth
just entering a new
horses
being'laid
his
; D.
will
he
it, but
says
risk
to
crueltyto
is
it is not
and
nearly out,
; B.
wish
lameness
in
lease is
A.'s
new.
taken
there
some
off work
be
may
by
fined
for
truth
some
else tries it ; and
one
work
farm, and
and
up
while
well
enough
they
as
E.
are,
on.
so
I think
tips will
time,
some
where
at
any
much
so
be
for
necessary
rate,
especially in
is thrown
weight
draught horses, for
the
on
hilly country,
a
in
toes
going
up
hill.
I
may
Nature
v.
not
remain
The
Blacksmith,
who
those
system
have
in
long enough
but
I
pluck enough
to
England
wish
every
give
the
to
non-shoeing
Santa
The
In
on
Teeth
reference
affectingother Organs.
'
to
all its
rigidin
The
this
its mouth
beaks,
relief
and
surgeon
Miller, of
which
be
examined,
given
the
horse
of
that
showed
Mill
be
became
and
well,
the
shot.
case,
to
after
as
able
valu-
a
jaw.
of lock-
appeared
particularlyas
animal
Co., became
it to be
Hamilton,
to
ago,
symptoms
ordered
articles
is,perhaps,
years
Blantyre
instantly done,
was
excellent
following case
disbelievinglockjaw
to
was
members,
Dr.
and
scene,
of
'
teeth
Twenty-six
property
veterinary
point
the
knowledge.
horse, the
the
to
affectingits other members,
of his
Lance's
Free
horses, particularlyas
worthy
Fe.
F.
Appendix
"
to
success
fair trial.
a
Sir,
try
if
At
the
on
ordered
overgrown
the
needed
by magic.
N.
218
APPENDICES.
G.
Appendix
Unshod
Sir,
Wlien
"
the
upon
that
a
Bare
Foot
trial
had
the
proved
the
to
warrant
not
if any
glad
such
trial
a
given
horses
in
and
and
information
I
it.
could
how
it
Appendix
Sir,
"
trial
the
am
had
able
been
Artillery
entire
old
I
failure,
system
of
to
given
horses
so
that
contradict
the
at
shoeing,' and
Koyal
Artillery
without
shoes.
have
never
therefore,
should,
inform
will
whether
me
conducted.
was
K.
F.
S.
Horses.
the
system
to
time
some
and
that
obliged
were
inform
tried
K.
'
statement
Woolwich,
they
to
H.
Artillery
to
it
that
obliged
J.
Unshod
time
some
were
present
my
readers
made,
was
they
reply-
shoeing.
contradicting
of your
the
system
'
Lance
with
Woolwich,
that
so
of
system
the
to
Free
'
met
was
at
believe, but
me
I
system,
been
of
arguments
failure,
old
I cannot
This
'
artillery
entire
an
return
the
defending
fair
upon
ago
be
*
Artillery Horses.
J.
their
C.
F.
horses
fair
upon
proved
return
K.
a
ago,
it
to
that
to
S. that
in
an
the
the
England
R., Major-General
.
219
APPENDICES.
Appendix
Horse-
HiR,
'
I
"
I
follow
the
than
perhaps,
unshod
do.
If
of
amount
turn
a
my
groom
and
this
his
on
ready,
that
a
he
he
after
had
on
the
put anything
Mav
old
on
all
they
seen
will
us
the
the
they
would
pense
dis-
of
pleased
One
say.
be
metal
with
the
frog would
the
horse
about
follow.
plan, and
am
just
ten
getting
will
Never
informed
weeks
is, follow
advice
the
find, like
again
will
doubtful
rather
at
thi-ough !
wear
running
you
subject
giavely
the
says
the
on
out
foot
me,
I shoe
if I
some.
24.
Allow
know
lumps
concluding
Aberlorna.
Shoe
Horse-
"
to
nailed
never
Appendix
Sir,
foot
would
steadily,and
persevere
perfectsuccess
horse
be
Lance'
'Free
horse's
a
got
consulted
not
My
using
likewise.
thought
soles.
what
and
to
and
they
were
in
ago,
system,
ancestors
I do
seeing
which
this
out
feet, and
ear
be
sooner,
years
what
only
so
his
horse
a
done
some
of
for
owns
I have
expense
my
must
that
own
exactly
and
therefore
deaf
who
knew
could
much
too
one
benefit
therefore
no,
farriers
The
the
people
horses'
result, and
:
had
I
But
their
to
all
given.
by following
surprised.
'
others, because
trouble
with
.
Lance
he has
horses, and
could
Free
*
every
most
America,
South
on
advice
Shoeing
advise
strongly
tip,'and
to
thank
cannot
I.
me
absurdities
to
of
thank
the
'
Free
K.
ing.
Lance
'
for
laying before
present system of horae-shoeing;
220
APPENDICES.
for, at the
and
by
shoeing
not
of
entirely on
stone
legs and
(which weighs
each
foot.
The
fetlock
with
go
Rest
would
and
of
number
They
have
Some
of
horses
'
why
kind
of
the
consider
myself as
'
only
his
a
I lost
shoe
cut
and
very
it ?
prevent
and
ing
brush-
study
to
sufficient
a
foui'th
or
rest
I
do
drive
day.
week.
per
business
them
which
so
will
such.
from
in
I
out
I also
found
iron
'
be
the
not
of
heard
'
when
Free
be
barefoot,
the
toe/
the
Mr.
of
use
on
I must
that
round
sending sixpenceto
had
and,
that
driven
curled
know
to
mismanaged,
should
advocating
which
wanted
found
front
ment
Manage-
practicalexperience
horse
time
no
who
Their
"
naturally
the
on
saw
Horses
soon
piece of
short
pamphlet
a
of
the
that
recommended
therefore
I
very
one
writing
was
with
I
paper,
'
those
with
reading
Lance
Journal,'
Farm
numbered
was
"
day's
one
say,
Mismangement.'
and
shoe
with
a
and
have
thii'd
every
to
driving slowly.
the
of
for
them
it is
brush
keep
visiting a railway book-stall,I
On
or
I
; but
two
may
because
attached
I to
was
consequence,
rest
readers
your
of
in
ordinary
an
regards cutting
or
satisfied
be
to
allow
to
how
severe
a
opposite foot,
; and
day
a
get with
the
it, as
cannot,
Well,
fast 1
if I
knees
check
often
economy,
p^ge
the
eighteen
what
continually
of
shoe
fetlock, for
the
not
the
at
over
soon
would
horses
is
ing
hour, includ-
an
imagine
the
work
thirty-two ounces)
about
I have
about
run
six miles
would
feet
remedy
horses, whose
can
you
tip.'
'
a
They
of
rate
that
shoe
the
the
at
So
their
only
use
roads.
paved
stoppages.
shaking
to
liis excellent
us
thirty draught
and
day,
a
all, or
at
management
miles
time, giving
same
Stevens
Charlier
before
to
my
knowledge.
After
coidd
go
reading the
ivith the
frog
pamphlet,
on
the
and
ground,
seeing
I at
once
that
sent
a
horse
Is. 6(/"
222
APPENDICES.
it that
does
frog
It
they merely
become
not
feels like
well
purpose
is shod
foot
me
if he
had
on
sin
a
will
As
when
horses
to
be
the
on
horses
to
out,
2:)ointed
shod
Horses
with
be
is
But
tips
repeatedlyproved.
and
hideous
brought
about,
full shoe
; this
and
brushmg
June
horse
blemish
"
cease
the
with
of
the
full
use
be
ably
so
advantages.
load, and
shoe.
horses
This
the
chat
which
"
heel
I
out
with-
with
elbow
by
to
in preference
has
of
is
the
using tips; cutting
of
*
tips.'
15.
I wish
much
carelesslyalong
capped
when
them
heavier
a
say,
happen
cannot
Humane.
U7ishod
"
it
letter,
would
many
several
Appendix
Sir,
he
sir, if the
Lance*
much
trot
have
'
tips
use
the
with
veterinaries
so
also
a
They
I
incurable
pull
a
Now,
'
Free
of
one
can
than
'
as
this
slipvery
system.
would
only
fall.
roads
paved
slipping,I
have
a
asked
I said
of
using
less exertion
of
the
which
them.
commencement
gained by
with
fear
limbs,
farrier
shoes
keep
to
old-fashioned
this
its
whole
style. My
stone
on
shoe.
old
do.
them.
from
the
bars
fulfilling when
old-fashioned
in the
to
The
answers
the
to
from
pity
a
use
seen
only advantage
prevent
was
running
shod
concussion
the
up
it
as
crust, sole, and
old-fashioned
use
too.'
good job
a
indiariibber, and
is debarred
in the
should
be
when
it
hand,
would
of
piece
And
the
as
by preventing
office which
an
hard,
firm
a
'
answer,
to
say
a
few
theory propounded
L.
Horses.
words
by
to
'Free
your
readers
Lance'
"
in favour
a
theory.
223
APPENDICES.
by-the
never
way,
isle
verdant
there
might
when
I
got
daily
the
feet, but
four
four
from
; but
the
full
in
a
backward
run
that
off
thinking
and
determined,
I
make
1 would
three-year-old
a
I would
is
horse
not
Free
'
as
and
get
all his
end
of
him
daily
farrier
a
advised, and
gradually
come
place
country
the
faculties,and
driven
'
Lance
believe
I
the
at
now,
of
ruin
only
not
(Irish measure) regularly.
miles
This
on.
very
but
walk,
plan,
shoes
enjo^nnent
done
foot, only I could
put them
the
feet,although I have
sound
have
to
Lance,'
the
that
prophesied
three-quarter shoes,
on
Free
chapter,
I took
fourteen
I would
could
in
14th
the
in the
to
only
this
work.
farm
good,
'
truth
as
horse
eight weeks,
part of
this
in
of
letters
some
far
farrier
My
has
not
Accordingly,
trial.
colt in
be
as
horses
the
read
Having
of
shoes.
work, without
and
a
that
"
heard
to
it is
either
the
be
hard
the
to
able
put
bare
willing
or
right plan, but
to
work
get the
rightly done.
In
the
hope
done, I
have
Co.
am,
Armagh,
that
will
many
June
18,
shoes
I
Since
off
a
pony
begin to work
(Irish)for the
journey
as
the
to
try
as
D.
S.
1880.
I
M.
Horses.
Unshod
"
tempted
"c.,
Appendix
SiR^
be
wrote
I
that
very
use
for
letter, I
have
taken
driving, churning,
gradually, not
first few
foot
last
my
more
than
two
days, increasingthe length
gets hard.
the
I
"c.
miles
of
the
224
APPENDICES.
I
think
this
has
owner
that
see
'Nature
Three
of
has
theii-
with
away
all
his
succeeded,
great
benefit
London,
:
iron,
are
upon
August
year.
will
people
be
with
begin
to
of
ordinary
these
whilst
with
from
1880.
third
the
only
the
that
and
tip,
without
the
satisfied
their
full
ordinary
the
their
given
have
seen,
S.
shoe
"
an
hoises
and
will
away
both
horses
with
case
D.
as
used
and
tip,
the
horse
29.
doing
them
Charlier
from
June
of
is
the
Art.*
gentlemen,
experience
of
as
generation
next
beats
Armagh,
Co.
one
the
time
where
one
pressing,
this
at
in
good
very
work
farmers
Perhaps
a
much
not
Irish
most
plan
another
losing
has
at
They
outset.
have
not
have
conferred
horses.
The
work
done
once
of
precaution
they
any
the
Author.
working
over-
all
a
INDEX.
COG
ABE
100,
Action
of
170,
Aloes,
American
farmers,
67,
141
79,
"
42
trotters,
Anstruther
Clark,
on
wheels,
24,
60,
12,
Colonel,
Thompson,
17
of
Apathy
farriers
Army,
Arsenic,
the,
in
84,
174,
horses,
Asphalte
pavement,
88,
76,
135,
92,
91,
151,
139,
147.
Colonel,
91,
103,
104
43,
58,
200,
199,
198,
126,
218
185
OARACTACUS,'
Cape,
85,
horses
201,
Astley,
Philip,
Attrition,
94,
95,
198,
194,
195
Australia,
Calks,
60
114,
112,
183,
horses,
and
Carts
Centennial
feet,
load,
a
82,
78,
84,
83,
88,
94,
113,114,117,121,123,124,
199,
208,
215,
floors, 22,
83,
92,
115,
24,
116,
32,
65,
154,
82,
163,
Q
the,
63,
74,
77,
78,
140,
200,
of
frog,
81,
43,
Coffin
bone,
86,
76,
87
55,
58,,
67,
6d,
65,
157.
220
184,
194,
207
115,
117,
87,
105,
the,
35
74
54,
62,
Clips,
Cogs,
189
the,
shoe,
61,
Climate,
223
7, 27,
154
a,
60,
Cleft
125,130,143,154,187,189,
77, 78,
170
shoe,
Charlier
142,
83,
207
178,
horses,
cart
officer,
Cavalry
BACKING
184
107,
105,
Carriage
113
35, 37, 38, 66,
34,
87,
the,
at
174
141,
202
Bare
46,
17
Artillery
Bare
207
178,
(see Cutting)
Burdett,
121
196
9, 11,
157
Brushing
15
horseowners,
36,91,
2, 7,
86,
20,
wind,
Broken
27,
194,195,
104,
97,
154,
161
Antimony,
185,
hoof,
93,
170,
134,
151
Brakes
Brittle
26,
26,
Bracy
(see Russell)
horseshoers
"
66,
65,
56,
194
6, 25,
97,
92,
55,
177,221
139,
176,
Blistering,
26
25,
137,
171,
169,
181
173,
74,
151,
148,
horses,
38,
foot,
rein, the,
Bearing^
219
213,
the
100,
210,
123,
119,
109,
of
Bars
of,
experience
ABERLORNA,
34,
130
107
71, 98
177,
226
INDEX,
COL
shoeing,
Cold
Down
36, 37, 66, 102,
Drugs,
57, 65, 72, 74, 170,
D.
222
188,
hill, 2, 3, 7, 8, 11, 66,
86
107
105, 106,
Concussion,
GRA
17, 18, 19
S.'s
letters,223
Corns, 5, 31, 37, 61, 63, 90, 115,
151, 157
the, 72, 90, 91, 92, 93,
Coronet,
46, 48, 50
EXPANSION,
72, 95, 144, 158, 160,
94
Crust,
of
wall
or
36,
140,
78, 98, 136,
and
Cutting
hoof, 31, 33,
58, 71,
55,
44,
194
92
19, 31, 46, 56, 58,
Cowdung,
Crib-biting, 150
61,
185,
quarter, 31, 36, 151
FALSE
Fashion, 41, 87, 88, 134,
73, 75,
221
195,
brushing,
5,
166,
39,
172,
Fearnley,
61, 151, 157, 172, 220, 222
173,
Mr.,
190
blistering,
on
92
'
the,
NEWS,'
DAILY
from,
83
Dalziel
on
extract
Dentist,
veterinary,
Docking
the
Donkev,
the,
"
147
tail, 132,
"
172, 207
81, 88,
80,
Charlier
"
90
corns,
horse's
the
"
161
86, 154,
the
"
Daily Telegraph,' the,
from,
tract
ex-
"
"
129,
"
wood
Douia:las,Mr.,
on
"
"
frog, 11, 72,
19
ointments,
stride,
'Field,' the, newspaper,
72,
187
Fitting
foot
the
of
life
Foreign
Founder
167
crust,
44,
"
"
"
of
the
"
"
"
"
armv,
82, 207
horse,
72, 74, 75, 89, 98, 137, 139,
144, 184, 189, 192, 194, 207,
of
the
sole, 72, 98
military farriers, 84,
thrush,
221
Frost, 85, 86, 161, 191
121
89
litter, grease,
water,
grass
horses, 24, 88, 207
(see Laminitis)
French
60
structure
"
shoe, 34, 35, 39,
Frog, the, 11, 37, 55, 56, 61, 66,
average
"
to
40, 55,
176
136
"
foot, 179
calks, 179
shoes, 184
34
structure
"
of
98, 191, 202
Mr.
E. F., 26, 133, 134,
Flower,
shoeing, 36
weight of shoes, 43,
"
156
Fhnts,
98
hot
"
140
106
hoof
"
140
147
mutilation
lo
the
larynx,
hunter,
the
131
shoe,
pavement,
the
130
slippery shoes,
head,
and
concussion
91
nAUCHOS,
roads, 94, 98
horseshoers,
navicular
tar,
VJT
117
gutta percha,
founder,
171
113
pavement,
88, 178, 182,
disease, 150
and
Granite
170
Grass,
58, 85,
187, 198,
220
56, 94, 101, 113, 114, 154,
159, 169, 202
227
INDEX.
MAY
GRE
Groggy
disease)
percha,
Lafosse, 44, 45,
Navicular
(^^f^'f"
lameness
Gutta
Lad)''shorse, the,
hoof, 91, 92, 104
the
Greasing
Laminitis
(founder), 34, 65, 66,
157, 170, 175
161, 171
Lancet,' the,
*
Lawrence,
Life, average
the, 28, 131
Hoof
ointments,
HEAD,
shoeing,
on
Mr.,
125
13
of, in
the
horse,
62
19, 31,
Litter, 22, 23, 24, 31, 91, 154,
46, 91, 186
182
194
Hope,
Sir W.,
Horn,
growth of, 33, 58, 61, 80,
Lock
jaw, 174, 217
Ludgate Hill, 10, 12, 126, 127,
112, 124, 195
shoeing, 35, 36, 44, 65, 66,
109,
Hot
165-168
46
128, 129
Lunette
shoe,
or
tip, 45, 109
Mr.,
30, 136, 137
Lupton,
76, 87, 102, 107, 120
Human
skin, the, 95, 98
letter of, 220
Humane,'
'
the, 156-164
Hunter,
MAYHEW
sprain
on
"
64, 85, 127
ICE,
Impecuniosus
of hoof,
mutilation
"
shoeing
"
"
"
india-rubber,
shoe
horses,
it is the
"
tips, 49, 167
expansion, 50, 96
veterinary surgeons,
"
wrong
"
"
156
hurts
the
principles,32, 37, 38
Improved
India, cavalry in,
a
strict
economist,
59
horse, 203
India-rubber,
nature
"
that
shoe
51, 82,
96
feet, 141
hind
his
"
31, 97, 149
from
sprung
roots, 138
"
"
54
shoe, 61, 110
ideas
"
prejudices of ignorance, 25
aloes, physicking, 26
seedy toe and false quarter,
"
57
three-quarter
"
51
11
14
masters,
"
52
reform,
Charlier
the
"
tips, 49
on
1
14, 15
servants,
"
springs,
of tendon,
83
of
"
foot
"
conceit
donkey,
80
of mankind,
spavin, splint,and
"
81
ringbone,
90
57
the
"
necessity of being
*
tical,'
prac-
94
H., trainer, 143,
TEXNINGS,
O
145,
the
necessity of attrition,95
selfishness, ignorance, and
"
153
"
prejudice, 117
TTIDXEYS,
irritation
of, 25
evil
"
results,
different
"
134
aspects
of
disease,
149
the,
LARYNX,
Laceration
147
navicular
"
of horn, 73, 87,
"
136
"
02
disease, 150
folly of obstinacy, 152
transpiration in the foot, 162
the
228
INDEX.
MAT
Mayhew
pride
the
"
Rest, 6, 25, 26, 97, 103
farriers, 171
on
has
"
SPA
brains,
no
multiformity
shoes,
185
and
grease
"
organism
"
stopping,
of the
unnatural
"
88, 130
Miles,
on
the
114,
159,
'
Moscow,
101,
the,
tracts
ex-
83, 165
from,
177,
180,
82
181, 182,
122,144,
145,165,169,
215
Roaring, 147
Royal Agricultural Society, 204
Roman
horses, 45
Roughing,
58, 59, 86
Routine,
26, 67, 81, 82, 85, 153
Russell, American
183, 184
of
Mutilation
202,
foot, 46,
196, 204
retreat
88,
horse, the, 176
180, 188, 190, 191, 192, 194,
horse's
from,
Mules,
foot, 194
Advertiser,'
Morning
186
drive
Ringbone, 5, 89, 90
Roads
{see also Asphalte, Grranite and
Wood), 49, 55, 63,
66,70,79,80,81,86,89,
99,
restraint, 196
Mexico,
and
Ride
173
of
hoof, 32, 33, 35,
37, 43, 52,
58, 59, 66, 100,
horse-shoer,
73, 75, 76, 147
Runaway
horses, 2,
12
104, 171, 179
disease
NAVICULAR
giness), 5, 37, 62,
(grog150
85, 126,
SAND,
Sandcrack,
127
5, 34, 36,
89,
90, 97
Nitre, 17
Santa
17
Nostrums,
Fe
(correspondent), 153,
177, 202, 215
Sawdust, 23
Scoop-toed rolling-motion shoe,
146, 149
OCULIST,
Oils, 92, 97
74
77, 116, 192, 195
90
Overreach,
Osmer,
fetlock,
Overshot
Seedy
toe, 5, 23, 31, 34, 36, 89,
90, 97, 147, 149,
151
151
Seeley shoe, the, 105, 107
Servants, 7, 14, 15, 29, 30, 39,
205, 208
PARENTS,
Park
hacks, 168
Pembroke,
Lord,
Percival,
Professor,
Physic, 25
Poisoning,
Pumice
61
Sidebones,
14, 22, 29,
on
35
tips, 49
(drop
sole), 5, 57,
58, 62, 97
Q
UITTOR,
and
dams,
205, 208
Slipping, 5, 10, 31, 35, 45, 48,
58, 63, 70, 72, 85, 86, 126,
127, 135, 175, 184,202,222
18, 64
foot
Sires
5, 39, 61, 89, 157
Smither,
Messrs., 43, 62, 63, 68,
88
Snow, 61, 85, 87, 161
Sole, the, 33, 35, 37, 55, 56, 57,
5, 89, 90, 151
58, 61,
62,
70,
72, 75, 76,
77, 98, 101,
103, 104, 117,
137, 167, 192, 210
horses, 34, 144, 153
RACE
Rasping
the
toe,
79,
112, 117, 122, 172, 195
80,
Spain, shoeing in, 36, 37, 106,
190
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