HOESE-SHOEING. 109 



Filing up the Shoe. 



Much time is often wasted in polishing the shoe 

 with the file, before it is nailed on; but all that is 

 really needed is, to remove the burrs about the nail- 

 hules, file off the sharp edges of the shoe, and round 

 the heels, taking care to applj the file hard to that 

 part of both lieels which comes next to the frog, so 

 as to slant it from the ground upward from the frog; 

 but jou must be careful not to make the ground- 

 surface of the web at the heels narrower in so doiui^^. 

 fig. 1 shows the foot surface, and fig. 2, plate 21, the 

 ground surface of a near fore-shoe. 



In fig. 1 ^ is the clip at the toe. B 1 the outer 

 quarter. B 2 the inner quarter. C 1 the outer heel. 

 C 2 the inner heel. D the seating. E the flat sur- 

 face for the crust to bear uj)on. F the heels bevelled 

 off away from the frog. 



In fig. 2 ^ is the toe, turned up out of the line 

 of wear. B 1 the outer, and B 2 tlie inner quarter. 

 (71 tlie outer, and 6^2 the inner heel. D the ground 

 surface of the web, as wide at the heels as it is at 

 the toe. E the fuller, carried all round the shoe. F 

 the inner quarter, and heel slightly bevelled from 

 the foot to the ground. 



l^ails. 

 A few words must be said about the nails, before 

 we come to nailing on the shoe, because the nails in 



