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the evil ; but none can, in the long-run, cure the 

 disorder under which the hoof evidently suffers. 

 Anointing the hoofs, or using various stoppings, are 

 equally fruitless.' You cannot get the present race 

 of stablemen to believe a single word of this ; there- 

 fore their present sway must be wrested from them. 



