138 SHOEING. 



provement of all parties interested in the e.v-' 

 planatory part of his work. 



• 

 This author, in the early part of his tracts 

 says, ^' if you pretend to have your horse 

 shod according to your own mind, it is a 

 general saying among these men, that they 

 do not want to be taught/' This very ac- 

 knowledgment of his justifies the necessity of 

 recommending to the remembrance of every 

 gentleman sportsman, or traveller^ that he is 

 in the business of shoeing y only the imagi- 

 nary n;iain spring in the operative part ', and 

 that his inclination or directions become un- 

 avoidably dependent upon the will of another. 

 That this remark may be div^ested of its para- 

 doxical appearance, let it be understood how 

 very much the safety , propriety, and excel- 

 lence of manual executioFf depend upon the 

 well-timed liberality of the Gentleman ; 

 or, in farther illustration of a passage that 

 may savour too much of ambiguity to those 

 whose pecuniary pulsations render it difficult 

 of comprehension, it is almost incredible 

 how very much occasional judicious interpo- 

 sitions of good beer, (or the means to obtain 

 it), with the subordinate operator, improves^ 



