142 SHOEING. 



tain the most trifling injury under the hands 

 of the Smith, nor ever a horse plated but 

 what proved a icinner. 



The trifling attention, the humane bene- 

 faction of a cooling beverage to allay thirst 

 in the excessive heat of summer, or the sa- 

 lutary interposition of an invigorating cor- 

 dial to encounter the extreme severity of 

 frost or snow in winter, are offices of kind- 

 ness that in their visible effects upon the 

 hand and hamme7\ insure, beyond a doubt, 

 the safety of the horse and the reputation 

 of the owner. The philanthropic influence 

 of '' doing as you would be done unto,*^ 

 is repaid witli the most flattering interest ; 

 the same care and attention bestowed upon 

 the feet in shoeing, are extended in general 

 tenderness to the safety of the whole frame 

 upon all other professional occasions ; if 

 refractory or vicious, he is soothed by kind- 

 ness^ not provoked by violence', in short, 

 whatever fatigue ensues, wliatever ditliculty 

 occurs, the execution is cheeifully com- 

 pleated, with a retrospective reference to 

 the persevering hospitality of the Master, 

 who, living in an unvaried scene of uni- 



