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torial decision ? Why, strongly recommend, 

 vath the full force of • theoretic persua- 

 sion, the introduction of a mode of shoeing 

 directly contradictory to the opinion just re- 

 cited, that may be perfectly adapted to and 

 coincide with the sentiments of any writer 

 in the act of amusing hi?7iself, employing 

 the Printer, and deceiving the Public ; but 

 can never be brought into general practice, 

 without perpetual hazard to the horse, and 

 imminent danger to the rider. This is so 

 perfectly clear, that I will go very far beyond 

 bare literary assertion, and be bound to stake 

 both property and professional reputation 

 upon the certain failure of their improved 

 proposition of shoeing, with what they call 

 their half-moon shoe, with all its boasted 

 advantages. A long chain of remarks in 

 opposition is by no means necessary ; a very 

 concise and candid investigation will afford 

 ample proof of their having reconciled (in 

 compliment to their patient readers) as pal- 

 pable contradictions in description as Osmer, 

 whose '' unelastic tendon'' was immediately 

 after '' elongated." 



You are given to understand (as I have 

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