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any sign of inconvenience. On acciden- 

 tally taking up his front foot, as I was in 

 the habit of doing occasionally, to my sur- 

 prise I found a ten-penny cut nail which 

 had entered the cleft of the frog and was 

 bent over and lying flat on the sole. On 

 taking hold of it, I found it quite loose, 

 but could not get it out, and the hostler 

 coming up, seized it with pincers and 

 pulled it out, tearing the frog somewhat 

 in doing so. On examining the nail, the 

 end was found bent around in the form of 

 a hook, which accounted for the difficulty 

 in pulling it out, and likewise, for the 

 tearing of the frog. Now this nail, which 

 was a new one, must have been straight 

 when it entered the frog, and could only 

 have been bent by encountering the hard 



