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HORSE AND MAX. 



hoof, seems at first sight as incredible as that the 

 holes in the cards above the loom contain the pattern 

 which the machine works in coloured silks below. 



Yet, as I have said, the manager of the machine 

 can read the pattern of the silk in the cards, and he 

 knows that if only a single card were to be removed, 

 or even transposed, or a hole omitted, the pattern 



SECTION OF FETLOCK. 



would be imperfect. Similarly, those who know the 

 construction of the hoof are perfectly aware that all 

 its parts, whether external or internal, are dependent 

 on each other, and that an injury done to one will 

 affect all the others. 



I shall now endeavour to place before the reader 

 the interior of the hoof, and its connection with the 



