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kept him, or / should not at this moment be able to 



sign myself 



'Thy sincere friend, and father of 



several of thy admirers, 



' JOHN BELLOWS.' 



In this case, the proceedings of the horse were 

 the more remarkable, because the hoof was shod, 

 and therefore its sensitive capacity must have been 

 cramped. I am always glad to receive information 

 from members of the Society of Friends, because their 

 scrupulous regard for truth and avoidance of ex- 

 aggeration gives to their narratives an additional 

 value. 



' Free Lance ' puts the point very well in the follow- 

 ing words : ' The frog is a natural calk, but it must 

 have fair play. It is pointed in front like a plough- 

 share to offer resistance in one direction. To offer 

 resistance in the contrary direction it is semi- cloven, 

 and thus it offers a double resistance, for the very 

 evident reason that a horse needs more aid to go 

 ahead than he does to stop himself. Yet the two 

 ends have been rightly balanced by nature, if we 

 could only see the thing as such.' 



So much, then, for the frog and its value to horse 

 and therefore to man. The idea of paring it for the 

 purpose of stimulating its growth is ludicrously 

 absurd. The best way of stimulating the growth of 



