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down, but it returns again and again. I ride and 

 drive him not very long distances, twenty-five miles 

 being the greatest distance he is called upon to do 

 in a day, though he has sometimes done much more. 

 Last week I drove him over twenty miles a day for 

 four days in succession. Our roads are metalled 

 with a stone as hard as granite, and of course in the 



MR. R. A. LUCKS HORSE, PORE LEGS NEARLY PERFECT. 



country there are quantities of loose stones. I en- 

 close you two photos taken fifteen months after the 

 shoes had been removed. Of course the hoofs are 



much better shaped now. 



' Yours, &c., 



' E. A. LUCK.' 

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