THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



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it sometimes becomes advisable, for the servant's own good, 

 that the master should turn executioner. 

 It is not a pleasant task the man then finds before him. 



Fig. 141— A Cowboy Halter. Showing the Bands, Knots, Loop and Latch. 



It is not one that most men know how to properly per- 

 form. 



