8 RATIONAL HORSE-SHOEING. 



quickly tell you. His action will expose 

 quackery and unmask pretension . He will 

 be no party to a fraud, no advocate of an adver- 

 tisement. 



SOUND HORSES. 



A sound horse is, after man, the paragon 

 of animals. " In form and moving how ex- 

 press and admirable ! " His frame is perfect 

 mechanism, instinct with glowing life, and 

 guarded by the great conservative and heal- 

 ing powers of nature from disease and death. 

 His vitality is surpassed by that of man, be- 

 cause man has the endowment of soul, and in 

 his human breast hope springs eternal and 

 imagination gives fresh powers of resist- 

 ance. Like man, the horse conforms cheer- 

 fully to all climates and to all circumstances. 

 He is equally at home — 



" Whether where equinoctial fervors glow 

 Or winter wraps the polar world in snow." 



Amid the sands of Arabia his thin hide and 

 fine hair evidence his breeding; in the frozen 

 north his shaggy covering defends him from 

 the cold storms and searching winds. The 



