110 STABLE MANAGEMENT. 



Of course, such light shoes as those of native manu- 

 facture have not a great lot of wear in them, and in 

 heavy, holding ground would pull off, but on the 

 hard level plains of India they last well enough, 

 and the native smith, if his faults are known and 

 corrected, is not a bad workman after his own lights. 



