A LOOSENED HOOF. 115 



and ending with the toe. The result was that the 

 hoof was becoming loosened from the foot ; and when 

 the horse raised its foot, the bones and their sensitive 

 laminae were drawn out of the hoofs so far that the 

 vascular portions became visible, the foot sinking 

 back into the hoof when the weight of the horse rested 

 upon it. The agony which each step must have cost 

 the horse is beyond the power of description. 



