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a good deal to say about the corpses that I drive, 

 but I take care of their feet, and they manage to do 

 good work. 



' I make my best time in driving down hill. I 

 have no fear of hard roads and no fear of pave- 

 ments if a horse's foot is kept in proper condition. 

 Last winter I rode my saddle mare, and of course 

 my neck is more to me than anything else. I 

 galloped out on the ice where the men were cutting 

 it, and I had no fear of her slipping, although the 

 horse that was marking the ice, and had calks on 

 two inches thick, did slip.' 



Finding it impossible to induce the ordinary 

 farriers to make or put on any shoes except those of 

 the old pattern. Mr. Bowditch boldly set up his own 

 forge for the benefit of his own horses. Sometimes, 

 when one of his neighbours has a very lame horse, 

 he brings the animal to Mr. Bowditch, and when it is 

 cured, he goes back to his old farriers, and has it 

 lamed afresh. 



Now we can see why the calks inflict an injury 

 on the horse. 



In the first place, they give a wrong bearing to 

 the hoof, by lifting it up behind, whereas Nature 

 intended it to come flatly on the ground. If the 

 reader will again look at the section of the pastern 

 on p. 40, he will see that the tip of the coffin bone 



