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fix it firmly for work, and to make use for the purpose of double 

 or even of triple the number of (small) nails we ordinarily insert. 

 In fact, if the horse is to go to work in it, the shoe must be 

 secured at any multiplicity and variety of nailing, and clipping 

 in addition, save that of doing positive injury to the foot. 



Frush. 



Etymology, supported by primitive* and the best modern! 

 usage, is my authority for giving this orthography to what is, 

 in these our days, commonly spelt thrush. Custom may be 

 urged as a forcible reason for even continuing in literal error, 

 and it is at all times an awkward power to make war against ; 

 at the same time, I think it behoves us to rid our nomenclature 

 of as much of the false orthography which has crept into it as 

 possible, and particularly when we come to be warned of such 

 error by our own lexicographers J. The derivation of the word 

 frush is a matter which has been so learnedly discussed by 

 Bracy Clark, in his '' Essay on Running Frush," that I shall 

 avail myself of the opportunity on the present occasion^ since 

 it appears a question of some importance to settle, of translating 

 the passage treating thereon into these pages: — 



"The term Frush is originallv derived from the Latin Furca, 

 signifying a fork ; but probably comes more immediately to us 

 from the French word Fourche, also signifying the same thing; 

 and its derivative, Fourchette, is the appellation, in this language, 

 of the frog at this day. Hence formerly we obtained Running 

 Fourche, and by an easy transition Running. Frush, which 

 word actually occurs in our English writers, as in Blundeville 

 and De Grey, and others, and is therefore the true wordr 



Frush is so notorious, that any horseman would run a risk 

 of being accused of unpardonable ignorance who should confess 

 to any lack of knowledge concerning it ; and yet, as a vete- 

 rinary writer, I find it to be a subject calling for a somewhat 

 extended consideration. So common is frush, that, if ever there 



* Blundeville, De Grey, Solleysel, &c. t Bracy Clark. 



J Richardson's New Dictionary of the English Language. 



