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The inside, as well as outside edge, should be well 

 bevelled off', so that the toe of the hind-shoe should 

 present only a blunt convex surface. Previously to 

 rendering hind-shoes thus harmless, I had frequent 

 over-reaches. In the last seven years I have not had 

 one ; nor, in the course of the two last seasons, hunting 

 on the average four days a week, can I call to mind 

 having more than once lost a shoe. 



I am borne out, therefore, by experience, in my as- 

 sertion that proper care and attention to shoeing will 

 obviate the inconvenience of " lost shoes," to say nothing 

 of the preservation from broken feet ; many a hoof being 

 pretty considerably broken before the loss of the shoe 

 has been discovered. 



FEET AND LEGS. 



On the subject of feet it is not my intention to dwell, 

 supposing that none of you are disposed to consider 

 good and sound feet of less importance to a hunter 

 than a hack, and taking it for granted that, even in the 

 smallest studs of hunters, your head groom is capable of 

 counteracting thrushes, (for which there is no excuse, 

 want of care and cleanliness being the prevailing causes,) 

 and also of dealing with corns, wounds from stubs, and 

 all the minor diseases and injuries to which feet are liable. 

 It would be easy enough for me here to make extracts. 



