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extent, in the foot ; in fact, it has the advantages 

 claimed for the Goodenough shoe without its drawbacks. 

 Any smith can make a Charlier shoe, and the putting it 

 on is simplicity itself. It has been tried with success on 

 a few cavalry horses, and I have lately seen the shoe in 

 use in a stiff bank and ditch country, where it answered 

 to the satisfaction of those concerned. Granting it to 

 be no better than the common plan, if it be no worse in 

 other respects the extreme lightness is a great point 

 gained. I cannot fancy that the Goodenough shoe is 

 so very much lighter than a light hunting shoe of the 

 English fashion. But the weight of these latter varies a 

 good deal. 



Surely, among the readers of the Field, some one has 

 tried the Goodenough shoe besides Mr. Lethbridge. He 

 conferred a boon on the public by stating his experience, 

 and anyone who, having tried the system, will follow his 

 example, will, at the expense of but little trouble, and 

 the wear and tear of pen and ink hardly enough to 

 alarm even Mr. Greg, assist in throwing light on a 

 subject now confessedly veiled in obscurity, viz., the 

 horse's foot, and, in these days of reduction, reducing 

 our veterinary bills, by checking the " deterioration of 

 our saddle horses." 



