ON SHOEING. 119 



" that ought to be looked to in a horse is his foot. For as a house 

 would be of no use, though all the upper parts of it were beautiful, if 

 the lower parts of it had not a proper foundation, so a horse would 

 not be of any use in war if he had tender feet, even though he should 

 have all other good qualities, for his good qualities could not be 

 made of any available use." 



In manj parts of the world the horse, though severely 

 worked, has never yet been shod. Indeed, in some of 

 the towns in South America it would still cost more 

 money to shoe a horse than was paid to purchase him. 



On Koughing Horses. 



Although of all axioms no one is more trite and true 

 than that " there is a right and a wrong way of doing 

 everything," yet our readers will hardly be prepared to 

 learn that the Anglo-Saxon on one side of the Atlantic 

 roughs his horse in the right way, and on the other 

 side in the wrong way ! 



In the United States, and especially in Canada, the 

 surface of which for half a dozen months in every year, 

 white as a bridal plum-cake, is composed of snow or ice, 

 the toe as well as the two heels of each shoe are roughed ; 

 and as, in consequence thereof, the horse on every foot 

 stands upon a tripod, his sinews and muscles not only 



