132 SHOEING. 



missive to Iiis treatment, that the active supervision of its master is 

 doubly necessary for its protection. While the present mode of nailing 

 is continued, every proprietor willfully exposes his quadruped to danger 

 who sends the creature to be shod. Any journeyman may, therefore, 

 be pardoned if, occasionally, the foot be pricked ; but the pains and the 

 labor required to adjust a hoof to a shoe of small dimensions are abso- 

 lute proof of evil design, and are irrefutable testimony which should 

 forbid the remotest thought of leniency toward the offender. 



