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BAD TO SHOE. 



properly applied, I will refer to its effects upon a few 

 special cases. 



At Bellows Falls, Vt., a paper-maker owned a fine 

 horse, which, though otherwise very gentle, was extremely 

 hard to shoe. A traveling horseman of much experience 

 and a great deal of pretension, visited the place and made 

 a small class. The owner, wishing to have his horse 

 broken, brought him in to be experimented upon. Ac- 

 cording to the gentleman's statement to me, this man 



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Fig. 187. — Pulling the foot back to test the horse's submission. 



worked with the horse about half a day, injuring him 

 very severely, — in the owner's language, " almost killed 

 him." The result of it all was that the horse beat the 

 man completely, and was more reckless and determined in 

 his opjDOsition than before. I requested the gentleman to 

 let me see the horse. Upon examination, I found him to be 

 finely bred, naturally gentle, but if excited or badly man- 

 aged he would be extremely difficult to control. I told 

 the owner we Avould have no difficulty at all with the 

 horse, and succeeded in rendering him perfectly gentle in 

 about fifteen minutes. 



