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THE HORSE 



of improving action, are consistent only in their unre- 

 liability. This is because horses dish, point, interfere 

 and forge from many different causes; hence there are 

 many men of many minds. When an artist of the 

 anvil succeeds in making a horse stop interfering or 

 forging, he thinks he has discovered the secret and 

 will forever after shoe every horse identically the same 

 for the same defect. The trouble is in the want of abil- 

 ity to discern the true causes which produce the defect. 



Gypsy Queen, a good saddler 



