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patience, and particularly when anticipating 

 being watered and fed. Under ordinary condi- 

 tions it is generally advisable to remove the 

 hind shoes and keep them off during the 

 voyage, so as to lessen the risk of horses 

 breaking their stall fittings and injuring their 

 companions, especially if the animals have to 

 be unloaded into a lighter (p. 78). Besides, 

 if the fittings of a stall are not correctly made, 

 a horse, when kicking, may get hung up by 

 a hind leg. My experience is that if a horse is 

 barefoot behind, he will be much less apt to kick 

 than if he was shod behind. With remounts 

 during warfare, the question of efficiency soon 

 after landing and the difficulty of shoeing a 

 large number of animals would naturally out- 

 weigh the advantage to be obtained from 

 decreased liability to accidents from kicking, 



