4lND how to keep it sound. 



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FIGURES IX. AND XL 



Figs. 9 and 10 represent a near fore foot, shod on the ob- 

 jectionable plan of having the shoe " well set off at the 

 lieeis," 



Fig. 9. 



Fig. 9 — Shows this mode of shoeing, as it is usually practised ; — with the 

 web at the heels only about half as wide as at the toe ; the heels so far 

 separated, as to deprive the important parts lying between them of all 

 protection ; and the shoe held on by seven nails, placed principally in tha 

 quarters. 



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