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HORSE-SHOES JXD HORSE-SHOEING. 



or stocks — exact counterparts of those employed by 

 country farriers in Britain and the Continent half a cen- 

 tury ago — where it is firmly bound and wedged in by 

 ropes and bars, and a twitch — an instrument of punish- 

 ment still tolerated in other lands — twisted to agony round 

 the under-lip of the subdued beast, until its extremities 

 have been iron-clad. The more docile and submissive 

 animal is less harshly dealt with, for it is allowed to stand 

 untied, with one of its feet flexed on a low three-legged 

 stool, while the workman shaves off' great slices of super- 

 fluous horn from the thick soles, with an instrument which 



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fig. 78 



difl'ers in no particular that wc can see from the now 

 obsolete " buttress " of England, or the present houtoir of 

 France (fig. 78). Perhaps a fidgety draught animal does 



