MULE AND OX SANDALS. 311 



Figure 127 is a drawing of another of this class exhibited 



fig. 127 



in the Museum of Besanqon, which differs yet more in 

 shape, though, unlike the last, it has only a single clip on 

 each side. M. Megnin,' who does not appear to have 

 noticed the existence of the class to be next described, 

 evidently believes the two kinds to have been employed 

 as chaussiires for domestic animals. ' It is certain, indeed, 

 that these shoes could only have been worn by very slow- 

 paced pack animals, such as mules and oxen, and that the 

 name given to them by the Abbe Cochet, hippo-sandals, 

 is not suitable ; it ought to be mulo-sandals or bu-sandals. 

 This last designation was originated by M. Delacroix,^ 



d'ouvriers toujours disposes a en imposer ou a se faire illusion a eux- 

 memes, et enfin, parce que notre experience nous a montre conibien il 

 est difficile que le pied du cheval se soit suffisamment conserve pour 

 etre aussi bien restitue, meme par rhomme le plus competent. Quoi- 

 que M. de Widranges soit un fort honnete et tres-consciencieux arch- 

 eologue, je lui demanderai la permission de citer, sous sa seule re- 

 sponsabilite, les faits qui precedent, faits dont I'importance est d'autant 

 plus grand que jusqu'ici, en France, ils sont seuls de leur genre.' — 

 Le Tomleau de Chi/cleric, p. 1 54. 



' La Marechalerie Fran9aise, p. 40. Paris, 1867. 

 Memoires de la Soc. d'Emulation du Doubs, 1864. 



