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CHAPTEK II. 



DOUGLAS ON HORSE-SHOEING — STREET ACCIDENTS AND BRAKES — 

 LORD PEMBROKE AND MAYHEW ON SERVANTS. 



A VETERINARY surgeon, Mr. W. Douglas, late 10th 

 Eoyal Hussars, was so much impressed by the 

 miseries, diseases, and dangers caused to horses by 

 their being pushed down hill by their loads, that it 

 caused him to write a book upon ' Horse-shoeing.' 

 Here is part of his preface : — 



' Passing down Ludgate Hill one day [this was 

 whilst it was paved with stone] my attention was 

 directed to the pitiful condition of a horse in the 

 shafts of a large waggon. The poor animal was not 

 drawing the load, but was being driven down the 

 descent by the crushing weight behind ; and, utterly 

 unable, from the manner in luhich it was shod, to 

 withstand the pressure, it had gathered its hind 

 legs well under, and its fore legs well in advance of 

 its body, in a helpless struggle to avert the fall 

 which it too evidently knew was at hand. Never 

 did I witness such a picture of powerless terror as 

 that horse presented, as with eyes starting, body 

 shaking, and limbs stiffened, it was carried down- 



