CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



^ Aberloriia's ' Second Letter in ' Farm Journal ' — His 

 second Horse shod with Tips — Putting on Tips — 

 His Experience in South America of the Exuberance 

 of Growth of Horn and its Touf^hness, in Unshod 

 Horses — Shod Horses go lame over good roads, 

 whilst the unshod ones go sound over those of the 

 very worst description — Ignorance of People in Eng- 

 land of the Nature of a Horse's Foot — * The Lancet ' 

 on the Indefensibility, in a Physiological Light, 

 of the Use of Horseshoes — Success of two Gentle- 

 men in working unshod Horses in England — News- 

 paper Complaints, about the Slipping of Horses, and 

 Stoppage of Traffic on Ludgate Hill — The false Light 

 in which Slipping is looked at 119 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Ludo:ate Hill only rises about four feet in every hun- 

 dred — Societies — The Bearing Reiii only required on 

 Cripples 129 



CHAPTER XV. 



Brittle Hoof — Ignorance of Farriers — ' Impecuniosus ' 

 says the existing Ideas on the Horse's Foot have 

 sprung from wrong roots altogether — Fearnley says 

 ' The Oharlier is the most Common-sense Shoe ever 

 invented ' . . . 135 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Custom of H. Jennings of training Racehorses unshod, 

 and running them in their Races with Tips on their 

 Fore Feet, with the Hind Feet bare — ^Evening 

 Standard,* instance of impaired Sight in a Young 

 Lady from wearing high Heels on her Boots — 



