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CHAPTER XVIII. 



THE lady's horse — MUST ISOT BE EXPOSED TO STTJMBirNG — 

 LIGHT TIPS WILL WEAR AS LONG AS HEAVY SHOES — 

 HORSES AS HACKS EOR ELDERLY GENTLEifEN — PARK HACKS 

 — CARRIAGE HORSES — ABNORMAL ACTION AND GRACEFUL 

 ACTION — CONCUSSION THROUGH THE IRON SHOE — BEARING 

 REIN FOR * screws' — IT ' PULLS THEM TOGETHER* — CRUELTY 

 THEREOF — ' DOCKING ' A HORSE's TAIL IS VIVISECTION — 

 ' cutting' caused by shoeing — CRUEL MODE OF CURE AT 

 PRESENT EMPLOYED — COACHMEN. 



Equal to the hunter in value is the lady's horse. 

 In the ' Book of the Horse,' we find it said of him : 

 ' He should be free from the slightest suspicion of 

 unsoundness in feet and forelegs, or those tricks of 

 stumbling which lead to falls.' In an editorial 

 article, the ' Morning Advertiser ' has said : ' There 

 can be no doubt that to encase the foot of either 

 man or beast in a hard, heavy, unyielding case or 

 cincture is against every law of Nature. It is 

 equally true that by so doing the delicacy of the 

 foot is impaired, the sensitiveness injured, and, 

 accordingly, the liability of the animal — let us say 

 the horse — to stumble much increased.' This being 

 so, as it undeniably is, a lady's horse should evi- 

 dently be unshod. He would then possess further 



