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THE HORSE. 



bear much. Still, tlie shoe should be turned up a little, so as 

 to clear the ground; the horse will travel safer and better 

 for it. 



You can make a very handy tool for turning up the toe of 

 a shoe b}'' shutting a piece of iron, five inches long and one inch 

 broad, crossM'ise on to each blade of a pair of smith's tongs ; 

 with this tool you will be able to grasp both limbs of the shoe 



Figure 5. 



at once, and not only turn up the toe over the end of the anvil, 

 but restore the seating at the toe without bending the shoe or 

 putting it out of shape, which you could not do by holding one 

 limb at a time in a common tongs, without a great deal of trou- 

 ble. The accompanying cut, figure 5, shows 3^ou this tool in 

 use, with the ground-surface of the shoe uppermost for turning 

 up the toe ; and you have only to reverse it, keeping the same 



