THE horse's rescue. 19 



will be business enough. It is not the intention of 

 this work to keep up this changing back to natural, 

 but it will have to be done many years before the 

 people will learn these principles, and there are millions 

 of horses in all stages of suffering; some are there and 

 some have just started. It will be a long time before 

 this will be understood. Iris not the intention of this 

 work to keep up the curing stiff and lame horses; the 

 preventive is what I want to teach and introduce; but 

 before the owner can prevent he must know how to 

 cure; then, in this case, he has the preventive that I 

 will explain about in the course of this work, scientifi- 

 callv. 



A FEW REMARKS IN DEFENSE OF THE ABUSED AND 

 WRONGED HOKSE-SHOER. — THE QUALIFICATIONS 

 HE NEEDS TO MAKE HIM A GOOD ONE. 



He should weigh about one hundred and seventy- 

 five pounds, his working weight; five feet seven inches 

 tall, size around under his arms forty inches, broad- 

 shouldered, short-necked, something like a bull; mus- 

 cle and strength equal to the best well-fed stallion ; a 

 large amount of courage, physical force, firmness, and 

 resolution; an inexhaustible amount of patience, so as 

 to enable him to come to time when he is kicked 

 across the shop, or turned a summersault; his head 

 should liave a reasonable amount of brains ; he should 

 have a mild and passive nature, so he can stand perse- 

 cution without showing any signs of anger when he 

 is told twenty times a day, by Jones or Tom or Jirn, 

 or that old "They say," the father of all lies, 

 that he lias spoilt his horse, and he can never set 



