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I have relieved it in a small degree. But it was only 

 in a small field that I could work compared with this 

 wholesale torturing that is going on. 



I am fiftv-five years of ao^e ; mv health is orivins: out • 

 I feel I am getting stiff, too. I have laid the ham- 

 mer down to write this woik to still keep up the bat- 

 tle to free the suffering horse, and to see if I can work 

 a larger field and on a better plan to introduce this great 

 discovery that has cost me so much mental and physical 

 labor for forty-one years. If I fail to introduce it, and 

 let it be buried again, I have made a failure of life 

 after all. 



The horse suffers greatly in many ways. The 

 cause of the greatest suffering is in his feet. That I 

 will explain and teach. I have not quit yet, nor 

 ever will, while I am alive. I do not know as I shall 

 after I am what they call dead. I shall be at the front 

 under all circumstances. No matter how much the op- 

 position, 3'ou will find me at my post. If you want to 

 know something of the suffering of the horse,- if you 

 ever had the toothach® bad, you can judge a little. 

 That is no comparison to what the horse suffers* 

 There is nothing it can be compared to. I v^^ill tr}^ to 

 convey something of it, which I well know I have not 

 the power. 



To begin, the structure of the foot is chanD:ed from 

 natural in many ways and in many different stages. 

 Ponder, think ! Can this take place without an effect? 

 I well know it cannot. All men must see this. I ap- 

 peal to all thinking naturalists and scientific men for 

 their aid to help introduce this work. There are 

 three Doan brothers. Thev have been battling: for 



