THE HORSE'S RESCUE. 35' 



is bad enough. His forward legs should stand back 

 of straight. When standing, are all of his feet in a 

 pile? and when moving, trotting, see what strides he 

 makes, and yet it would not sore him if he never had 

 his feet ironed. That has produced this change ; and 

 when ironed it does not wear off. That is not all. It 

 is growing all of the time in some shape, and assumes 

 many ; and with all of the experience I have had I 

 cannot describe these feet. Let us go up a little higher. 

 His chest is all fallen in. That is called chest-founder 

 by people that have no knowledge of the horse. Well, 

 what is it? changed from natural. Being changed in 

 this way, the head is drawn do^^n ; the shoulders drop 

 back, and begin to perish ; he is fastened there. He 

 is worked in that position and wofully deformed, and 

 it is not seen except by a very few and never have been 

 seen ; they are quite natural on their forward parts, 

 and very bad behind, and seem quite natural behind. 

 la some one foot is changed and its mate is quite 

 natural. These feet do not change in pairs. There 

 are all stages of it difficult to describe. My long ex- 

 perience and experimenting and shoeing these poor 

 horses enable me to see it instantW. There are other 

 causes that lame these horses, which I will explain. 

 This poor horse that I have been talking about is 

 changed fore and aft, but I shall have to leave him 

 awhile to suffer, as I have walked with tears in my 

 eyes away from thousands. But 1 will come to his 

 relief and get him out of his trouble before I get 

 through this work. He is not so bad off as he can be 

 made. I will come and see him again. This is the 

 way this work was discovered and perfected, always 



