48 THE HORSES RESCUE. 



^^'No ; they say yoa can cure these horses by shoe- 



ing. 



"I can help some of them for a while. I can help 

 this one a little." 



This horse is different from the one just shod. His 

 feet are cup feet. His shoulders are perished some. 



'^ Yes ; some say he is sweenied." 



*' Ever doctor them ?" 



"Yes; we inflated him." 



"What's that?" 



"Pull the skin up like this, all loose; cut a little 

 hole in ; jerk it back and forward, and it will fill up 

 ■with wind. Well, it made it look full, and plump, and 

 soft. Before I got home it was all gone down again." 



" How much did it cost you ?" 



" A dollar. I've paid out lots of money doctoring 

 this horse, and he gets worse every da3^ and I have to 

 doctor his water-works every little while now." 



"I see his shoulders have been blistered " 



"Yes; I've blistered them and his cords on the 

 backside of his legs and across his loin." 



"Ever try setons?" 



" Yes, in both shoulders, and I had him roweled in 

 the breast, and a fellow told me to cut the skin open 

 on the shoulders and take smoked meat rinds, put 

 them in, and sew them up, and let them rot out; that 

 was a sure cure for sweeny." 



"That help him?" 



" ISTo." 



" What do you give him for his water now?'* 



"Turpentine." j 



"How mucli at a time?** 



