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toe and shorten. The lieels are ]ow enough. ^Mie 

 structure is very nearly all iwht. Easv toe to ri<e 

 on; narrow web shoe; little thicker at heel.. Short 

 corks; heel a little higher than toe. She is shod. 

 Take a side view of her now. She stands back further 

 on her feet." 



"Is that so?" 



!Nro; her body has gone forward. ISTow her body 

 has all gone forward. Her fore legs stand further 

 back of straight. The weight is more equal on the 

 center of foot, and sh-e is on her foundation or base, 

 and her head has gone up a little more. Let us go to 

 the barn. Kit, by golly, we will make some of the 

 great horsemen's eyes stick cut on this job. Kit, we 

 are going to take a sail now. Clean out under shoe. 

 This frog is flattening out. That's all right. Pile in. 

 Let us go up on the Kidge road. That va getting woi-n 

 down smooth. Let us drive moderate for a while, and 

 let her get used to the change. It is a little weaken- 

 ing to be changed so suddenly, and, that, too, one end 

 at a time. She will soon recover from that. She is 

 changed toward natural. She is even with herself in- 

 stead of five or six feet behind, which I will show bv 



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cuts, and by principles that will not lie, before I get 

 through this work. Try yourself, Kit. Gollj^ ! see 

 how she flattens out. See where her hind feet strike, 

 outside of her forward feet. All clear five or six feet 

 ahead. You begin to be as youj- creator made vou. 

 To-morrow is the day you are to show those boys 

 what you can do. Whoa ! Into the barn ; rub until 

 dry. Pack forward feet. Gjod, bright, clean hay; 



