THE HORSE'S RESCUE. Q'6 



talked all the time, teaching. The shoe was a coarse 

 botch of a thing ; not concave ; creased in the middle; 

 heavy nails ; long, pointed toe, with high toe-corks and 

 high heel-corks. In fact, one of the biggest botches I 

 ever saw. When I got these creams dressed np thej 

 had colts' feet, and their bodies came back on their 

 base; weight in the center. They were sore in their 

 cords. The cause was removed. I explained it all to 

 the owner three or four times over, and told him that 

 in a week thej would be all right; if they were not I 

 would take them and pay him what they cost him. 

 A week afterward I was sitting on the verandah at 

 my house, and I saw the creams coming down the 

 road ; heads up, good knee-action, feeling fine. He 

 stopped. 



"Doan, my horses are as sound as ever they were." 

 " Yes, that's all right." "Say, now, look here ; tell 

 me what you did to those horses. No man shall shoe 

 these horses but you." 



"Go where you please to get your shoeing done." 

 My God! what good did all of that talk do? I 

 told him again, "Look out for that lever purchase." 



My brother Oliver and myself had those horses and 

 thousands of others of that kind to cure of "chest 

 founder '' — some over and over again. Talk and work 

 and teach, and no one w^ould learn ! Horses came 

 blistered and with setons in shoulders. The fact is, the 

 owners looked at us and not at the horse. After 

 you read this book, go and look at the horse. 



"Well, we have had a hard day putting these poor 

 horses on their base and balance. In all stages and 



