THE horse's rescue. 79 



riorht, his hind feet weet were drawn forward under his 

 bcllv bv contraction and leverage, and were of but lit- 

 tie us(3 to liim. If his fore legs bad been braced for- 

 ward lie would liavc gone over backward. It, would 

 have thrown so much weight on his already overtaxed 

 le<'s, tliev be'ncr so much off their bose. This horse 

 was eight years old; weight about thirteen hundred. 

 Eeader, how would you like to tackle that horse 

 alone as I did ? I had a good sweat. I have thought 

 hundreds of times in my life that the worth of a man's 

 work is not known until he had been dead five hun- 

 dred years, and not always then. I out those feet 

 down nearly half, balancing the horse as well ns I 

 could at that time. His feet were very sore. I put 

 on shoes suitable feu* iiim, pared the sole so it coiiid 

 comedcwnby his weight in the mantierl have ali'cndy 

 described (see page 88), packed his feet with chiy. 

 Remember, no nails back of the widest part of the 

 foot. The next morning, after shoeing this horse, he 

 was harnessed to a onediorse wagon loaded with a 

 small quantity of lumber, and driven at a walk by my 

 orders. He bclonf^^ed to a man that owned a mill and 

 lumber-yard. The horse delivered lumber. I watched 

 his feet. Do not forget to clean in the morning all 

 cut under his shoe. If you do forget it you will fail. 

 This horse was heavj-. I balanced him with his 

 weisrht in the center of foot. 



Cripples come pouring in in alPdegrees of change 

 from natural, interferers, and all kinds but those in a 

 natural condition. Not one of these arrived in the 

 lot. I fixed them all up as well as I could. One 

 horse came that it will be particularly well to men- 



