88 THE HORSE S RESCUE, 



"One hundred and fifty dollars." 



" All right. I will deposit the money in the bank 

 for 3^oa, or I will state before these witnesses, I am 

 good for it, and will pay it if the horse dies from any 

 cause while in my care." 



"How long do you want him?" 



" Four days. Mr. Bennett, this horse is to be under 

 my control four days. If you get dissatisfied during 

 this time you cannot take the horse. You must take 

 one hundred and fifty dollars and the hoi'se is mine." 

 Witnesses w^ere called to that bargain. 



Reader, you can see a man stepping middling high 

 and fast going to my shop leading a suffering horse. 

 In less than five minutes his shoes were off, and bis 

 feet were in warm water soaking. I had shoers at 

 work in the shop ; horses coming all of the time, lame 

 and stiff, to get cured. Horses were going on from 

 bad to worse, caused by shoeing. All wanted me to 

 shoe their horses. I told them, " When I get this 

 horse out of his suffering I will be ready for you." 

 Some of them coming eight or ten times a day, would 

 not let my workmen touch their horses. I had to put up 

 with some abuse. Let them bawl, I must cure this horse. 



Reader, here is a good lesson. Let us examine 

 these feet, the forward ones first. Let us look at the 

 bottom. There is no hollow in this foot. It is, to all 

 appearance, a flat foot. It has been dressed in such a 

 way that the inexperienced could not tell where and 

 how it was changed from natural. The fact is, his 

 feet are filled up. They look all right. His heels are 

 walled up four inches high from coronet down, nearly 

 as high as the foot is lonir from coronet in front to 



