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that mucli too high at least. Pare none from toe; 

 cup it out ; it is filled up; it is hard as a stone. That 

 will do, now. Soak him more; when it gets soft we 

 will cup it more. The doors are open now. Mr. 

 Brees comes in, apron on, to see and talk. His shop 

 is nearly opposite from mine. All in a bluster, he 

 said : " That is not doctoring horses ; that is nursing." 

 "Yes, this horse needed some of that." This uproar 

 was kept up by many in the shop and all over the 

 town. Being in the business of tracing cause to ef- 

 fect and effect to cause, I well knew what ailed them. 

 Beat and excel them was what I wanted to do, and 

 relieve the suffering horse. That is what I went there 

 for. They v/ere all strangers to me. Let them 

 fight while we look at this horse. If you wish to 

 learn a lesson, look at the horse we are working on. 

 Now he stands braced out forward ; now his knees 

 are tipped, yet his cords hurt him. He can scarcely 

 stand. How is that? We cut his lieels down ; tliat 

 is the cause. Where is the weight of that horse 

 now, or what is the effect of cutting his heels clown? 

 Before we did that I told vou how his weight was 

 divided, and the effect of it. This operation throws 

 him off his base with two-thirds of his weicrht on his 

 hind legs, which were also badly off their base before 

 we cut his heels down. He should be balanced or 

 poised in the center, and his equilibrium restored, that 

 is equalize his weicrht on the center of each foot, and 

 balance him between the four. This lookslike a rather 

 hard job, yet it can be done. -It will take a little brain, 

 work withal. We must get rid of some hallooing 

 around this shop; no one can do anything this way. 



