122 THE hokse's rescue. 



Trj that. Do not set any more troublesome fellows 

 on me." That stopped that i-acket. 



But let us dispose of this iron-gray. I kept this 

 gray two weeks. The owner took her home. Slie 

 had her spreaders on. I told him he must put her in 

 the team and work her ; it would help her shoulders 

 by drawing to come back to their place. She was 

 nearly all right. I saw him drawing coal with her. 

 She was traveling fine, and on her base ; good action. 

 I charged him to not take her shoes off. I would do 

 that when it was time. I told him to drive around so 

 I could see her when he came to town. He lived 

 about three miles away. He did not pay me for keep- 

 inc^, shoeincr, or curinsr when he took her away, but I 

 was safe enough. He owned three farms. I was very 

 busy. I thought he v^ould come around. I had no 

 time to run after him. He was to come to me. Time 

 passed, and I did not see or hear from him. He was 

 almost a stranger to me when I took his horse to cure. 

 In about six months this man drove up to my shop 

 with this same mare, the stiffest I ever saw. If one 

 can be much stiSFer than another, she had the extra 

 touch. She was thrown back further off her base than 

 she was when I first commenced on her. I was sur- 

 prised to see him and her too. I asked him what he 

 had been doing. He told me Dave ToMmsend told 

 him to pull those spreading shoes off. They were 

 pulled off in his shop soon after she went out of my 

 control. This was the reason I did not see him 

 around. Mr. Townsend ran a shop in Ilorseheads. 

 He tried hard to make the people believe I was crazy. 

 I was very much in his way. He worked a very small 



