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way behind. It is the best he can do. If he was 

 untied he would show them some good stepping. It 

 is no use trying as I am now. Tliese are facts, and 

 can be seen at any fair in the United States. 



There is a cause for this condition of the horse, and 

 it cannot be removed by bawling at me. You will 

 not learn these great truths that way, nor will you any 

 other great science. The horse is a machine, and so is 

 man. The horse is a horizontal machine, and more 

 complicated than man; for this reason: he has four 

 legs and four feet to balance his weight on, and he 

 must be balanced in the center at the same time, and 

 the structure of all four feet must all be in harmony 

 of action when he is put in motion, or you will see a 

 bad movement, and the motion will cause heat and 

 soreness. 



You let him stand still. When in this condition he 

 suffers greatly. The soreness will disappear some 

 when he is still. As soon as you put him in motion 

 it increases. The more you run him the more he is 

 obliged to suffer, while in this condition. And that is 

 not all ; he is divided against himself in many ways, 

 and on no two feet alike. There are hardly two 

 horses to be found that are out of harmony alike, and 

 and in the same degree of change. 



A man (that is, he thinks he is a man ; he is large 

 enough in bulk), knowing I was writing this book, 

 told me he would give a dollar to read it. 



'' But I don't care anything about your book,'' said 

 he. 



If it was a child five years old talking like that, we 

 ought to, and would, make some allowance, but when 



