142 THE HORSE S RESCUK 



was going to make a trot, to please the owner, and 

 charged no extra pay ; but I followed the horse to 

 watch his movement and action; and many are the 

 horses I have shod in forty-one years, and followed in 

 this way. 



This show of horses is not all over here yet at this 

 fair. I am here following Jack Bennett's star stallion. 

 He will not show himself until these amblers and 

 shufflers and single-footers get through. Here comes 

 one down the track. My golly ! How he does amble 

 and single-foot. 



This is Hiram McConnell's champion stallion. He 

 is not old. He was once called a trotter. He belongs 

 to a horse doctor, and his home is in the same stable 

 with Billy Crawford. He is a long distance behind in 

 this great horse show. This horse I have looked over 

 manv times before he came to this horse show of 

 speed. Tiiere is a cause for this slow, stiff, straddling, 

 single-footing, ambling motion, and I Veil know what 

 it is; but there is no use talking when you 'are all 

 alone in the fight for the horse. Their time is more 

 taken up in trying to make themselves and others 

 believe I am crazy. This-was red-hot in this town. 

 The more big things I did on the horse, the crazier I 

 got. My, my ! 



This stallion was changed from natural in many 

 ways, and in many degrees of change, and every foot 

 was changed different from the others, and differ- 

 ent degrees of change ; and he was so sore he could 

 hardly straddle around the track. Sometimes, when 

 looking at the deplorable scene. I feel bad, and think 

 there is no use. They brag and call these horses all 



