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sound, or nearly so; there is nothing the matter with 

 tbem. 



Reader, I have gone off by myself and rolled and 

 laughed about these horse shows at many fairs, and 

 you can do the same when you study the horse. Af- 

 ter you read this work you can see it as quick as I 

 do, if you will give your attention to it. If you do 

 not you must suffer loss, and your horse will suffer. 

 No man on this earth, that has got any fine feelings, 

 would allow his horse to suffer if he could help him 

 out of it, and knew how to do it. You must learn as 

 I did. It need not cost vou fortv-one lone? years of 

 experimenting, and the hardest practical mental and 

 physical labor that a man ever did, and a power of 

 opposition. My God I it makes the tears come in my 

 eyes and my head ache, and back, shoulders, and hips 

 too, to write about it. You need not go through all of 

 this. Tears are no proof that a man is a baby. Be- 

 fore I get through this work you can tell better. I 

 have to laugh sometimes at these horse shows. I can- 

 not help it. I would not if it made the horse suffer. 

 I do not laugh at the movement of the horses. It 

 does me good to laugh. It is no use to tell you what 

 I laugh about. I suppose these great horsemen have 

 seen me off by myself laughing, and that is one reason 

 why they called me crazy. What did I care what they 

 called me, as I well knew thev did not have any knowl- 

 edge of the deformed condition of these poor horses. 

 They were nearly all that had been shod in this con- 

 dition. In some degree you can see this any time 

 where these poor horses are put in motion. 



Here comes Jack Bennett with a double team. This 



