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about four miles. It was winter, and that helped to 

 set this lieat a-going, and it increased according to the 

 degrees of contraction, and she w^^nt off her base ac- 

 cording to the degrees of change from natural; and 

 slie went fast, too, and he lost money fast, and she 

 continued to suffer, all caused by Dave Townsend and 

 the owner of the horse's ignorance. This principle of 

 heating horses' feet holds good ; expanding too much 

 will cause heat according to the degree of chano-e 

 from natural. So much for Dave Townsend's skill on 

 the horse. 



Here is another experiment in this town. Georo-e 

 Woodrough is a horse trainer by profession. Geor^^e 

 was my true friend, and so was his father, Dr. Wood- 

 rough. George's stable was close to mine. I let him 

 in my stable after I had been working on these horses, 

 and he knew what I did on their feet. He had a very 

 fine mare, valued at five hundred dollars; he told me 

 she hopped behind; she was not trotting well; she 

 would go level at a moderate gait, but when he 

 wanted her to sail she would tangle up an^ hop on 

 one foot ; he could not keep her level ; he said she had 

 a record and she was going back; I told him it was a 

 limp; he wanted me to look her over; at that time I 

 had not seen her move ; I told him if I could not tell 

 which foot it was she hopped on I could not do any- 

 thing for her. I must see it in the^foot. 



"George, if I tell you which foot she hops on with- 

 out seeing her move you will think I know what ails 

 her. won't you?'' 



'^Yes." 



"It is the nigh foot; that is the foot." 



