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and did, and worked on those lame and crippled 

 horses of all kinds. 



George returned. I asked him how he got through. 

 He told the man the cause, and they removed it bj 

 removing the shoes, and that is the way to cure thou- 

 sands of lame and crippled horses, and never nail or 

 have nailed on any shoes unless it could be done by 

 men that have more and better brains than these men 

 seem to have. A man's work corresponds with the 

 caliber of his brain, quantity and quality and degrees 

 of development, and when this is understood a man 

 will not be in so much danger of being killed for cur- 

 ing stiff and lame horses as I was in Horseheads. It 

 was a hard job for me to cure, and keep cured, so 

 rnanv horses where there was so much slaughtering. 

 They could slaughter twenty times faster than I could 

 cure. One man could do that, and there were hun- 

 dreds at it, and those that I had cured they would 

 slaughter over again if the}^ could get them, and yet 

 I tried to keep up with them. If they had thought 

 of that they might have got me in the asylum. I was 

 experimenting, and they were ignorant of this fact, 

 and had but very little knowledge of the horse or any 

 right or wrong principle to iron a horse's foot. Still 

 they had some power to control others to fight me, and 

 did, and yet after they got through they were as big 

 fools as they were two years before. As for knowl- 

 edge of the horse, I never learned in that way, and I 

 never saw any one that did. I sometimes fight with 

 my mouth to clear away the rubbish, and have to yet. 

 If I paid attention to all who advised me, 1 could 

 never get through. They seemed to differ so on all 



