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and it would be better if he could go without shoes 

 unless the work is done better than this seems to be. 



Let us move this horse around, and see how much 

 he is out of harmony of action, before I commence 

 work on liim, and we will watch the result. After 

 you read this, look arounJ, and you may see some 

 cases as bad as this. There are not many put in mo- 

 tion that are as bad as this horse had got to be. They 

 are so out of harmony they cannot be put in motion 

 and run in any way. The whole business is com- 

 pletely tied up and clogged internally and externally , 

 cords all out of place; structure of feet all out of har- 

 mony of action, and no two feet alike, consequently 

 no two of the cords of the legs are alike. This horse's 

 shoulders were not mates. One foot had been worse 

 than the other for some time, and was yet. Certainly 

 it will require some brain work to get this horse sail- 

 ing on the road in two days. I told the boy that if he 

 would take good care of Billy I would not charge him 

 except for shoeing the horse; and he did take good 

 care of him, '"Stand around, Billy." Heavens! I 

 cannot describe this horse so you can tell how badly 

 ofif he was from so small cause, and that is ignorance, 

 blind and wilfullv so. But I have started and I must 

 go through. When this horse was made to move he 

 straddled his hini Icofs the widest of any horso I ever 

 saw of his size, and raised them the highest. It was 

 done with a stiff and slow motion^ He was \-ery nerv- 

 ous, an'd seemed to tremble when I made him move. 

 I backed him, and he dragged his feet and his hind 

 legs ; he seemed to have but little control of them. 

 Some would call this spring-halt. It was not that, for 



