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shoes on at that. These horses can never recover 

 from their lameness with this lever on the toe, and 

 growing longer all the time, and the foot made still 

 sorer by the most barbarous treatment a man ever wit- 

 nessed— that of burning. Horses treated in this way- 

 would be disabled for six months at least. I have 

 watched the result of this butchery, and have seen no 

 cure and no relief. Keader, do you want to know bow 

 I look on these burners of horses? They put me in 

 mind, when I see them at work on the horse, of the 

 wild and uncivilized savages tattooing themselves and 

 each other by burning and disfiguring their own bodies ; 

 and yet these fine-feeling men have threatened me and 

 my brothers, J. J. and Oliver Doan, with prosecution 

 for crueltv to animals. What innocent and sympa- 

 thetic barbarians these men are ! 



This horse I have been writing about in the fore 

 part of this work is not yet as bad as he can be made. 

 I may get around and see him again. I have many 

 horses to watch, many miles apart, and some hundreds 

 of miles This watching has been kept up all my life. 

 Let us go back and look at this second^ horse, which I 

 left in this work — the one T had such a hard time bal- 

 ancing up between contraction and leverage. It has 

 been some time since I have seen him. His knees and 

 ankles were straight when I shod him. He is now 

 tipped on knee and ankle on both his forward legs;, 

 both ankles behind are crooked. His head is down ; 

 ankles swollen all around ; cords seem to be thickened 

 up; he looks bad. Poor horse, they have got you in 

 a bad fix. I suppose the reader will want me to tell 

 the cause of this horse's trouble, and the way out of 



