180 THE HORSE'p rescue. 



Stiff and lame horses in his day. They called stiff 

 horses " shook in the shoulders.'^ He said in his writ- 

 ings that the people were "shook in the head," and I 

 think he was right; and that saying holds good 3'et. 

 He said, too, that the cause was in the feet, but be 

 could not get them out of their trouble. The English 

 have spent as much money experimenting on horses' 

 feet as any nation on the globe, without doubt. 

 There are many things to look to at the same time; 

 and in changing these horses all must work in har- 

 mony. The cause of failures in the spreading of 

 horses' feet is due to the fact that the men who have 

 attempted to do the work could see but one thing at 

 one time, and that one thing they did not see as they 

 should. It is very simple when understood. 



My experience and trjnng to introduce this science 

 convinces me that Robert G. Ingersoll's lecture on the 

 "Skulls" is the soundest lecture I ever read or lieard. 

 Bob did not mean to say that the skulls had any knowl- 

 edge in them ; he meant that the brains- that were in- 

 side of the skulls were what did the business. He 

 said in this lecture, at the first start, " Man advances 

 just in the proportion that he mingles his thoughts 

 with his labor. ^' There is more sense conveyed in 

 these few words than whole volumes written by some 

 that are dogging on his track. 



That is the way this work was perfected — mingling 

 thoughts with labor for forty-one years ; and I have 

 had lots of dogs at my heels, but I never felt I was in 

 danger. It is queer ; some folks will not no anything 

 themselves nor let anyone else if they can prevent it. 

 What a lot of trouble they do have I 



