190 THE horse's rescue. 



was trying to support herself and her children. ISTot 

 one cent will I ever pay to any authority in this town 

 or in any other for the use of this day you call Sun- 

 da}^, for this personage 3^ou call * They ' to convert to 

 his or their own use; but I do intend to have a lot in- 

 dicted before the grand jury for violating the license 

 law on all days, at the next court, if they do not stop 

 drugging these poor fools, causing them to kill them- 

 selves and others, and misuse and kill and cause to 

 be killed their helpless horses, and endanger innocent 

 parties, and place the lives of children and all living 

 things in jeopardy. And this is not all ; it is very an- 

 noying to me when I am at work on Sunday. If it is 

 not stopped soon I shall appeal to the courts." 



This lecture was delivered in front of the ofSce of 

 the boss of the town. Let us go on to the shop. 

 There will be a lot of cripples waiting. That racket 

 is stopped. I wonder what will come next. 



Reader, I suppose you want to know how the old 

 white mare gets along. It has been four weeks since 

 she had her feet spread. The same shoes have been 

 on all that time. She has been driven every night in 

 some by-road. She is not lame, and is growing fat — 

 improving slowly. She must have her feet dressed 

 and spread again. Her feet do not dry up now, and 

 there is not much fever in them. I cupped out her 

 feet and pared the shell properly for this spreading 

 operation. It is the same proces . It is by degrees I 

 am doing this. It could not be done on this mare all 

 at once, she was so badly rolled up. I closed up the 

 shoes, nailed them on, soaked the feet soft, and spread 

 them one-quarter of an inch again. That let the sole 



