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not have to know much about the horse in this town 

 to do that. In this town, where they worried so much 

 about my spending my money and so much time, I 

 was obliged to sue two men after waiting one year for 

 my pay for shoeing their horses. One of these men 

 lived in a house that cost forty-five thousand dollars. 

 Bragging all the time about their wealth ; I never 

 heard them brag about their knowledge. The fact is, 

 they did not have much of that. That was a scarce 

 article on the horse in this town. I want to ask these 

 men who this time belongs to, and how much money 

 they have got invested in time. Some folks talk and 

 act as though time belonged to them, and they wanted 

 to monopolize it and convert it all to their own use, 

 as they have many things. I have used as much 

 time, probably, as any man of my age, and others 

 have used it, and yet there seems to be lots of it left. 

 Some use time in one way, some in another. It is used 

 in many ways. Some use it fighting against their own 

 interest and others' at the same time, and do not know 

 it; and that was what the ignorant part of this com- 

 munity was doing in this town for two years fighting 

 me. I suppose they will fight this work if they ever 

 see it. Then they will be fighting against their inter- 

 est It will not hurt the sale of this work ; it will 

 help it to sell. It will call the peoples' attention to 

 see what all this racket is about. That was what I 

 got up so much racket in your town for, to get the 

 people's attention attracted to me. I wanted to teach 

 them something about the horse. I well knew they 

 did not know but little about this great science of 

 workinsc on the horse. After this science is under- 



