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stood, the long lists of names laid down in books for 

 effect will be buried with many other dead and useless 

 names and things of the past. There will be no effect 

 to name. Men lose money and their hcrses too. If 

 there is a way to prevent it, and they know it to be a 

 fact, they will grasp it very quickly. All they want 

 is to know that this is a success (and it is, and all of 

 the howling and bawling of these effect doctors will 

 not make it otherwise). 



After working in this town, with no one to help me 

 but my little boy and my wife, I thought I would 

 teach a young man. He had worked at blacksmith- 

 ing a short time, and was trying to learn how to shoe 

 and work on the horse. This horse business requires 

 two good, able-bodied men at least part of the time — 

 one to hold up the feet while the other spreads them. 

 Sometimes he is obliged to hold up more than half of 

 the horse's weight. It takes some strength and cour- 

 age to tackle all kinds of horses in this way, and yet 

 it must be done if these horses that are in this fix are 

 ever to get out of it. This young man saw me do this 

 and helped me some, and yet he did not have confi- 

 dence enough in himself to do it. He could not stand 

 the opposition we were surrounded with. It did not take 

 much to cram him down. I soon saw he would not 

 make a good soldier in this horse fight. He dared not 

 come right out and talk. He was shy. He dared not 

 get up a racket. He could not stand that. I soon 

 saw he would be of little use to me. I wanted fear- 

 less men to introduce this science ; no coward could 

 do it The horse he must not fear ; he must drive and 

 handle him iu many ways, and all strange horses. A.l 



