194 THE horse's rescue. 



of the time he was too weak on his knees. I dropped 

 liini. Tn about one year I went in his shop. He was 

 sliooing horses. The work he was doing looked rather 

 ragged. He told me, " This is the way I am doing it 

 now." 



He was driving in old stubs in the old holes, with 

 the lever all left on the toe, and growing longer all of 

 the time. I said to him : 



" This is not right ; the horse is the sufferer. Your 

 customers will go back on you." 



" Thev do not know the difference " said he. 



In that he was partly right. Some do know when 

 they have got a job that looks well. This ironing a 

 horse's foot is quite a different thing, if botched, from 

 other mechanical work. It causes the horse to suffer. 

 A man can botch a job on a wagon, and yet tlie wagon 

 does not suffer. I have seen and heard some groan as 

 if they feel pain. The cause was a botch job, and it 

 caused the horses to suffer that was drawing these 

 wao^ons. To set the tire too ti^rht on the lumber 

 wagon dishes the wheels one inch each too much. 

 What effect can that have on these deformed horses? 

 Put on forty hundred weight on rutty roads, then you 

 can tell. If the wheel runs in the rut at all it con- 

 stantlv crowds and grinds against the shoulder of the 

 axle This causes the horse to suffer. I have had 

 many of these new-born babes on the horse try to talk 

 and lie me down to build themselves up. 



I shall state here I know the horse's condition has 

 o-rown worse for the last twenty-five years, and for 

 several reasons. Since shoes for the horse, and nails 

 to nail them on, have been made by machinery, the 



