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go to school to these great teachers to see what great 

 discoveries they have made on the horse Some have 

 never been out of the town in which they were born. 

 If they can tell me how and on what theory or plan 

 the}^ obtained so much knowledge of the horse's foot 

 and the cause that threw him in this deformed condi- 

 tion, without any experience or experimenting, tliey 

 will f'onfer on me a great favor. They can make their 

 independent fortune out of that. It will do away 

 with exnerimentino- on all things, and save a vast 

 amount of useless labor. This is the way all great 

 things have been perfected. It will save mental taxa- 

 tion. I wish I had known this new theory forty-one 

 years ago ; m}^ back and hips and shoulders would not 

 ache so while I am writing this work. I have heard 

 in my life folks talk about using common sense. How 

 plenty that article is I know not. There is not much 

 used for the benefit of the horse, that I know. The 

 article of reason, talking, and working on the horse is 

 almost out of use. Judgment, there is lots of that of 

 all kinds. There is all degrees of it. They all differ 

 using judgment. There is good and poor judgment 

 used on the horse. Of that article ninety per cent 

 used is very poor. Useless opinions and beliefs are 

 used by the wholesale. Still the horse suffers. Igno- 

 rant men have the impudence to tell me I cannot cure 

 these horses, and never did. Any one would think, to 

 hear them talk, they knew all things, and were in all 

 places at the same time. ISTow I want these poor fools 

 to tell me how they know I cannot cure these horses. 

 Thev are in one place drawing manure, which they 

 can t^o after somebody has made the wagon to draw it 



