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these lessons so I could talk them. I may give a 

 shoi't lecture i"hat I have learned from these teachers 

 after I get this work out I can talk it bettei than I 

 can write it. It is very complicated. It requires 

 quite an expert to talk eight or nine men's lessons and 

 carry them all along at the same time, and all disagree- 

 ing on all points, opinions, and beliefs. The more a 

 man believes the less he knows. The more he knows 

 the less he believes. A man that is satisfied with what 

 he has got of knowledge is never prepared for any 

 more. 



I have no power to convey with my pen these horse 

 ]essons that I have had. I think after taking five or 

 six hundred more I will be able to talk it. I am going 

 to try to learn them. If I can learn to talk nine men's 

 talk at one time on the horse, that will be a big thing. 



It has been now one month since you have heard 

 from the old white mare. It has been all of this long 

 month the same thing — continued talking, shoeing, 

 and working on all kinds of lame and crippled horses, 

 early and late, sometimes all night. These few horses 

 that I write about are only now and then one of thou- 

 sands I have worked on in forty-one years. This 

 fight for the horse has been a long one, and it is not 

 over yet. We are just getting in the hottest of it now, 

 but the hotter the battle the more glorious the victory 

 — for that we are going to have. It has got started, 

 and it cannot be stopped. Too many have seen this 

 work done — scientific men, which I shall refer to be- 

 fore I get through this work. 



This old mare is doing, finely. She must have her 

 feet dressed as before and spread a little. I did not 



