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do not want moved ; and this work on the horse, if I 

 mistake not, will remove some deep-rooted errors of 

 longer standing than any stiff horse living at this day. 

 The horse has suffered hundreds of years on this 

 globe, all caused by error and ignorance, and many 

 times dishonesty in many ways. I hear many times 

 when I am talking for the horse, " He is a big blower." 

 If I could not talk more sense than some of these 

 blowers talk on the horse I would never open my 

 mouth again. They know but little or nothing about 

 the condition the horse is in. This I well know, and 

 I will give my reasons for knowing. But very few 

 ever have worked on the horse's feet^ and those that 

 have did not do it right ; and all of these men that 

 are bawling around me never worked on the horse's 

 feet. How can they know anything about it with their 

 horses all stiff? How can you know so much? It 

 took me forty-one years almost, days and parts of 

 nights, and many nights all night. Many and many 

 are the nights I have lain in bed studying on this work 

 until light, and not slept one wink Days and nights 

 I have experimented. This work cost money, *nd I 

 earned it all. It cost me forty-one years of lhe hard- 

 est mental, physical, and practical labor a man ever 

 endured, and lots of persecution and abuse by jealous 

 fools. 



I will say right here that when I get stuck on this 

 lior.se business I will send for :some of these great 

 teachers that have been trying to teach me so much. 

 I will let them know when I want them. With all 

 this hard labor I have stuff enough left in me now to 

 face a regiment of such bawling fools. They are of 



