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no use to me ; neither are they in the waj of intro- 

 ducing this science, only one gets tired hearing- their 

 bawling-. I li;;ve no trouble only with this class. This 

 is the class all scientific men have more or less trouble 

 with. Ignorance is the cause of all. There are mill- 

 ions of men on this globe that never invented any- 

 thing, and never had one original thought ; if they did, 

 they did not have courage enough to talk or write it, 

 and if all men had been as big cowards as they there 

 would not have been any improvements or discoveries 

 or progression made ; and yet they will talk and brag 

 of their knowledge, and it is all borrowed. It had its 

 origin in other men's brains. They can commit to 

 memory some of these great principles after others 

 have discovered and ])erfected them by applying them- 

 selves, and that seems a hard task. This horse science 

 is diUerent from many other sciences. It requires 

 something besides brains, and yet brains are the first 

 qualification. Without them there cannot be any 

 horses cured. It requires great strength and courage, 

 resolution and firmness. A man that is constantly 

 twirling a handkerchief around a stove-pipe hat, and 

 keeps one or two women constantly washing and iron- 

 ing to keep him starched and clean, and who finds 

 fault with their work, and does none himself, would 

 be of no use to any one in this horse science. Re- 

 moving the cause of these suffering horses is harder 

 work than it is to make them so ; that is, shoeing 

 them, which is what makes them so. There are a few 

 exceptions. I can iron a pair of horse's feet, and drive 

 them a thousand miles, and they would perform the 

 journey better by doing so, and they would suffer 



