274 THE horse's rescue. 



They thought it would injure the sale of them if the 

 people knew they had ever been stiff; or if they did 

 sell them and they ever got stiff again, no matter 

 what the cause was that made them so, they would be 

 likely to get into a lawsuit ; and that is the case many 

 times, and this is caused by ignorance. If this science 

 was understood it would save a vast amount of trouble 

 fi'om that soui'ce and many others. 



" Joseph," said I, one day, •' I am going to leave this 

 place now. I will leave the unfinished jobs in your 

 care to finish up." 



I made no charges ; presented no bill to any man. 

 This is the place where I received five dollars from 

 Mr. Hatch for curing his horse. He insisted on my 

 takinsf it, and would willins^lv eive me four times as 

 much more. He knew me, and had for many years. 

 He told me, "Take my horse, cure him, and I will 

 pay you your own price." Joe did tl]e work on this 

 horse. I shared equally with him. That left me two 

 and a half dollars, vvrhich is all the reward I have ever 

 ]-eceived from any man for work done for them aside 

 from shoeing in my long life of fort^^-one years bat- 

 tling for the horse 



I must tell you a little stoiy about Mr. Hatch's 

 horse, thea I will leave Auburn city. Mr. Hatch, 

 hearing I was in the city at work on horses, looked 

 me up. Said he: "I have a horse; he is a good 

 seven-year-old liorse; he is stiff, unable to work. He 

 was so when I got him. I traded for him. I want 

 you to go and look at him." 



"I will do so." 



This horse was turned out in a low, wet pasture. 



