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tising, bat that was not all I wanted. I wanted them 

 to learn and know how this was done. 



When I first commenced in this place, the landlord 

 bought a good four-year-old horse. I stood near when 

 thej was looking this horse over. I saw he was off 

 his base. Of course it is no business of mine. They 

 are nearly all so in some degree, greater or less. I did 

 not have anything to say. I saw he had a hard, horn- 

 like foot, and he would be likely to have me shoe him. 

 He would be kept up in the j^table ; he would grow 

 worse and get stiff, in spite of all I could do, in a short 

 time; and he did gradually grow worse. The winter 

 before he was sick; in the spring he would get down, 

 or cast, and had to be helped up, caused by contrac- 

 tion throwing him off his base or balance, and fasten- 

 ing him there. This winter he stood in the stable 

 nearly all of the time. His owner did not have much 

 for his horses to do. He did not get out much him- 

 self, his health not being very good. Time slipped 

 away unperceived, and this horse stood with his shoes 

 on all winter, without being reset or having his feet 

 cut down. His feet had grown high and long in this 

 condition, all out of harmony of action. They gave 

 him a thirty-two mile drive after a load, up and down 

 heavy hills, which about floored him. He was so sore 

 and stiff he could hardly move. He would not move 

 unless he was made to. Of course I was always around 

 when these wrecks took place. I knew about what 

 time they would take place. I told Mr. Ives, for that 

 was his name, what ailed his horse, and I thought I 

 could cure him. "lean remove the cause of all of 

 his trouble. It will be a hard job ; his feet are in 



