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less I talked and tried to teach it. The first thing was 

 to tackle the first cripple I could get. This was the 

 second time I had been in tliis place. Through the 

 influence of some of my friends, after a long time, I 

 got a cripple to work on. In a short time I found 

 myself obliged, in my old age, to work for less pay 

 than I ever had in m}' life, and nothing but cripples 

 to woi'k on. Of these I had more than I wanted 

 The price of shoeing was dropped down as soon as I 

 opened my shop. Of course I must do it the same, 

 or have no woi'k, and m}^ work was all stiff, lame 

 cripples, four times as much work to do it. My 

 health was not good enough to do this ; it wasn't what 

 I opened this shop for. I had made up m}^ mind to 

 cure no more horses by expanding their feet for no 

 pay and make others rich and grow poor mj^self, and 

 they not learn or even try to learn this great science. 

 I will bury. As for killing myself, and all for no pur- 

 pose, only being in hell red-hot all the time, that busi- 

 ness is about plaj^ed out. 



Reader, this is the way I began to reason with my- 

 self. I found my brothers began to feel the same. 

 They had done thousands of dollars' worth of work 

 to try to introduce this work, and yet no help c;;me. 

 That is what we wanted. We wanted the people to 

 give their attention and see and learn this science. I 

 have had men in my shop getting their horses shod, 

 who, when I tried to tell them what made their hoises 

 stiff, would say : "I don't want to hear anything 

 about it. I am in a hurrv; I never had a stiff horse 

 in mv life." These same men's horses were so stiff 

 they could not back without drngging every foot. Th© 



