THE horse's rescue. 313 



not spread her forward feet quite enough to let her 

 down between the cup at the top. She was badly- 

 contracted ; she was completely raised out of the cup 

 and shutout by the wall closing up below. By driving, 

 it drove the sole down, not being room at the top of 

 the wall for the bone to go down. She got pinched or 

 wedged in the cup. After driving awhile I saw she 

 was not going well. I soon saw the cause. Her feet 

 began to bulge out at the top and both sides It was 

 too late then to help that ; it made her sore only a few 

 days, then all was right; if the feet had been spread 

 one quarter or over an eighth of an inch more she 

 would have sailed all right This was the first and 

 last time I ever got pinched in that way. I explained 

 the whole thing to Mr. Westlake and have talked with 

 him since ; his mare was cured for all that ; it only set 

 her back a little. All horses that I worked on were in 

 Auburn citv at that time, but that mare I have lost 

 track of. I offer fiftv thousand dollars to anv man 

 that will brinsf me a man that never made a mistake 

 in life. I want to see him ; it would be a big sight to 

 ma 



I will pass on now. I could write about thousands 

 of horses that I have worked on. It's of no kind of 

 use. All are cured by the principles that are laid 

 down in this work. That is what I claim ; and more, 

 it will almost raise a horse that is r.early dead, and this 

 is a fact, as strange as it may appear to some. This 

 great science is classed with the highest ; it is one of the 

 great sciences of the sciences. It cannot be grasped 

 at once by men of small caliber of brain, but they can 



