330 THE horse's rescue. 



I can produce thousands of horses that are worse off than this horse 

 is shov7n to be. This horse has more ailments than are shown in cnt 

 No. 2. He has been kept in his circle, or, other words, tried to be 

 kept on his base and balance and failed, as all do that try to do it in 

 this way. Cut No. 2 shows the horse throv/n off his base by the soles 

 of his feet rising up. Do not forget it can be done man}^ other ways, 

 about which I have written, if the sole liad been lowered on the 

 principles laid down in this work, he or his body would have gone 

 back on his base. This horse (cut No. 3) has had his feet dressed in 

 such a way it has added more to his trouble, and the first cause still 

 remains, and has grown worse. It is of longer standing. The coffin- 

 joints are badly affected, and all is bad internally. He is sick all over, 

 and not fit to work. Now, I want some man to tell me, if he can, how 

 he is going to get his poor horse out of this troul>le with medicine of 

 any kind, or any treatment excepting the principles laid down in this 

 work. I mean the ailments the horse has at the present day that I 

 treat and write about. I well know this is the right and only way out 

 of this trouble, and the horse should never be in it. But this is the 

 way it is ; how long it will be so I know not. 



The horse shown in cut No. 2 thrown off his base I left in tlie fore- 

 part of this work; at that time I could do no better. Such as he go 

 over backwards often. And this horse (cut No. 3) I left in this work 

 after balancing him as well as I could. Him I came around to see. I 

 found him cocked on his ankles and tipped on his knees. I have no 

 recollection of ever serving a horse in this way in my life ; bui I have 

 straightened thousands of them, and shod them to prevent them from 

 balancing over in the way this is shown in this cut. Some horses can 

 stand and work many years in this condition. They suffer greatly; 

 they are weak ; they cannot draw but a small load compared with a 

 horse that is all sound and natural. I have marked a few lines or de- 

 grees pointing toward the center of the forward drive-wheel. His 

 steps are short; he does not get much balance of power on leverages; 

 the folding cranks do not work ; he is stiff; no knee action ; no action 

 in any way ; he stubbs and pegs ; blunders along ; swaying right 

 and left. He has all he can do to stand on his feet. He can stand 

 .hitched to a load or by the side of another sound horse better than in 

 any other way. This horse is harder to cure than the one shown in 

 cut No. 2, and yet it can be done. In the condition this horse is now 

 in he has but very little action ; you place his forward feet to line D, 

 forming fulcrum at E, How long do you think he could stand cocked 



