838 THE horse's rescue. 



ness is summed up in leverage, the balance around a center of lever- 

 power. 



We will go to work on the foot, or base, again. The heel is 

 double. If you cut those heels one lower than the other, or 

 cork or ciake your shoe of unequal thickness in any waj', j'ou 

 will throw the weight of the horse unequal on the double heel by 

 throwing weight past the center. Throw it either way, you set a 

 fulcrum of levers to work at the toe of the foot. That ought not to 

 be there. By constantly throwing and changing the weight from 

 one heel to the other past the center, that causes the double heel 

 to work up and down. Those levers form fulcrum at the toe of the 

 foot, constantly expanding or contracting at the heel, and these 

 levers form fulcrum at the toe. The}'- act horizontal, the end of 

 lever growing on tlie toe of foot, the sole raising in the center. 

 There is another fulcrum of levers, all working together, \vith the 

 one on the end of too forming fulcrum with another at the center 

 of foot, right over the coffin-joint, one lifting, one pulling down, 

 throwing the horse off his base, as shown in cut No. 2. This tip- 

 back and pull-down lever has a double action : it works both ways 

 from its fulcrums; it tips the horse over on iiis nose sometimes. 

 lean prepare and iron any horse's feet and throw liim over back- 

 ward, and no power can make him stand, and I will do it with a 

 lever. I can do it m this way: Cup out the feet, iron them, take a 

 pair of tongs, and close the shoes together. That is done with 

 lever-power. It will raise the sole of the foot in the center, 

 throw the horse off of balance, and hold him. I can throw him 

 over back, and down. The Creator of him cannot raise him. I 

 will not put anything on him ou\v the slioes He mnsc lie there 

 until I use the lever again. This trnie T expand the foot (that is 

 done with a lever), let him go back on the base, and the shoes are 

 levers forming fulcrums at the toe. These principles all work the 

 same on all feet ami all horses and mules. 



To close up this l')ug sjory, I will tell you how many centers and 

 fulcrums of leverages there are in the horse to bo thrown out of 

 center and in center, caused by expansion and contraction, leverage, 

 runover-feet, improper dressing of the four bases or foundation of 

 the horse, throwing the horse off his four bases, throwing him off 

 of balance, in many degrees and ways. There are thirty-five, one 

 at whirlbone, stifle, gambrel. ankle, pastern, and coffin-Joint. These 

 are the hind-centers on one leg. There is the same number tor- 



