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useful Elliman being applied to cure it. I then 

 went away for a week, and came back to find the 

 trap mare with a red-hot foot limping round the 

 stable. She had run a nail right up into her 

 foot. 



" What did you do for it ? " was the frantic 

 enquiry. 



** Sure I rubbed a taste of ElHman's to it, 

 ma'am, the same as we did to Jerry." 



The shoe off and a poultice saved disaster, but 

 he was with difficulty restrained from poulticing 

 the next strained leg in the stable. 



He has the most extraordinary influence over 

 horses, the worst tempered brute growing quiet 

 with him. " Woa, you little fairy," is the only 

 answer to a vicious kick or bite, and after a month 

 no horse will touch him. 



I have one here now that was a demon in the 

 stable. 



" Cherry Boy, ma'am, is after kicking me agin," 

 he said cheerfully one morning as he Hmped across 

 the yard. 



" Has he hurt you, Cuthbert ? " 



" No, ma'am, sure he had no bad maning in it." 



Blackie, my treasured old black, was a confirmed 

 buckjumper and threw Cuthbert at his leisure. 



" That fairy of a Blackie is afther throwin' me 

 agin," I would hear. " He med a ball of himself 

 in the field." 



There was never a reproach or a blow. Cuthbert 



