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a de plus grandes fatigues, et il etait aise de voir que 

 les memes soins continues I'auraient mis en etat 

 de se passer de fers toute sa vie ; il fut vendu. Les 

 deux autres n'eurent pas le meme succes : leur 

 corne, gatee par les clous, se fendait et s'exfoliait 

 pour peu qu'ils marchassent ; mais peutetre qu'avec 

 le temps ils se seraient fait un bon pied. 



" Cette epreuve eut lieu dans les mois juillet, 

 aout et septembre ; on ne peut douter qu'elle 

 Ti'eut completement reussi sur des chevaux 

 calabrais, qui ont meilleur pied que ceux de la 

 Pouille." 



Stalls paved as Xenophon describes are not by 

 any means unknown both here and in England. 

 The late E. F. Bowditch, Esq., of Framingham, 

 was a strong believer in them, though he would 

 by no means have approved the hollow hoof de- 

 scribed in Xenophon's first chapter. But of 

 course his horses were shod, and so shod that 

 the frog and heel were very close to the ground. 

 His object in using the cobble-stones was to stimu- 

 late the growth of those parts, and to keep them 

 soft so as to prevent the frog from shrivelling. 

 This softness of the frog and its contact with the 

 ground, he thought, prevented all jar on the foot, 

 the frog acting as a buffer. 



24. (Page 29.) The Greek cared for his body 

 by bathing and rubbing as well as by the free use 



