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upon the common plan, and in the early 

 stages of contraction. We find he has on 

 wide-web shoes, weighing about twenty 

 ounces e:ch ; these may be smooth in front 

 and calked behind ; they bear upon the sole 

 and heel. In place of a frog, we discover a 

 point of hard, shrunken, cracked substance, 

 neither frog nor sole. We cut the clenches 

 and take oft 7 the relic of ignorance and bar- 

 barism, throwing it with hearty good-will in- 

 to the only place fit to receive it the pile of 

 scrap-iron. We examine carefully to see 

 that no stub of nail is left in. The heels will 

 be found long and hard. Our object being 

 frog-pressure, to get the vivifying action of 

 this tactile organ upon the ground, we pare 

 down the whole wall ; we soon come to signs 

 of a corn perhaps a drop of blood starts ; but 

 as we do not intend to put the weight upon 

 the heels, we are not alarmed. Having cut all 

 we can from the heels and still finding that 

 the frog, when the shoe is laid on, can not 

 touch the ground, we Tcnock down the last 

 two calks and draw the heel of the shoe thin; 

 this must give us a bearing upon the frog 



