and prepare themselves to keep horse on their feet so they 

 can always perform their duty. It will add to increase the 

 horse and encourage those who are using them. 



In speaking about horseshoeing, that it is old and of 

 little interest, don't overlook the change and improvements 

 of our highways for horses to travel over. The improve- 

 ments of the roads for the horse seems like a blessing that 

 he will be permitted to travel over roads where the footing 

 is level and firm, because it is not the hard roads that is the 

 cause of so much lameness, as much as unskillful and 

 awkward shoeing or neglect. If from neglect the horse tra- 

 veling on firm footing will soon remind the owner of his 

 carelessness, but just as the footing has been made artificial 

 and firm, so must shoeing be changed and improved accord- 

 ingly and when you understand the meaning in this little 

 book you will then admit that it is not only good, but neces- 

 sary. Understand me, I am not writing and offering this 

 book for sale just to get your money, I have been writing 

 along these lines for the last twenty years, always without 

 money, but now, having put this story into a book form, I 

 must make expenses and live as I work along. If you don't 

 understand it from the first reading, read it again. I know 

 one page of it is worth the price you pay for it, whatever 

 part interests you, and when you understand it, you will ad- 

 mit it, and then advise your neighbor to get one like it, and 

 that is the way to pay for this little book in full. What I 

 am writing is true, and it will always be so. The money 

 you pay for it you will soon forget, but its teachings will 

 benefit you forever because horses' feet will always be as 

 men make them, and, therefore, we must understand and 

 know how to treat them. Now, I do not wish to make you 

 tired reading on one subject, so I am going- to let you read 

 about something else. 



As I said, married life is a science. Men and women 

 should study each other, how they can best please each other 

 and then act accordingly. If married people would try and 



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