stand each other, study each other and thereby keep love in 

 circulation like a horseshoer should understand the science 

 of shoeing. I know it is a heart-breaking job to under- 

 stand and study the anatomy of a horse's foot. Do not 

 think that the foot is only like a block of wood, or a solid 

 mass of horn. Suppose you take a look at the inside of a 

 phonograph, how wonderfully it is constructed, or take the 

 works of a valuable watch, but all these wonders pale when 

 it comes to the living machinery of a horse's foot, with its 

 bones, joints, laminaes, velvety tissues, planter cushion, 

 horny frog, sold and wall, tendons and ligaments or main 

 springs and hair springs, so to speak, etc., all enclosed in an 

 envelope like. To study and understand the working ap- 

 paratus of a horse's foot it is similar to trying to 

 read a letter in an enclosed envelope. Of course, 

 you can open the envelope and read it, you have been to 

 school and know how, and that's the way we must learn to 

 understand the anatomy of a horse's foot and a part above, 

 both in health and disease. You have to take a foot and 

 limb from a dead horse, remove the hide, separate the parts 

 and boil the horny hoof from the internal parts. At the be- 

 ginning to understand the anatomy and functions of a 

 horse's foot, where there aren't any schools or teachers, is 

 rather a slow process and at first somewhat disinteresting, 

 and very few think anything of it. It is like somebody 

 plants a tree, nobody pays any attention until it has grown 

 to some degree of usefulness ; then when its branches have 

 spread in beauty, and we sit beneath its grateful shade we 

 then say how good and thoughtful some men are. The 

 shade of such trees can be enjoyed for the future of our 

 life, and only he who plants a tree can hope to enjoy the 

 shade from it, and only he who studies the science of shoe- 

 ing can hope to understand it and reap reward from it. 

 We can all learn it if we want to learn it bad enough. We 

 can learn anything if we have the mental capacity to do so. 

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