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two wheels on one side are tired with bad, soft, 

 and badly worked iron ; the other two made of 

 the best material, and thoroughly well ham- 

 mered. After a few journeys we will look at the 

 wheels, we shall find the first two worn down to 

 the fellies, the others fit to go the same number 

 of miles again. 



Horses' legs are not made of iron it is true, nor 

 are they hammered in their manufacture, though 

 hammered enough after they are made ; but they 

 are made of a material or materials, and on the 

 goodness of these, and the way in which nature 

 has put them together, mainly depends one horse 

 being fresh on his legs, while another is stale or 

 lame, though each horse performed the same ser- 

 vice, and each had the same care. 



I have remarked that, on the average, crooked 

 legged horses are mostly pretty good goers ; that 

 is, have good action. I do not of course mean to 

 infer that crooked legs produce the action ; but I 

 consider the action produces crooked legs, and if 

 it produces nothing worse, such a horse, though 

 he may have done much duty, will in all proba- 

 bility do as much more. Such legs are a little 

 unsightly when standing still, we must allow ; 

 but they can go. 



If the horse naturally stands over at his knees, 

 I do not believe he will become from work at 

 all more so than any other ; perhaps he is less 



