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sible frog diminishes. As the sensible frog diminishes 

 so the fatty frog — the elastic cushion — diminishes, 

 and loses its soft unctuous matter, bringing it step by 

 step, perhaps not to the cart, but more certainly to 

 the charnel house. This state is greatly accelerated 

 by allowing the coachman (who firmly believes that the 

 inside of a horse's foot consists of one large piece 

 of solid flesh, which if squeezed a little behind will 

 push out in front " and be none the worse for it,") 

 to take the horses to Farrier Kno wall's to see, them 

 properly shod. It would be invidious to apportion out 

 the exact quantity of blame to be divided between the 

 master, the driver, and the farrier ; but the owner may 

 rest assured that when the foot is dissected, "just as 

 the season is coming on," the ends of one of the 

 back sinews which ought to have been partially im- 

 bedded in the naturally soft, fatty, elastic cushion, 

 will, from having been in contact with some dried-up 

 unyielding mass instead, invariably be found spread 

 out into the following capital letters — SEKVES YOU 

 RIGHT. The only effectual cure known for this state 

 after lameness has commenced, consists in giving six 

 drops of coffin drawback every six hours, striking the 

 coffin-bone at the toe at the same time with a sledge 

 hammer. Do not omit the sledge hammer. 



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