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drink, and a bad dinner deserves a good drink to make 

 up for it." A good foot deserves a good shoe, and a bad 

 foot deserves a good shoe to bring it right. Well,^ — 

 but a well is no use without any water, and water is 

 the most essential requisite to bring a pure 

 bred foot into good order, or to keep it in that state. 

 Well, taste the Neufchatel cheese, and then we will 

 separate. That shoe and treatment must be allowed 

 to be the best that keeps the heels the most open, and 

 the foot in the best order. No one particular shoe is 

 suited for all kinds of feet but the shoe of Monsieur 

 Charlier, (as stated in a newspaper lately sent me), 

 not only keeps the heels open and the feet in good 

 order, but opens those heels that are closed, bringing 

 disorganized feet into their proper shape ; moreover, 

 wind-galls are found gradually to disappear under its 

 use. This last effect is beyond measure a most im- 

 portant desideratum, and the discovery is worth a 

 whole field of onions. As, however, you are likely to 

 find many horses which will obstinately resist deriving 

 all the above enumerated advantages, I strongly 

 recommend you to embrace the system you may have 

 gleaned from this more fruitful forge. I have a shoe 

 of my own fancy also, and with it and my treatment 

 wind-galls never appear, unless gained from the sire 

 or dam, consequently you need never be fruitlessly 



