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resting entirely upon the external one, the consequence is 
that the body is sustained by the nails and rivets of the shoe 
The edges of the shoe are in a great measure under-hammered 
(sous -marteltes), so that the lower surface is too large for the 
foot, and so often occasions cutting.” 
This last sentence (in which the English word, under-ham- 
mered ', is introduced by himself) is not altogether intelligible 
to us ; though the latter part of it is sufficient to show, to 
what wretched quarters he must have gone for his specimen 
and description of English shoeing. 
“In England, every farrier has always on hand three or 
four thousand horse-shoes ready forged. This puts one in 
mind of the depots of the (human) shoe-makers in Paris, 
where a customer is sure to meet with a fit.” 
M. Rey remarks upon one man, instead of two, being 
engaged in paring our feet and nailing on shoes, and admits 
that such is an easier operation for the horse; but is silent as 
to the advantage of one man doing the work of two. He also 
admits the readiness with which feet are pared out with a 
drawing knife, an instrument they call couteau Anglais ; though 
he says it is insufficient when there is a great deal of horn to 
remove, their instrument (the butteris) being then required. 
He adds, that the English run to the extreme in paring feet; 
that they thin the sole and frog even to the point of bringing 
blood, and that he who can do this without actually wound- 
ing the sole passes with us for the most expert smith. This 
last observation is not without truth. 
* Having said thus much of our own country shoeing, we 
have left ourselves no room to enter into any sufficient 
account of the methods pursued by other countries. For 
them the work itself must be consulted by those conversant 
with the French language. We have shown that the work is 
a very comprehensive and instructive one. The only one that 
will bear a comparison with it, in our own language, is 
Goodwin’s, and that falls short of it in systematic detail. 
Few of our own veterinarians could have composed such a 
work : most of them, in the attempt, would, in the detail of the 
smith’s workshop, have sadly lacked the practical knowledge 
