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MR. RODWAY’S PATENT SHOE. 
and Christian spirit, has admonished us — “ why should any man 
be troubled at the contumelies of those whose judgment deserves 
not to be valued ?” 
To the accusation of fighting under “ false colours, ” we have, 
in a note appended to Mr. Rodway’s communication, already 
replied. Mr. Rodway was told by Mr. Youatt, at his house, 
when the former called, that the review of his productions would 
be by the Editors ; and we defy Mr. Rodway, or any other per- 
son, to charge us with not having performed our task conscien- 
tiously, or with any desire or motive save the elicitation of 
truth. 
Mr. Rodway alleges that we have attacked him “ by mis- 
representations, misquotations, and unfairness and commences 
his proofs — for we hold assertions as nothing without proofs — 
by saying, “ the writer states, my shoe does not give the hold 
or grasp upon the ground 1 described, because there is no such 
concavity in the horse’s foot as in my shoe.” Now, what we 
said was this — “ it is evident enough that Mr. Rodway has not 
obtained his proper hold or grasp upon the earth, by taking 
Nature as his guide shewing that it was not because there was 
no concavity in the horse’s foot like that in Mr. Rodway’s shoe, 
but because his shoe was a deviation from and violation of the 
tread of the natural foot, to a greater extent than existed in other 
horseshoes. What, pray, does Mr. Rodway call this, his very 
first, but a mis-quotation ? And how many mis-quotations or 
imperfect ones, that altered the sense, did Mr. Rodway make in 
citing our first article in his former reply? We might multiply 
examples like the one above had we space for them, and did we 
not think that, in doing so, we should weary and disgust our 
readers, our object being argument with proof, not vague assertion 
and abuse. 
We would ask Mr. Rodway this simple question— If that 
which now goes by the name of his shoe possesses so many ad- 
mirable qualities, how came it to be laid aside two-and-twenty 
years ago by veterinarians well able to judge of its properties? 
It was at that time tried and found wanting; and fresh trials 
of it have only confirmed the opinions of those with whom it 
originated. 
