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Identifier: conditionofhunte00nimr (find matches)
Title: The condition of hunters : their choice and management
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Nimrod Barton, Frank Townend, b. 1869
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting
Publisher: London New York : John Lane
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ered the shoe to rest on the wall,which is the chief natural bearing of the horse. However lightly I may have now spoken on thissubject, no man holds good shoeing to be more essentialthan myself ; and, to prove what I assert, I some years 1 When the late celebrated Colonel Thornton kept fox-hounds inYorkshire, he was extremely particular about the shoeing of hishorses. Taking up one of their feet one day, he observed that ahot shoe had been applied to it. Tell that rascal of a blacksmith,said he to his groom, if he ever dares to apply a hot shoe to a horses foot of mine again, I will apply one to his . (The reader must guess the rest.) A short time afterwards, as the Colonelwas returning from hunting he caught poor Vulcan in the fatal act,when, galloping up to him, with the assistance of two of his whip-pers-in, he made good his promise, and stamped him a posterioriwith the insignia of his profession. It is unnecessary to add that theactual cautery was in this case a sovereign remedy.
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ON THE FOOT 131 since made myself acquainted with the operative partof preparing a horses foot for his shoe with the drawingknife, under the tuition of a first-rate performer fromthe College. Having done so, I was ever afterwardsenabled to direct those who shod my horses, and foundthe best effects from my instructions. In one instance,in particular, I found them of infinite advantage. Iwent to spend the summer months, a few years since,with a friend who resided in the interior of the prin-cipality of Wales ; and conceiving that gentle exerciseat that period would be serviceable to two valu-able hunters I then possessed, I took them with me.Dreading the uncontrolled operation of the butterisin the hands of a Welsh blacksmith, I took my drawingknife with me, and the first time my horses wantedshoeing I prepared their feet myself. Contrary tomy expectation the Welshman approved of andprofited by the example I set him ; and, in a veryfew lessons, became a shoer on the principles ofnature,

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