Horse and man : their mutual dependence and duties . HOOP OF MR. ASTLEY 8HORSE, PURCHASEDPROM DR. LLEWEL-LYN. I here present to my readers an engraving of aphotographic portrait of the near fore-hoof of thishorse. Let the reader, when examining it, bear inmind that the horse had traversed at least thirteen 160 HORSE AND MAN. thousand miles without any protection to the remarkable point in the history of theanimal is, that he always went lame when shod, buthas never done so since his shoes were removed. In order to give the reader a more complete ideaof the appearance of the hoof w
Horse and man : their mutual dependence and duties . HOOP OF MR. ASTLEY 8HORSE, PURCHASEDPROM DR. LLEWEL-LYN. I here present to my readers an engraving of aphotographic portrait of the near fore-hoof of thishorse. Let the reader, when examining it, bear inmind that the horse had traversed at least thirteen 160 HORSE AND MAN. thousand miles without any protection to the remarkable point in the history of theanimal is, that he always went lame when shod, buthas never done so since his shoes were removed. In order to give the reader a more complete ideaof the appearance of the hoof when untrammelled bythe shoe, I here present him with a fac-simile of a photo-graph taken from the two fore-feet of the same FORE-FEET OF DR. LLEWELLYNS HORSE. I need only request my unprejudiced reader tolook at this photograph, and ask himself whetherany shod hoofs can compare with these. I do notoffer a fancy drawing of hoofs, as I think they oughtto be under certain circumstances, but give thephotographic portrait of hoofs as they are underthose same conditions. TOMMY. 161 I may here mention that when the photographwas taken the horse was fourteen years old, andthat its height was fifteen hands one and a halfinches. Here is another photograph, representing thehoof of Tommy, another of Mr. A. F. Astleyshorses. I possess many letters from Mr. Astley in whichhe describes the trouble which he had with Tommy,who was about as unsatisfactory asubject for an experiment as couldwell be imagined, having only onefairly sound hoof out of the times his owner was on thepoint of abandoning the enterpriseas a failure, so fragile was the hoof, hoop of mr. asj leys -r> n /7 HORSE TOMMY. rerseverance, howe
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