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| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| 'Aberlorna's' Second Letter in 'Farm Journal'—His second Horse shod with Tips—Putting on Tips—His Experience in South America of the Exuberance of Growth of Horn and its Toughness, in Unshod Horses—Shod Horses go lame over good roads, whilst the unshod ones go sound over those of the very worst description—Ignorance of People in England of the Nature of a Horse's Foot—'The Lancet' on the Indefensibility, in a Physiological Light, of the Use of Horseshoes—Success of two Gentlemen in working unshod Horses in England—Newspaper Complaints, about the Slipping of Horses, and Stoppage of Traffic on Ludgate Hill—The false Light in which Slipping is looked at | 119 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Ludgate Hill only rises about four feet in every hundred—Societies—The Bearing Rein only required on Cripples | 129 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Brittle Hoof—Ignorance of Farriers—' Impecuniosus ' says the existing Ideas on the Horse's Foot have sprung from wrong roots altogether—Fearnley says 'The Charlier is the most Common-sense Shoe ever invented' | 135 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Custom of H. Jennings of training Racehorses unshod, and running them in their Races with Tips on their Fore Feet, with the Hind Feet bare—'Evening Standard,' instance of impaired Sight in a Young Lady from wearing high Heels on her Boots— | |
