Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-08
SUNOL COUPONS.

The Pleasure Hr. homer Takes I'm
RussIng over the Feet OF His New
Purchase.
From the New York Times
Shortly after eleven o'clock young John
Adlemsn. an apprentice blacksmith in the
employ of Mr.. ROberg, the artist black
smith, went into Mr.. Bonner's. barn, and
there awaited the arrival :of Mr.. Bonner,
who owns the mare, and Mr.. Marvin, who
developed her. When these two came
from the house to the barn, the mare was
led from her box stall to the floor, and then
Mr. Bonner began to cut the coupons from
his purchase, and he got his MI of dividends
before he turned Sunol over to her groom
and told him to put her away for the day.
The mare was given turn or two over the
barn floor, while Mr.. Bonner watched her
from behind and tried TO find some faults
in her shoeing that he could have correct
ed. FirEt he discovered THAT she was not
evenly balanced on her near hind foot, and
there was pleasure in store for him OF
came the bar shoe. and then MI. Bonner
got down on his knees and bad the >sui-
site pleasure of fnssing over the hoof aud
discovering that there was needed bit Of
| trimming here and bit Of building up
there, aud the blzcksmith's apprentice
went to work with a rssp snd scraper, cut
ting and filling as directed, until Mr.. Bon
face glowed with animation and just such
| q Joy as q boy would show in watching the
| revolutions of particular bright and beau
tiful new top. 1t was Mr.. BOnner's way of
making Sunol declare dividends on her pur-
| chase money.
This particular hoof was the one that
| furnished Mr.. Bonner the largest number
| of coupons, for there was q chance for him
| TO show all his skill and work out some Of
| his pet theories on that hoof. sit is Just
| like one of Nelson's hoofs, he explained TO
| the Times reporter who was curiously
watching the miilionaire blacksmith at
| work at his hobby. See" he said. point
ing to a slight depression in the wall of the
hoof of the mare. NELSON, the Maine stAl-
lion, ,shas another such depression on the
wall of bis near hind foot. IL is q double
of this and is an abnormal growth, the ef-
fects nf which have got 10 be corrected be-
fore the horse that has such can be perfect
| ly balanced and move easily and rapidly at
her highest rate of speed. The inner wall
of the houf grows more rapidly than the
| outer. and that of necessity throws her foot
/ ont of true, and she shows IL in her gait.
Now, you notice that this boy has cut away
| q lot of the inner growth of the hoof and a
bit of the inside wall, so that it is a trifie
lower than the other side. That will
give the outer wall chance to grow down
so that the weight of the foot shall be
equally balanced, just as nature intended
1t should be-"
Meantime 4 couple of men had been at
| work at the shoe that was removed unril
they had got il, as they thought, perfectly
level The shoe was handed to Mr.. Bon
ner, who applied the surface that was to
set on Sunel's ho1f to q small slab of mar
BILE that he had found somewhere in the
barn With this the face of the shoe was
tested as carefully as with spirit level,
and bit of imperfection at one point that
no eye but his sharp one could discover
had to be beaten out by trifiing tap with
the hammer. Then there was another test
on the marble slab, and. after Nr. Bonner
had squinted across the face of the shoe as
! carpenter does when he is trying omake
one believe that he can tell whether q bit
of wood is straight or not, he handed the
the shoe to Mr.. Marvin and said, sNow,
that's perfect, and will stand absolutely
i level"
Johnny" Adlemsn then had the pleas
ure of mailing the shoe on to the mare but
he was a mere machine in the hands of the
master that sat on an old chair near him,