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It was cattle country and most of Blacksmith Hogan's business was shoeing cow ponies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jim was shoeing a pony when the word came, but with 400 of his countrymen he set out again.

From Time Magazine Archive

The forge was open and Sim Peck was shoeing a horse.

From Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace by Emerson, Alice B.

In front a blacksmith was shoeing a horse, a sleek, well-kept animal with the signs of good blood and breeding.

From The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)

The smith skilfully performed his work, but as he was shoeing the last horse he accidentally touched the rider, who started up, crying out: “Is it time?”

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney