[1307] Ibid., p. 16.
[1308] Pub. Surtees Soc., No. 65, p. 250 n.
[1309] Ibid., No. 65, p. 250 n.
[1310] Isa. v. 28. Cf. Smith, Dict. of the Bible, Art. “Horse.”
[1311] T. McKenny Hughes, in Proc. Camb. Antiq. Soc., X. 1904, pp. 256-7. J. J. Hissey, Over Fen and Wold, 1898, p. 127.
[1312] The number of nails required for an ox-shoe varied locally. See, e.g., the illustration in Youatt’s Cattle, p. 569, where three nails only are shown.
[1313] Youatt, Cattle, pp. 569-70. On the general question, see also T. McKenny Hughes, loc. cit.
[1314] Marshall, Rural Econ. Yorks., II. p. 182. Arthur Beckett, in The Spirit of the Downs, 1909, pp. 285-290, has a good description of a South Down ploughing match, in which oxen competed.
[1315] Rural Econ. Yorks., I. pp. 262-3. Cf. H. M. Neville, A Corner in the North, 1909, pp. 247-50.
[1316] H. E. Forrest, in Naturalist, 1908, p. 330.