After the second interview the King felt persuaded that one circumstance had been related to him by the farrier, which he alone knew, and which had happened more than twenty years before.
He saw the thin lines of smoke from the chimneys of each household, and the more copious outpourings from the forges of the van-builder, the blacksmith, and the farrier.
Jerome sat himself contented down, and put me through my paces like some farrier showing off a foundered nag.
With an eye to business, a few traveling farriers hang about this pass, and find occasional employment in setting shoes.
Everywhere there were farriers and innkeepers with a knack for healing, wise women who knew about herbs (who might or might not have a reputation as witches).
But it should not necessarily be that in a peculiar part, where everything is rather wild and woolly, there are no farriers at all.
Even the blacksmiths and the farriers who are necessary have been taken away.
