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thus held them suspended, to prepare them 

 for a kind of puppet-show ; some were not 

 far from believing that I fascinated them by 

 the power of my looks. Finally, a certain 

 portion of the public, seeing these animals 

 perform in time to the charming music of 

 one of my friends, M. Paul Cuzent, insisted 

 seriously that they undoubtedly possessed, 

 in a very great degree, the instinct of 

 melody, and that they would stop short 

 with the clarionets and trombones. So, 

 the sound of the music was more powerful 

 over my horse than I was myself! The 

 animal obeyed a do or a sol, nicely touched, 

 but the effects of my legs and hands went 

 for nothing. Would it be believed that such 

 nonsense was uttered by people that passed 

 for riders ? I can comprehend their not 

 having understood my means at first, since 

 my method was new; but before judging it 

 in so strange a manner, they ought, at 



