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must obey, and no harm would follow, that his owner 

 harnessed him, and with his daughter returned to 

 Dover that afternoon — to the astonishment of thou- 

 sands who had known the animal for years as utterly 

 worthless, because entirely and completely unmanage- 

 able. On the day of the dinner the owner had driven 

 him from Dover with his family, in order to produce 

 this living witness of the power and stability of my 

 unrivalled method of educating horses. 



SUCCESS IN MARYLAND. AN EXCURSION. 



At Hagerstown, Md., John-Cost, a well-known livery- 

 stable keeper, consented reluctantly to allow me to 

 make a trial on his Kentucky thoroughbred horse 

 Prince, fearing, however, that my system was the 

 same brutal method that other men had been prac- 

 tising. This horse, Prince, had just been purchased 

 much below his value, simply because it was impos- 

 sible to prevent him from running away. One Thurs- 

 day I gave this animal a lesson, lasting forty minutes, 

 and on Friday drove out through Court Square, to 

 the astonishment of every man, woman, and child in 

 the city, who had turned out as if to see a circus. 

 During the exhibition, while I was driving rapidly, a 

 bolt on the shafts became loose, causing them to fall 

 on the horse's heels; but so thoroughly had I instilled 

 the meaning of the word "whoa!" into the mind of 

 Prince that, as soon as I uttered it he stopped and 

 stood perfectly still while the bolt was replaced. My 

 success here was assured, and for four months I reaped 

 the benefit of my good fortune. I believe I was the 

 first horse-lecturer who ever travelled through the 

 Shenandoah Valley. At Harrisonburg my success 

 was simply immense, having, during a visit of thirty 

 days, thirty-three hundred members in my classes at 



