60 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES. 



the animal under the control of Professor Gleason that 

 without a saddle or bridle he rode her around the ring 

 with tin pans tied to her tail, opened and closed an um- 

 brella, fired a revolver, and finally, after alighting, he 

 raised her feet and went through the motion of shoe- 

 ing; and although he had never touched the animal 

 previous to her appearance in the ring, she was as 

 tractable a beast as one would desire to handle. The 

 second subject was a large, sorrel work-horse, and he 

 in turn was treated in like manner. To-night Pro- 

 fessor Gleason will lecture on the shoeing of horses in 

 connection with his school." 



Another notice in a Boston paper is as follows; 



THE HORSE-TRAINING SCHOOL. 



" The value of the course of lectures now being 

 given by Professor Oscar R. Gleason at the Boston 

 Riding Academy, No. 1209 Washington Street, to 

 horse owners, shoers, drivers, and hostlers, is appar- 

 ently fully appreciated, for night after night the same 

 attentive faces are riveted upon every movement of 

 the Professor and his assistant. Of the 130 animals 

 handled by Professor Gleason in public while in this 

 city, most of them have been converted from vicious, 

 worthless brutes to docile and valuable servants, and 

 in every case a marked improvement has been effected 

 by even one lesson of less than one hour. The value 

 of kind treatment to the dumb animal is so effectually 

 shown in all of Professor Gleason's lectures that, to 

 use the words of many of his visitors, ' he is a society in 

 himself for the prevention of cruelty to animals.' The 

 use of the check-rein is so pernicious, in his opinion 

 (except, perhaps, while a horse is travelling very fast), 

 that he allows no opportunity to condemn it to pass by 

 unimproved, and the useless custom of cutting and 



