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tried to impart to my pupils, viz., that before being 

 able to handle and control a horse successfully, first 

 be able to control and handle yourself. Mr. Gleason, 

 I accept with pleasure this beautiful gold-headed cane, 

 and thank you heartily for the same." 



Professor Williams afterwards gave an exhibition 

 with his trick mare Topsy, much to the gratification of 

 my large audience. This mare had not been called 

 upon to perform for a number of years, yet she went 

 through with the performance as well as if she had 

 been in practice all the time. The number of my 

 regular class members was now so large, in addition 

 to the evening twenty-five cent admission ticket-hold- 

 ers, that I was obliged to seek a place which afforded 

 more and better seats for my audiences; and on the 

 evening of March 22d, at the Highland Rink on Shaw- 

 mut Avenue, at least twenty-five hundred persons, 

 fully one third of whom were ladies, greeted my eye 

 as I entered the extensive arena. The ring was of 

 such a size that seven and one-half times around it 

 made a mile. This picturesque ampitheatre, lighted 

 with electricity, fitted up with a steam whistle wit'i 

 which to test my subjects, was all that could be wished, 

 as also was my success. I have in my possession a 

 very complimentary testimonial signed by upwards 

 of one thousand of those who had not only seen my 

 exhibition, but approved my method or system, and 

 my practical manner of illustrating all I professed to 

 teach. Upon this long list appear the names of 

 Messrs. Hibbard, Dr. Blackwell, A. W. Davis, Snow 

 Bros. & Richardson, J. J. Manson, B. Whitcomb, 

 Dr. Foster Delano, J. J. Bower, John Trout, J. J. Ha- 

 zeltine, W. H. Peters, J. C. Warner, G. W. King, 

 ftlr. Whiting, and others. 



