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house, and on Tuesday I put him into an enclosure 

 twenty-four feet square, without a strap or rope on 

 him. The house was crowded to suffocation, the 

 doors being closed at 8.15. When I entered the en- 

 closure with the stallion, you could have heard a pin 

 drop, the owner saying that " no man would ever 

 come out alive that went into such a place with 

 Rysdyk." In twenty-three minutes I put a halter on 

 him and led him out of the enclosure, though not with- 

 out tw r o very narrow escapes — he having bitten me on 

 the arm and also on the left side of my chest, taking 

 out quite a piece of flesh and the wound bleeding 

 quite freely. The next night I made the stallion do a 

 few tricks before the audience, such as standing on a 

 box with one fore-foot and holding the other up and 

 putting it down at the word of command; also tilting 

 on a plank raised tw r o and a half feet from the ground. 

 I next made him follow a stranger round the arena 

 like a dog. On Thursday afternoon I drove him on 

 the Boulevard (it having been said this horse was dan- 

 gerous to drive on the road), and had the stallion and 

 myself photographed. On Friday the stallion w^s 

 shipped back to Montreal. 



In conclusion, I was very agreeably surprised by 

 the many praiseworthy notices received from the New 

 York press during my sojourn. At this writing, I am 

 still giving exhibitions in New York, and, hoping the 

 above review of my travels throughout the country in 

 educating the most useful to man of all God's crea- 

 tures will prove of interest to the reader, I remain, 

 Respectfully, 



Oscar R. Gleason, 



Horse Educator 



Post-office address. Buffalo, N. Y 



