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weeks, making that place his heachjuarters, and taking in the small 

 towns for a radius ol' 25 miles, doing a fair business only. He then 

 left for Buffalo, stopping at all the small towns en route, arriving at 

 the last-named place November loth, 1884. 



While in this city he cast up his accounts and decided thenceforth 

 to change his style of business, and instead of simply working the peo- 

 ple for their patronage as scholars at $3 per head, to adopt the sys- 

 tem of giving exhibitions inside some convenient inclosure and charg- 

 ing an admission fee. For this idea he has never been sorry, as it has 

 been much more remunerative. The first exhibition he irave after 

 adopting this resolution was in the " Republican Wigwam" on Niagara 

 Street, Buffalo, on November 22d, 1884. He charged only 10 cents 

 for admission, and as a consequence filled the house to overflowing, 

 having to turn away people every night. With all this outpouring 

 humanity he could not meet his expenses, as the wigwam could not 

 hold enough people to do so, so he had to raise his prices. For the 

 nine weeks of his engagement he did a profitable business, and was 

 well pleased with the " new idea." 



" During my engagement here," he says, '' I made the acquaintance 

 of Mr. C. J. Hamlin, of East Aurora, N. Y., who made me a 

 proposition to take charge of his stock farm, and superintend the sale 

 of his celebrated trotting stock. This I did not take kindly to, as it 

 was not my vocation to be a stock raiser. But Mr. Hamlin, not to be 

 thwarted, conceived the idea of getting on the right side of my wife, 

 and thus finally succeeded in gaining the day and bringing me over to 

 his terms. I took the position, thinking and believing that Mrs. Glea- 

 son did this more to have an abiding place, and probably that it would 

 result in our settling down somewhere permanently and making us a 

 home. I was to commence my engagement on the first day of Apiil, 

 1885. I now left for Chicago, 111. Here I exhibited to crow«l('d 

 houses for 10 weeks. As I was about to close my engagement in this 

 city I heard of a very vicious horse which belonged to the proprietor 

 of the Gait House. The reader can paint in his imagination the pic- 

 ture of a wild and vicious horse, with all the bad habits combined in 

 him, breaking a strap used in controlling him, dragging about three 

 men with him, pell mell, hit or miss, through a vast multitude of 

 frightened human beings, with those having him in charge powerless to 

 control him. At last I caught him, bringing him to a standstill, and 



