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after renewing my attach nients, placed him again in the ring, and 

 within 30 minutes had him completely subdued." 



Concerning Professor Gleason's work in Chicago, The Chicago Horse- 

 man of February 14th, 1885, said : 



"On Saturday night last, at Greuier's Garden, Professor Gleason 

 brought a 10 weeks' engagement to a pleasant close. During that 

 period, nightly, he has lectured on the horse, educated him, trained 

 him, cured him of evil tricks, and demonstrated that the horse is an 

 intelligent animal, to be educated, not abused — to be trained, not 

 kicked. He has achieved a success that no other man can claim, show- 

 ing in Chicago for 10 weeks, giving 72 exhibitions to over 150,000 

 persons, handling 216 head of vicious horses." 



The Chicago Tribune, of Wednesday, March 4th, 1885, said: 

 " Over 1,200 people assembled in Battery D last night, to witness an 

 exhibition of horsemanship, as shown by Professor O. R. Gleason. The 

 lioor of the large hall had been covered with saw-dust, and at the east 

 end stood a score or more of animals, each of which, it is alleged, was 

 possessed of some vicious trait or bad habit. The horses were the 

 property of different residents of Chicago, and none of them, it was 

 said, had ever been seen by the trainer before. A bay mare was led to 

 the centre of the floor, and her owner informed the Professor that she 

 was in the habit of shying violently at newspapers and other light 

 objects which the wind might carry before her on the roadway. Under 

 the trainer's care the mare soon understood that the objects of which 

 she had stood in fear were harmless, and coolly walked over a quantity 

 of large white sheets that had been thrown upon the sawdust. A 

 vicious kicker was quieted soon into the gentlest submission. A brown 

 horse belonging to a prominent lightning-rod firm was next led into 

 the hall. The horse was a ' runaway,' and was declared unmanageable 

 1)V it^ owners. At the expiration of ten minutes an open umbrella 

 flourished about its head did not disturb the perfect composure of 

 the animal; she did not raise a hoof from the floor when the Professor 

 repeatedly fired a pistol from the animal's back." 



Thus Professor Gleason closed his first exhibition in Chicago, and 

 went to the Hamlin Stock Farm at Aurora, N. Y., 15 miles from 

 Buffalo. Here he commenced his duties as manager, and many and 

 endless were the duties he had to encounter. On the farm were 116 



