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stables, where the mare is boarded, said, as the representative of the 

 owner : 



" * This mare is a notorious biter. She killed a man in Boston. In 

 our stable we always have to keep a muzzle on her. There is only one 

 man who can harness her or handle her in the stall. If he is not 

 about her owner can't go riding. She is a biter from Bitersville. Put 

 your fist in her face, and she'll eat you up.' 



*'In subsequent conversation he said that she was formerly the 

 property of Mr. David Scott, who, to get rid of her, gave her to 

 Colonel Van Wyck, her present owner. When her owner drives her 

 out on the road there is only one place at which he can stop, for there 

 is but one man, John Quinn, who will dare to put her in the shed. 



" After a few minutes' struggle the mare was thrown down by means 

 of the * double safety rope,' and Professor Gleason, while sitting on 

 her, made a little speech, condemning cruelty to horses, and compli- 

 menting Mr. Heury Bergh — with whom he had had a long and pleas- 

 ant explanatory interview in the afternoon — for his good work in pro- 

 tecting valuable animals. When the mare was allowed to get up, the 

 muzzle was taken off her, and the ' double Bonaparte bridle ' was put 

 on. During the operation she only made one snap at the trainer's 

 hands, and seemed to regret that the moment after, when she caught 

 his eye. This bridle is very nearly the same as the 'Eureka' — a 

 mere bit of slender cord — except that its free end is not bi'ought up 

 and fastened to the neck-loop, but is run through straight and held to 

 be pulled on when coercion seems desirable. With that contrivance 

 she was so completely demoralized and subjugated that she submitted 

 to being harnessed again and a^ain, without a sign of biting, even after 

 it was taken off, and she was only held by a loose halter. She was 

 even let go into the ring with only the halter on, and followed the 

 trainer about and obeyed him with the docility of a pet dog. This, 

 Professor Gleason said, * did not show that she was cured of biting, but 

 that she could be cured if her owner would only put her through a 

 course of such training himself." 



From New York Professor Gleason went to Philadelphia, and gave 

 exhibitions for two weeks at McCauU's Opera House, after which he 

 took a much-needed vacation. His eleventh year's work was begun at 

 Lynn, Mass., on August 1st, 1886, and soon after he went to Boston 



