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handled in that chj, and it fought desperately for about one and one- 

 half hours. On this occasion over 2,000 jjeople were turned away from 

 the doors, there not being standing-rouiu for them. Professor Gleasun 

 also handled the mammoth biting stallion, " GalipoU," Irom Pennsyl- 

 vania, weighing over a ton, and standing 18 hands high. The Profes- 

 sor in a very short time had him under control, and put his arm in his 

 mouth, giving him all the chance possible to bite him, but the stallion 

 thought that discretion was the better part of valor, and behaved like 

 a pet dog. 



During this visit to Washington Professor Gleason attracted the 

 attention of members of the Cabinet and of Congress very greatly, 

 and Representative Wise introduced a bill j^roviding that the Profes- 

 sor should be requested to write a book embracing his entire system of 

 " training and educating horses, the science of horse-shoeing," etc., and 

 that Congress should purchase and publish said book for Government 

 use and the improvement of military service of the United States 

 Armies. 



From Washington, D. C, he went to Pittsburgh, Pa., where awaited 

 his coming a large number of the most vicious horses in the country. 

 While he was there he heard of a notorious brute called " Holliugs- 

 worth's Dvnamite." His owner wrote to Gleason about it, and the 

 latter offered to subdue it. Then the owner wrote again, as follows : 



" Your letter just received in answer to the one I wrote you about 

 my ' dynamite horse ' ; for he comes to the front in being one of the 

 worst sly and biting horses in this country. I am sorry you are too 

 far off to get this horse to you, but, nevertheless, I shall secure plenty 

 of help and ropes, and by getting in the hay-mow will carry out the 

 idea stated in your letter, of how to handle him to get him to the 

 depot. And right at this point let me say, for God's sake, be on the 

 watch, for I have not fully recovered from my wounds. Professor, if 

 you can handle this horse, to make him quiet, you are something more 

 than a man of ordinary ability. I can say nothing, but await for 

 general results, and may God grant you may handle and break him as 

 you stated without getting wounded or killed. I have tried to tell you 

 how bad he is but I cannot, for he is the devil with a man's life." 



Nearly 4,000 people came to see the fearless trainer deal with this 

 desperate brute, and thev saw him quickly reduce it to complete do- 

 cility. Then Professor Gleason went to Wheeling, W. Va., and then 



