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cavalry service for Pnjfessor Gleasou and said he hoped it would be- 

 come a law. He closed by presenting the stud, which cost $300." 



At Saginaw, Mich,, the next place visited, he received the following 

 letter from H. C. Shepard, one of the oldest and most successful horse- 

 trainere in that State : 



"Allow me to congratulate you upon the splendid entertainments 

 you have given us during the past two weeks. Your agent called into 

 my place of business, advertising your exhibition, and I entered into 

 a controversy with him in relation to your method of handling wild 

 and vicious horses, and to say that I was full and running over with 

 prejudice toward you would be putting it very mild. I offered to 

 wager any sum of money that your system would do for an entertain- 

 ment, but that it must prove a failure for every-day work. I attended 

 your exhibition at the Park Rink the first night with the same feel- 

 ings. That evening, you will remember, you were disappointed by 

 parties who promised to bring vicious horses, and you appeared at a 

 great disadvantage. I then saw^ a small hole through my argument. 

 When I again attended the exhibition you were called upon to handle 

 some bad kickers and vicious horses, and I then realized your power 

 and the practicability of your methods. Right here I wish to ac- 

 knowledge myself wrong, and wish to say further that I have seen 

 horse-trainers perform for the past 20 years, and have taken a lively 

 interest in all methods advanced, but am compelled to say that in my 

 opinion they all pale into nothingness when compared to the only 

 Gleason." 



For four weeks in April and May, 1888, Professor Gleason gave 

 exhibitions in Chicago before vast crowds of interested spectators. One 

 evening he handled a large and handsome bay horse that was a bad 

 halter-puller and shyer. It took only a five-minutes' application of 

 the "fore-and-aft" halter contrivance to satisfy the horse that halter- 

 pulling was neither graceful nor proper. The horse was then hitched 

 up with a dashing little black and driven around the " salvation band " 

 and through a hissing shower of steam. They kicked and reared 

 when they first saw the steam, but the second time they started for it 

 they went right through, and the third time they stood under it as if 

 they liked to feel its warming influence on their glistening sides and 



