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backs. They also remained perfectly still while flags were waved be- 

 fore their eyes, paper tossed in showers around their heads, and guns 

 fired behind their ears. The little black had a bob tail, which the 

 Professor did not admire. He said a horse's tail was intended to be 

 a protection to his body, and he thought that a man who would cut it 

 off ought to be sent to the penitentiary. 



An " expert " view of Gleason and his work was given in The Chi- 

 cago Horseman of March 22d, 1888, wdth reference to his lecture be- 

 fore the Chicago Veterinary College. It said : 



" On the subject of practical horseshoeing the Professor is very en- 

 thusiastic, rightly claiming that more horses are injured from ignorant 

 and incompetent shoers than from any other cause, and believes that 

 every sheer, besides serving an apprenticeship, should pass an exami- 

 nation as in other professions before he is allowed to practice, rightly 

 claiming that with the passage of such a law^ the frequency with which 

 lame horses are seen on our streets would soon disappear. The 

 methods employed by Professor Gleason in subduing the vicious ani- 

 mals and converting them into docile and valuable servants are hu- 

 mane, consistent with safety to the life and limb to the person handling 

 the animal. 



" We notice by the da'ly papers that a bill was introduced in the 

 Senate by Senator Hampton for the purchasing and publishing of a 

 book on the great art of training and educating the horse, said book 

 to be published by Professor O. R. Gleason ; also the employment of 

 the said Professor Gleason by the government to teach and lecture 

 on his system of training and educating, the science of horseshoeing, 

 and how to purchase horses for the government service. This bill was 

 referred to the Military Committee, and Ave understand has the hearty 

 support not only of its members but of the majority of the Senate 

 and House, the greater number of which bodies have had the pleasure 

 of attending Professor Gleasou's exhibitions and witnessing his suc- 

 cessful attempts in subjugating the most vicious and heretofore untam- 

 able animals brought before him. That such an office is needed, there 

 is no question, and we know of no man in the country so well quali- 

 fied by reason of his great experience and success as Professor O. R. 

 Gleason. 



** To give our readers some idea of the vast amount of work he has 



