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d >ue the past year, we will sla ^ iluit during the past 12 months he hai 

 brokeu, hitched, and driven over 1,700 horses. 



" The inventions and metht^ds, the results of long years of experi- 

 ence and carefal study, and found to be the mos practical, are sliown 

 to thousands of people nightly and the Professor is always willing to 

 show and explain everything connected with his art that is not thor- 

 ou^j-hlv understood, claiming that a man that would withhold informa- 

 tion that would relieve a suffering animal is as brutish as he is mer- 

 cenary. 



" The entertainments he has furnislied for the last two weeks at 

 Battery D, in this city, have been very largely attended, and we 

 noticed many of our best citizens in the reserved balconies, and as 

 some particularly vicious animal was brought into the arena and after 

 passing through the master's hand^j trotted around the ring like a well- 

 behaved family animal, rounds of applause greeted the lecturer. 



"In private life Professor Gleason is of a genial and unassuming 

 nature, charitable to a fault, having given away during his tour large 

 sums of money and often devoting his entire evening receipts to the 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Newsboys' 

 Home, and other deserving public charities." 



To trace Professor Gleason 's career in detail down to the present 

 day would be to repeat again and again w'hat has already been told, 

 of exhibitions of his marvellous skill in many cities before admiring 

 thousands. A few more letters from among the vast numbers written 

 to him and about him may well, however, be quoted. Here is one : 



Richmond, Va., December 10th, 1883. 

 To whom it may concern : 



It has been my privilege to attend some of Mr. Gleason's exhibi- 

 tions of his system of horse-training. I have seen him managing 

 horses of various temperaments, some highly nervous, some balky, and 

 some that would be called stubborn, and it affords me much pleasure 

 to be able to say that I have been very favorably impressed with his 

 skill, which indeed amounts to science, as well as with his perseverance 

 and patience. 



I have been greatly pleased also with Ids ideas of horseshoeing, 

 which I heard from him in my personal interviews with him. Con- 

 vinced, as I have been, from many years' observation and study of 



