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dealer my favorite horse, "Tom Thumb," then 



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partly trained. 



Feeling now tolerably well equipped, I came 

 before the public with my new and perfect sys- 

 tem, confident that it needed only to be known 

 to be welcomed with pleasure by every intelli- 

 gent friend of the horse. In the month of 

 January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, I 

 made my debut at the town of Geneva, erecting, 

 at considerable cost, an academy for the exhibi- 

 tion of my system of training, My success was 

 immediate; friends and well-wishers clustered 

 about me ; the hand of encouragement was ex- 

 tended on every side, and in a little while my 

 class in that place numbered seventy-five mem- 

 bers. The reader can scarcely conceive the 

 feelings of gratification that were excited in my 

 breast by such prompt and flattering success. 

 It confirmed my own judgment of the superiority 

 of my system, and inspired a full confidence in 

 its success. 



After leaving Geneva, I visited the pleasant 

 town of Waterloo, where I built another academy 



