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have killed one man, and was a bad biter, striker, and some- 

 what given to kicking. He had never been harnessed. 



He was led into the academy on the above night, secured 

 by iron rods and with a heavy muzzle over his mouth. He 

 manifested an ugliness truly characteristic. 



Prof. Pratt, applying the rules of his system, at once so 

 comprehensive and yet so simple, within twenty minutes had 

 contemptuously thrown away the iron rods, muzzle, etc., 

 and exhibited to his audience one of the most tractable of 

 horses, who would follow him when commanded, stopping at 

 the word " whoa," and, being harnessed, was driven around 

 the ring in a vehicle continually hitting his heels. 



Prof. Pratt's Lewiston class numbers, at the present time, 

 three hundred and sixty members. 



We most cheerfully commend the system of Prof. Pratt 

 to the public generally, assuring them that, in our opinion, it 

 is the inauguration of a new and happier era for that noblest 

 of the brute creation the horse. 

 LEWISTON, Me., October 2, 1872. 



D. B. STROUT, H. L. JOHNSON, 



J. P. NORTON, B. H. SCRIBNER, 



H. C. BRADFORD, J. L. PEABODY, 



P. M. THURLOW, S. D. THOMAS, 



ELI EDGECOMB, R. S. BBADBURY, 



N. C. HARRIS, J. C. PENDEPTER, 



H. H. RICHARDSON, GEORGE WEHLE, 

 W. M. CHAMBERLIN, S. B. COOK, 

 GEO. S. FOLLENSBER, A. B. WATSON, 

 T. H. LANGLEY, JOHN PICKARD, 



