122 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



Passing from Detroit, I again set foot on Ca- 

 nadian soil, exhibiting at a town named Sarnia, 

 situated on the Detroit River, and after that at 

 many other places until I reached the pleasant 

 little town of Simcoe. There I received a cor- 

 dial welcome from many lovers of the horse, 

 and found no difficulty in forming a class of one 

 hundred and ninety, who not only appreciated 

 my system, but embraced an early opportunity 

 of presenting me with a diploma testifying that 

 appreciation. It was read in my hearing on its 

 being presented, and the reader may well believe 

 that I was greatly gratified and cheered by the 

 sentiments therein expressed. 



SIMCOE, February 24^ 1874. 



Having attended Prof. O. S. Pratt ; s lectures to his class 

 and also having seen the practical application of his system, 

 as given by him every afternoon and evening at his academy, 

 and believing it to be far the best ever seen in Canada, so 

 clear and practical that the merest novice can understand 

 and use it, and yet so comprehensive that the most skillful 

 horseman can be instructed by it, we deem it of utmost im- 

 portance that all persons owning, using, or at all interested in 

 horses, avail themselves of Prof. Pratt's knowledge on that 



