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about half-an-hour, during which little or no hustle was 

 heard, the signal was made ; and after opening the door, 

 the horse was seen lying down, and the man by his side, 

 playing familiarly with him like a child with a puppy-dog. 

 From that time he was found perfectly willing to submit to 

 discipline, however repugnant to his nature before. Some 

 saw his skill tried on a horse which could never before be 

 brought to stand for a smith to shoe him. The day after 

 Sullivan's half-hour lecture, I went, not without some incre- 

 dulity, to the smith's shop, with many other curious spec- 

 tators, where we were eye-witnesses of the complete success 

 of his art. This too had been a troop-horse, and it was 

 supposed, not without reason, that after regimental dis- 

 cipline had failed, no other would be found availing. I 

 observed that the animal seemed afraid whenever Sullivan 

 spoke or looked at him. How that extraordinary ascendancy 

 could have been obtained, it is difficult to conjecture. In 

 common cases, this mysterious preparation was unnecessary. 

 He seemed to possess an instinctive power of inspiring awe, 

 the result, perhaps, of natural intrepidity, in which I believe 

 a great part of his art consisted, though the circumstance of 

 the tete-a-tcte shows that upon particular occasions some- 

 thing more must have been added to it. A faculty like 

 this would, in other hands, have made a fortune, and great 

 offers have been made to him for the exercise of his art 

 abroad ; but hunting, and attachment to his native soil, 

 were his ruling passions. He lived at home in the style 

 most agreeable to his disposition, and nothing could induce 

 him to quit Dunhallow and the fox-hounds." Among the 

 many striking performances in this way, none v/as more 

 remarkable than his taming the celebrated racer King 

 Pippin, one of the most ferocious horses that ever lived. 

 Such was his furious temper, that to saddle and bridle him 



