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skin, and I understand that he escaped with little in- 

 jury, beside the sadly-rent and totally-ruined state of 

 his toggery. 



" Tiie Whisperer was sent for, who, having arrived, 

 was shut up with the horse all night, and in the morn- 

 ing he exhibited this hitherto ferocious animal follow- 

 ing him about the course like a dog, lying down at his 

 command, suffering his mouth to be opened, and any 

 person's hand to be introduced into it: in short, as 

 quiet as a sheep. 



" He came out the same meeting and won a race, 

 and his docility continued satisfactory for a long time ; 

 but at the end of about three years his vice returned, 

 and then he is said to have killed a man, for which he 

 was destroyed." 



The Rev. Mr. Towns end in the work already men- 

 tioned gives the following account of this man, with an 

 example of his skill in the art of breaking vicious 

 horses : — 



" I once 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's lecture I 

 went, not without some incredulity, to the smith's 

 shop, with many other curious spectators, 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-discipline had 

 failed no other would be found availing. I observed 

 that the animal appeared terrified whenever Sullivan 

 either spoke or looked at him ; how that extraordinary 

 ascendancy could have been obtained is difficult to 

 conjecture. 



*' He seemed to possess an instinctive power of in- 

 spiring awCj the result, perhaps, of natural intrepidity, 

 in which, I believe, a great part of his art consisted, 



