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my reward. During tliis period I spent much of my 

 time in visiting and studying stock farms, endeavoring 

 to improve, if possible, my method of dealing with 

 thoroughbreds. 



DOWN AND UP AGAIN IN OHIO. 



My next journey was up the Ohio river, exhibiting 

 and lecturing at the various towns along that stream. 

 Every one, however, seemed more interested in boats 

 and boating than in horses and horsemanship, so that 

 before reaching Cleveland, Ohio, most of my hard 

 earnings had disappeared. Ill-luck followed, and I 

 could not get an audience. I was disappointed, but 

 not discouraged. " Up and at them again," was my 

 motto, and at Cleveland my success was simply won- 

 derful. I made the acquaintance, while there, of Mr. 

 Perkins, a millionaire stock-raiser, and, visiting his 

 farm, handled a vicious horse for him. I also had 

 charge of the shoeing of the horses belonging to Mr. 

 Edwards, president of the Trotting Association. 



IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK. 



My next move was to Jamestown, N. Y., through 

 Ashtabula and Erie. At Bradford I handled thirteen 

 horses in the opera-house and six at Bolivar. At 

 Olean a wild Texan mustang, belonging to John Mc- 

 Cafferty, of San Antonio, Texas, was brought to me 

 by the owner. This was the wildest and most accom- 

 plished animal in the knowledge of knowing how not 

 to let any one succeed in putting hands on him out of 

 a large lot. Mr. McCafferty, in throwing a noose on 

 him from the back of his cow horse, caught him fairly, 

 but he ran on one side of a telegraph-pole and drew 

 and threw McCafferty with full force, horse and all, 

 against the pole, and for some time it was thought his 



