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practice. On the last day of my stay at East Aurora, 

 I gave a lecture to my neighbors, acquaintances, and 

 residents thereabouts, which numbered on this occa- 

 sion over three thousand. The five-acre paddock in 

 which I gave the exhibition was filled and the fences 

 were completely lined; no such business was ever done 

 before in this place by the store, hotel and stable 

 keepers. I sold all the books I had, besides having 

 money forced on me to pay for more when I should 

 be able to deliver them. After spending a week in 

 the small towns of Erie County, I located for three 

 weeks at the Genesee Falls Park, in Rochester, hand- 

 ling a large number of horses. 



Afterwards, by request, I gave at Buffalo Riding 

 Park, four miles outside the city, an exhibition to over 

 seventeen hundred persons, and was to repeat it the 

 next day; it proved unpleasant, however, and I post- 

 poned the exhibition to the first fair day. I was in- 

 formed I could not get an audience sq far from the 

 city to a postponed entertainment; but at three o'clock 

 P.M. over nineteen hundred people showed by their 

 attendance that my lectures were an exception to all 

 established rules. At Niagara Falls, instead of being 

 listened to, I listened, giving my time entirely to 

 viewing this wonderful exhibition of immensity. My 

 assistant, who was a Canadian by birth, advocated a 

 visit to the Indian reservation at Lewiston, where I 

 was regarded as a great curiosity by an audience 

 composed entirely of Indians, who were greatly inter- 

 ested in my lecture and exhibition. 



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From this place I went to Hamilton, Ontario, via 

 St. Catherines. At Hamilton I encountered the most 

 vicious horse I had ever met with, belonging to Mr, 



