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in the editorial columns of the Boston Traveller^ written 

 by a gentleman who saw me for the first time on my 

 opening night: 



TRAINING HORSES. 



''''Editor of the Traveller. — To show that my opinion 

 relative to the training of horses should be worth 

 something, I will relate several of my experiences. I 

 was the raiser and trainer of many fine horses, among 

 them the war-stallion of Major Griswold, colonel of 

 the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Regiment, which horse, 

 for docility, style, and endurance, could not, in my 

 mind, be surpassed by any horse of the present day.. 

 I was also the trainer of the gelding Lion, a horse 

 that was the pride of Brigade Quartermaster Rich- 

 ardson of the Thirty-third Regiment of Massachu- 

 setts Volunteers, and afterwards the property of Gen- 

 eral Smith of the Ohio brigade, by whom it was 

 valued at its weight in gold. These horses, with many 

 others, were raised in Worcester County, and made as 

 good an appearance the first time they were driven 

 as most horses do under different ways of breaking in 

 after years. 



" I also trained and rode for seven years the beauti- 

 ful gray on which ex-Governors Rice and Long ap- 

 peared at muster at Framingham, and on wliich the lat- 

 ter appeared the 17th of September at the liead of the 

 militia of the State, and at the review of the visiting 

 New York regiments the next day on the common. 

 Complimentary notices of the 'superb mount ' of the 

 Governor appeared in all the papers of the day. 



** I selected and trained the noble horse that was the 

 direct cause of the capture of Payne, who was hanged 

 at Washington for the attempted assassination of Sec- 

 retary Seward, The writer, then assistant adjutant 



