LIFE SKETCH. 67 



In Boston I handled about three hundred horses^ 

 more than any and all of my profession combined, 

 had ever even thought of doing, notwithstanding the 

 spiteful attempt of one man, who sought to inter- 

 fere and prevent the great triumph I was destined to 

 achieve, by flooding the city with hand-bills during 

 my stay. But all his abortive attempts only tended 

 to increase my popularity, causing gentlemen from 

 distant parts of the country, who had seen my sys- 

 tem exemplified, and appreciated my endeavors to 

 put before all the benefit of my experience, to rally 

 around me, ready to give battle in my behalf against 

 any and all would-be defamers and pretended horse 

 breakers or tamers. While here I was pleased as well 

 as surprised to find what a large number of aunts and 

 cousins, and other relations, I had, and in truth al- 

 most forgotten, for during the ten years of my hard 

 but successful struggle I had not been under the pa- 

 ternal roof once. It is with great pleasure I state that 

 I have the names of a host of my friends who presented 

 me while in Boston with a most beautiful and valua- 

 ble gold Howard watch, English riding whip, etc. 



ADVENT AND SUCCESS IN NEW YORK. 



My opening in New York had been fully announced 

 in the daily papers by my Managers, Messrs Lovecraft 

 and Burnham, who had secured for the opening night 

 at Cosmopolitan Hall, corner 41st Street and Broad- 

 way, the man-eating stallion Rysdyk of Montreal, 

 Canada, which had killed his groom in the stall on 

 April nth, besides biting two others and his owner, 

 W. H. Kimball. This horse had been shipped by ex- 

 press from Montreal on Friday, the i6th, arriving in 

 New York on Sunday, the i8th. I gave the stallion 

 his first lesson on Monday evening before a crowded 



