JS^ . TESTIMONY. 



and there were nearh' one hundred people "present^ 

 including a few ladies: 



Jesse Beery will give his first public exhibition 

 Sept. 1, in Xate Iddings' large barn, near Pleasant 

 Hill. He will show up his S3'stem of training coits 

 and breaking vicious horses. 



Prof. Jesse Beer}^, our skilled horse trainer, has- 

 at present in training six of the equines, which have 

 natural and acquired cussedness. Among them is a 

 fifteen year old kicker from Woodington, Ohio. He 

 gives them ^'Jesse'^ ever}^ time. 



A short time before my first exhibition, 1 pur- 

 chased a very bad dispositioned colt, one that would 

 balk, rear and plunge. I will describe her head, for 

 I think it had about as many characteristics indicating 

 a bad disposition as is generally found in one head. 

 She had a very long head, narrow between the eyes 

 and between the ears, had long ears, with plenty of 

 long hair inside of them. Her eyes were small and 

 set well back in her head. On account of her being so 

 mean and ugty, I was determined to control her, and 

 thought I would see how far I could teach her; before 

 I: quit I drove her by the signal of a whip, without 

 bridle or lines. While driving her in a neighboring 



