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Hard pon}', which had to be led into the riiilv by a rope 

 about twenty-five feet long. In about three quarters 

 of an hour the Professor had the animal under com- 

 plete control, and it was gentle as a lamb. He has a 

 number of other horses of a vicious nature that he 

 will subdue. This morning he exhibited in front of 

 the Dispatch office a three year old, driven to a buggy 

 without the use of lines, and so completely was it under 

 control, that it could be driven any where by signs of 

 the whip. He is a wonderful horseman. 



The previous extracts, notices, and recommenda- 

 tions, together with a number of others, have all been 

 obtained mthin a radius of twenty miles from where I 

 was born and raised. I always made it a point to satis- 

 fy every man whose horse I trained. Some of the first 

 horses that I broke I made no charge for at all, although 

 the owners wanted to pay me for my work. I took their 

 horses partially to experiment upon, and gained enough 

 knowledge pertaining to the art to repay me for my 

 work. Often times men, through carelessness, would let 

 their horses get the advantage of them and fall into 

 their old habits, when I would take them back and mkke 

 them gentle again without charge. However, I am glad 

 to say that they were very few that it was necessary for 

 me to take back. My patrons commenced talking for 

 me, which was the best kind of advertising, and in this 

 way I soon had more horses to educate than I coxild 

 handle. I think I would be justified in saying that 

 when I quit training horses at home I could have had 



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