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at command five times as many colts and horses as 

 would have been possible for any one man to handle. 



I will say right here that I am indeed grateful to 

 my neighbors and many friends, who, after looking at 

 my theory and system of training from a rational stand 

 point, gave me great encouragement in my efforts. It 

 seemed that the very parties that ^'hooted," and made 

 light of my work at first, after being in one of my class- 

 es, changed their views, and did a great deal more good 

 in my behalf than parties who never opposed me. 



I am often asked whether I teach horses to per- 

 form tricks. As training a horse to perform tricks is not 

 very practical to the horse owner generally, I have never 

 practiced teaching them in this way much. Of course, 

 when a young man owns a nice little horse, and has 

 taught him a few tricks, such as following, shaking 

 hands, lying down, etc., it makes him appear more tract- 

 able and intelligent than he otherwise would. When I 

 parted with the ugly colt that I had trained to drive 

 without lines, I purchased a well bred two year old 

 Hambletonian colt, which was exceedingly spirited, but 

 didn t have a great deal more brain than the other colt. 

 However, 1 made up my mind to drive him without 

 lines. After teaching him the signals of the whip for 

 a couple of weeks, I hitched him up for the first time 

 he was ever driven. I drove him by the motion of the 

 whip, without the use of lines, and have been driving 

 him that way ever since. It being the first colt that I 

 had ever lieard of being driven in this way, without 

 having first been driven with lines, I thought it quite 



