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the Horse. Yes, any man who gives his time and 

 energy to the self-sacrificing business of teaching 

 rational horsemanship, should be a man entitled to 

 the respect of an intelligent people. But when Mr. 

 Rockwell claims to be the first man that has ever 

 driven a trained horse without reins, I know he is 

 in error. In 1857, Mr. A? H. Tidball — a partner I 

 travelled with some three years and a half — trained 

 and drove successfully, a spirited stallion called 

 Granite State Boy, before the Horse-Breeders Asso- 

 ciation at Ravenna, Ohio, that was trained under my 

 system, which is different in every feature from Mr. 

 Rockwell's ; after which, we gave successful exhibi- 

 tions through Upper and Lower Canada, and the 

 lower British Provinces. At the same time we had 

 under training Young Royal George, which was 

 exhibited through the New England States. 



In 1863 I purchased of Mr. Lovejoy, of Bethel 

 Hill, Maine, a thorough-bred horse, which I took to 

 Guildhall, Vermont, and in ten days from the time 

 I gave him his first lesson, I drove him on exhibition 

 before a large crowd of people at Norwich, Vermont, 

 and continued to give public exhibitions until the 

 Spring of 1865. When at Cooperstown, N. Y, I sold 

 him to Mr. Jackson, who has kept him since as a 

 stock horse. In August, 1865, I bought of Mr. 

 Jonathan Buell, of North Eaton, Washington Co., 

 N. Y, the brown colt, called Alarm, which I now 

 have on exhibition. In June, 1866, I also bought 

 of Mr. Benjamin Cummings, of North Brookfield, 



