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thus held them suspended, to prepare them 

 for a kind of puppet-show ; some were not 

 far from believing that I fascinated them by 

 the power of my looks. Finally, a certain 

 portion of the public, seeing these animals 

 perform in time to the charming music of 

 one of my friends, M. Paul Cuzent, insisted 

 seriously that they undoubtedly possessed, 

 in a very great degree, the instinct of 

 melody, and that they would stop short 

 with the clarionets and trombones. So, 

 the ' sound of the music was more powerful 

 over my horse than I was myself! The 

 animal obeyed a do or a sol, nicely touched, 

 but the effects of my legs and hands went 

 for nothing. Would it be believed that such 

 nonsense was uttered by people that passed 

 for riders? I can comprehend their not 

 having understood my means at first, since 

 my method was new; but before judging it 

 in so strange a manner, they ought, at 



