32 TAMING HOUSES. 



if smelled for an hour or two. Some horses, thus 

 rendered sleepy, can be handled ; but on most 

 horses it has no effect, or very little. Now, as I 

 was determined to publish this secret some day or 

 other, in its true light, I never revealed any other 

 till now, but that accompanied with some one of 

 these substances, with certain directions how to ap- 

 ply them. These directions contained enough of 

 the true secret to tame a horse, so as to astonish 

 the most penetrating. Now and then, a horse 

 would remain gentle that had been thus tamed ; 

 but five out of ten would become wild again. 

 Whenever I broke one myself, he always remained 

 gentle. Drinnen sincerely thought that some of 

 these substances were necessary to gentle a horse. 

 I solemnly declare, before God and man, that I do 

 not believe that a horse can be tamed, even for a 

 short time, by the application of any of these sub- 

 stances, without applying to him more or less of 

 the true secret ; and furthermore : I declare, that 

 all and every one of them are entirely useless, and 

 of no effect. God is my witness, that if ever this 

 secret was known before, I never learnt it from any 

 man ; I discovered it myself, and brought it, as I 

 believe, to its greatest perfection. 



A horse is gentled, by my secret, in from two to 

 sixteen hours. The time I have most commonly 

 emi)loyed, has been from four to six. After my 



