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that is, in first tlioroughlj learning liis trade before he 

 hangs out his shingle. He has already to my knowledge 

 refused some very tempting offers to train and ^rive differ- 

 ent stables of horses, thinking it better to first comx^letely 

 master every part of the business; I think this is a plan 

 that every young man should follow. After you have made 

 up your mind that you want to make training and driving 

 horses your business, consult with whoever you think is the 

 best trainer in the land, take his advice whether you are 

 fitted for the work, then place yourself under his charge 

 and every day try to learn all you can in regard to the 

 details of the business. In that way you Avill have a chance 

 to not only use your own judgment, but you will obtain the 

 benefit of your emxDloyer's education and experience. All 

 the success that I have had in life in my business I thank 

 my early em^^loyers for. Mace took as much jjains to teach 

 me how to train and drive a horse as any school teacher 

 would have taken with a boy if he had known he would 

 have lived to be President of the United States. It would 

 have been impossible for a man to have taken more interest 

 in a scholar than Mr. Simmons did in me, and when I drove 

 the first horse for him in public races, he seemed to take a 

 greater j^leasure in making me a competent driver tlian he 

 did in having the horse win. When George Starr offers his 

 services to the public I shall be willing to indorse him, and 

 think he will i^rove that my theory about learning to be a 

 horse trainer is correct. In size, ajppearance and manners, 

 he looks and acts more like h's employer, Mr. Doble, than 

 any man I ever saw. George perhaps has a little the advan- 

 tage of Budd in years, being somewhat younger, but has 

 those same careful methods in his character that have made 

 Budd in my oi)inion the greatest horse trainer I ever saw. 



