28 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



educating the horse far in advance of anything 

 then known, and by which my name would be 

 handed down to coming generations as one who, 

 more than any other, had befriended that noble 

 but greatly abused animal. Often in my retired 

 moments my thoughts would go forward to the 

 time when I should be able to present my per- 

 fected system to the public, and as I looked 

 down the vista of time to the period when I 

 should announce my system, my mind pictured 

 to itself the success I since have realized. I was 

 fully conscious of its value to the world, and 

 thousands have since then freely acknowledged 

 the practicability and excellence of my system 

 of educating the horse. 



In the autumn of eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 seven I felt myself sufficiently master of my 

 new and unequaled system to commit myself 

 unreservedly to its public advocacy : so, after 

 selling out my stock in trade, I made my prep- 

 arations to travel for the purpose of bringing 

 it before the world. Previous to leaving Bata- 

 via I had purchased from a perambulating horse 



