I04 AUTOlilOGKAl'lIV. 



CHAPTER IX. 



LEWISTON — EDUCATING THE HORSE "ANFIELD" — TESTIMONIAL — CON- 

 CORD — MANCHESTER — A STEAM ENGINE IN THE RING LOWELL 



LAWRENCE, 



Continuing my tour, I exhibited at many 

 places in the State until I reached the city of 

 Augusta, where I remained two days, and met 

 with marked success. Anxious to reach Lewis- 

 ton by the time I had fixed, I passed rapidly 

 through many towns and villages, only remaining 

 a day in each place, and arrived at Lewiston on 

 the eighth of September. It was here, as the 

 reader will remember, that I was to handle the 

 notorious "Anfield." 



After building an academy, and giving a public 

 exhibition, I announced my intention of control- 

 linof that vicious animal. The citizens turned 

 out en masse, but, as the horse was led into the 

 ring, the whole audience seemed terror-stricken, 

 wondering, no doubt, whether or not I would 



