14 INTRODUCTION. 



give me, if necessary, at some future time. Dr. McBeth 

 of Battle Creek, Mich., has also rendered me much valua- 

 ble assistance. 



The difficulties I encountered in making this work will 

 be better understood by giving the simple facts, which it 

 is hoped will be accepted as sufficient to excuse for whatever 

 is faulty in its writing or arrangment : First, I am not a 

 practical writer, and owing to serious cerebral inflammation 

 I have not been able to write a single page of this book 

 with my own hand, nor read any part of it for revision or 

 correction. It has been dictated by me to a copyist, then 

 read for revision, making the work extremely laborious and 

 difficult. It will, however, be found to give in the most 

 faithful manner, without any reserve avhatever, all the 

 j)oints of my Avork more carefully and thoroughly than I 

 could possibly do before a class. I desire emphatically to 

 state that I do not keep back any secret whatever, and 

 would further state that if I did not wish to make my 

 system of treatment entirely accessible to the public, 

 there are many single points herein published which I 

 would not give for one hundred dollars ; but which, as any 

 one must see by the remarkable results of my experiments, 

 are invaluable to practical horsemen upon all classes of 

 vicious horses ; so that by its instruction their subjection 

 and management should be accomplished without difficulty. 

 . This work is not only the first of the kind published 

 explaining the art of taming and educating horses, but it 

 is the practical outgrowth of my own experience. In its 

 writing I have not only aimed to give the fullest explana- 

 tion OF MY PRINCIPLES AND METHODS of management, with all 

 the details carefully classified, but as an additional aid 1 

 have included the details of treatment of nearly fifty of the 

 most INTERESTING AND DIFFICULT cascs treated by me, giving 

 age, color, cause of viciousness, etc. 



