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as much as I could by driving there in the night, as doubt- 

 ful horses always drive better in the night than in the day 

 time. I started about 9 o'clock, and as I had anticipated, 

 upon reaching the country, he acted so badly, showing such 

 intense fear of almost everything he saw, that I could not 

 drive him with any safety. I was, in fact, compelled to 

 get out and lead him back to the settled part of the city, 

 when he at once drove as well as ever. I had broken and 

 driven him in the noisiest and most densely traveled part 

 of the city. There he was perfectly gentle ; but upon tak- 

 ing him where he had not been controlled, the instinct of 

 his old fear and resistance became so strong, that to pro- 

 ceed would be at the risk of having him kick and resist 

 control. If subjected to treatment here, his management 

 would have been as easy and simple as in the city. But 

 as I did not care to do this, on account of the difficulty of 

 getting privacy, and w^hich would also require doing the 

 whole work over again, I concluded to give up the project 

 of exhibiting him at Gowanda. My friends never knew 

 the reason of my not showing him there as promised, and 

 will learn it for the first time from this explanation. 



A very sensitive horse will always behave better in a 

 noisy city than in the country. The rattle and noise on 

 every side so confuses as to prevent him from concentrat- 

 ing his purpose to resist, or from having his attention di- 

 rected in any particular direction ; whereas in the country 

 the whole attention is attracted to some special object or 

 cause of notice, and excites correspondingly increased dis- 

 turbance. This condition is specially referred to under 

 various heads. 



Case II. 



This was an eight-year-old bay, owned in Brookville, 

 Pa. He was of ordinary size, nervous temperament, good 



