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bold pretensions to being able to know a horse's every 

 thought, and to subdue any horse or animal in the world. 

 In proof of these claims, he subdued Cruiser so that he coul(^ 

 handle him with safety before the public. This horse was 

 said to be so vicious that an iron muzzle was kept on him, 

 and he was shut up in a building built especially for him. 

 He next subdued a horse called the Stafford Stallion, 

 owned by the emperor of France, so that he was driven in 

 the streets of Paris for two weeks by the side of a mare. 



Fig. 258. — Usual position before being thrown. 



This horse was so vicious that he had killed three men, 

 and had been kept confined in a building for two years. A 

 still more surprising feat was the subjection of a zebra from 

 the zoological gardens of London. 



So great was the interest excited among all classes in 

 England by this apparent success, that two thousand sub- 

 scribers Avere obtained to learn the secret, at $50 each. 

 But when he came to reveal his method, it was found, or 

 claimed, to be based wholly upon disabling and throwing 

 the horse, the same as Bull's method, excej)ting that in- 

 stead of bringing the strap Avhich was attached to the off 



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