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when he at la.st- gave up unconditionally, and was driven 

 before the cla.ss and upon the streets with entire success, 

 afterward remaining perfectly gentle and manageable. 



A week later, he was exhibited in the street at a little 

 town eight miles distant, where he was owned. His good 

 character and performances enabled me to make a large 

 class there. 



Case 2. — Gallopsville Horse. 



This was a seven-year old sorrel gelding, owned in Gal- 

 lopsville, N. Y. He was a remarkably fine, muscular fel- 

 low, weighing about 1050 pounds. I refer to him as a 

 good type of an extremely bad, unbroken colt, and but a 

 slight modification of the previous case. In the preceding 

 case, when the horse was hitched up, he would go, per- 

 haps, some distance, and then, suddenly and without warn- 

 ing, pull ahead, or kick and run away. And, once resist- 

 ing, there was no possibility of holding him afterward. He 

 was a snorting, treacherous brute of the worst kind, and 

 when brought forward for treatment, Avas considered en- 

 tirely unmanageable in harness. 



The touching of the harness, or anything brought against 

 his quarters would cause him to jump or kick with great 

 fury. At this time I remained but one day in a place, and 

 taught my classes in any kind of a building available. At 

 this place we had a small carriage house with hard-wood 

 floor, which Avas so unsuitable that to attempt the subjec- 

 tion of such a horse here would be not only very difficult, 

 but dangerous. On this account the First Method, Avhich 

 was well adapted for his temperament, could not be used. 

 Consequently he was subjected first, cautiously, to the 

 Second Method, which was a necessary step toward toning 

 down his extreme sensibility, but he could not be j)ushed to 

 its limits on account of the hard-wood floor, the smallness of 



