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SUBJECTION.— ILLUSTEATIVE CASES. 



being there on business with no time or inclination to give 

 the matter any serious consideration, I soon after left for 

 the West. A few weeks after, I received a letter from 

 Rev. A. P. Ililhuan, the owner, asking whether such a 

 horse could be broken; saying that unless I could come 

 there and break him, he must be shot. I wrote him that 

 I intended to visit Maine the following spring, and from 

 the explanation given of the horse, I thought I should have 

 no difficulty in his subjei^tion. I advised him not to allow 

 the horse to be annoyed or molested in any way, to give 



Fig. 289.— Hillman Horse "Jet." 



apples, etc., occasionally. Upon arriving in the State in 

 the following spring, I went to see the horse privately ; 

 and upon a careful examination, concluded I could not 

 prudently experiment upon him before a class, and so 

 announced I would take him in hand immediately after the 

 close of the season's business, at which time I went to 

 Porthuid for that purpose. Desiring to make the experi- 

 ment a perfectly fair one, I appointed a special committee 

 of three leading citizens to invite a few representative 

 horsemen to be present to witness his subjection. It being 

 feared by those interested that I would play some under- 

 handed game, giving the horse medicine, or something that 

 would control him for the present, a special committee was 



