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by strangers with perfect safety, and driven upon the streets. 

 Altogether, it was one of the most remarkable cases ever witnessed 

 in this country, as he was in all respects as vicious as the noted 

 English horse Cruiser. We do not write this as a pufF, but to 

 illustrate the perfection to which the science of horse- training has 

 been brought by Prof. Magner. Many of our citizens who failed 

 to attend his lectures here, are now regretting not having done so. 

 His great success recently in New York, where he is indorsed in 

 the strongest manner by all the best horsemen, including Mr. 

 Bonner, Mr. Bergh, and even the clergy, proves him to be a man 

 of real merit ; and were he to come here again, we predict for him 

 a flattering reception." — Kalamazoo (Mich.j Gazette. 



" His History (by Dr. Way, who Owned Him, and whose 



Brother He had Killed), which was Requested 



BY the Class for Publication. 



" The 'Updike Horse,' better known as ' Man-Eater,' from his 

 remarkable viciousness, was out of the Canada horse ' Lyon ' and 

 a Messenger mare. He was a wonderfully wild colt, and would kick 

 and strike at any one who approached or annoyed him. 



" When three years old, he was caught with a lasso for the 

 purpose of castrating him. In the attempt to do so, after being 

 confined, he broke the ropes by which he was tied, and got away, 

 and it took several men with horses nearly all day to catch him and 

 complete the operation. It was found impossible to take the 

 sticks off" next day, and he was allowed to run, to die or not, in 

 consequence. Ho ran wild afterward until five years old, when 

 he was sold to Nathan Austin, who, after being seriously injured 

 by him, succeeded in getting him in harness to plow by the side 

 of a gentle horse, and plowed him all day with one of his fore feet 

 tied up, notwithstanding which he would kick and strike next 

 morning as bad as ever. 



" By long-continued, severe, exhausting work of this kind, he 

 finally could bed him down in stall and handle him a little. 



" Mr. E. Higgins g(jt liim next. In his efforts to drive him, he 

 kicked himself loose, destroying the wagon, and defied for a long- 

 time the utmost efforts of three men to catch him, and after being- 

 put in stall no one dared to approach him. In two weeks he was 

 sold to Mr. Lewis Hadden, from whom he got away in the attempt 

 to drive him, and it was with the greatest effort that he was 

 finally caught ; and after the most violent effoi't could finally be 

 handled by Mr. Hadden, but by no one else. He kicked and 

 nearly killed one of his boys, and he sold him to John Hogle. In 

 a short time he became so vicious that he could not be let out of 

 the barn or approached. 



