494 PEKSONAL EXPElllENCE. 



I now traveled through Vermont, New Jersey, Penn- 

 syh^ania, AVestern New York, and Ohio, training in the 

 meantime several horses to drive without reins, both 

 double and single. Even after I had trained Turco, I soon 

 found it necessary to have additional features of interest to 

 enlist the degree of attention desired. When in Maine in 

 1864, the day before my exhibition, I adve^'tised to make 

 any Avild, unbroken colt so gentle in twenty minutes, that 

 I would take him, without bridle or halter, into the street, 

 and by the control of the whip alone, ride or handle him in 

 any way I pleased. This I failed to do but once. When 

 in Anson, a remarkably vicious colt was turned into a barn 

 so large that I could not get to him before he became so 

 excited that I knew I could not control him in the time 

 claimed. Of course it would not do to admit this, and so 

 I made the people crowding around and looking through 

 the cracks, an excuse for not attempting anything further 

 at this point. 



As I went into the street, I saw a young man riding a 

 colt toward me. Upon inquiry, I found he was from the 

 country, #id I told him I would pass him into my class 

 free, if he would let me handle his colt ten minutes to 

 illustrate my treatment before the class, to which he 

 consented. I made up the class on condition that I would 

 perform the feat upon the colt before referred to in their 

 presence ; but as it was an exceptionally bad one, I took 

 this precaution of obtaining an easier one to handle and 

 upon which to explain the principles. By this course I 

 succeeded, though it was a close pull, as it was absolutely 

 necessary to make the colt entirely gentle and control him 

 as promised. AVhen successful, I told the class the whole 

 stratagem, as I made it an invariable rule to give them the 

 facts, at which they laughed heartily. 



Afterward, when in Western 'New York, I advertised 



