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included the details of treatment of over forty of the most 

 interesting and difficult cases subdued by me, giving age, 

 color, cause of viciousness, etc., supplemented by a general 

 review of principles under the head of Subjection. In this 

 book will be found explained for the first time the secret 

 of Rarey's success in the control of Cruiser and the other 

 test cases in England and France, also of whom he ob- 

 tained his knowledge of the treatment he used, which will 

 be found of much interest. 



It has been well known wherever I have traveled that 

 I taught my system as a secret which I never gave in 

 print; and on account of the great expense in traveling, 

 requiring not only the aid of skilled men, but from five to 

 ten horses, that to give me a reasonable compensation I 

 was compelled to charge five, and in some sections of country 

 ten dollars for such instructions, thus putting them within 

 the reach of but a comparatively few. In addition, the 

 time at my disposal for each class being so limited, it was 

 impossible for me to give more than the merest outline of 

 my system. The importance, then, of making this knowl- 

 edge available to all at a moderate cost, can be seen. Cer- 

 tainly I could not give in many days' instruction the full 

 details herein given. It will be especially valuable to my 

 old scholars for reference. Take, for example, the expla- 

 nation of the War Bridle ; only a few, by the instructions 

 given in the class, could remember even its simplest form 

 of use. Here all the details of its various forms of appli- 

 cation have been fully explained and illustrated. So in re- 

 lation to methods of subjection and the principles of their 

 application, Avith all the other details, including treatment 

 for diseases, etc. 



I may be permitted to add that I never could feel 

 that I had any special fitness for winning even ordinary 

 success in this field of effort. I simply drifted, as explained, 



