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opening in the stable a foot wide and lie will imagine it seven 

 times as large as it really is, and will attempt to work through it. 

 We might enumerate scores of instances that supporters of this 

 theory might advance in support of their argument, but think the 

 above sufficient to illustrate to the reader that the theory is in- 

 correct. 



Then again, some people will say there is great controlling 

 power in the eye of man. In fact, while I was travelling 

 through the Blue Glass Eegions of Kentucky, a very prominent 

 stock-raiser and physician, and a gentleman who was highly 

 educated, in conversation with me one day in Lexington, stated 

 that he could plainly see how I had such control and power over 

 the horse. I had just been teaching a class of gentlemen my art 

 of managing horses, and as an experiment for the class, I had a 

 very high-strung, nervous horse, that was very much afraid of an 

 umbrella, and I was swinging it all around his head, and he (the 

 horse) stood perfectly quiet and gentle, and I remarked to this 

 gentleman : 



" How do you think 1 got the control of this skittish animal ? 

 If your ideas are correct, I will own up before all these gentle- 

 men/' The doctor replied : 



" When you took hold of that horse you kept your eye right 

 on him, and he saw in your eye that you were determined and 

 not afraid of him. There is great power in man's eye." 



In fact, there are hundreds of people who believe the Horse, 

 Lion, and the Elephant are controlled by this wonderful power 

 in man's eye. For instance, they claim that the Lion-tamer, on 

 entering the Lion's den, fastens his gaze on the Lion's eyes, by 

 which means he controls the treacherous brute. I admit that the 

 Lion-tamer does keep his eye on the Lion, but in the same manner 

 that two men in combat eye each other narrowly to anticipate 

 any offensive move on the part of the adversary. The Lion-tamer 



