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expKcit direction herein contained. I have also 

 a white stallion, known as the North Star, 

 educated to drive without reins, guided wholly 

 by the motion of the whip. I do not often exhibit 

 him, because this is not what people care to 

 see. It has been practiced through the country 

 by persons teaching a very different theory. It 

 is not desirable to me that this system be classed 

 in that capacity, as it must be, if I give the 

 same exhibition, nor is it in any way desirable to 

 break horses to drive in this manner, which it is 

 both simple and easy to do, but I deem it more 

 commendable, and practicable, to teach a horse 

 to drive safely icitli reins under good subjection, 

 spirit unimpaired. The beauty of a horse, aside 

 from his formation of body, is his spirit and 

 ambition, at the same time submission to the 

 will of his master. His word being law, and 

 although it is almost impossible to convince 

 thorough horsmen that they do not known 

 it all concerning the horse and his manage- 



