100 WHIP AND SPUR. 



discouraged, and seemed to say that with time 

 and good treatment he would be ready for a 

 more successful trial. 



During his period of tutelage, and while he 

 was kept from all excessive exertion, he was in- 

 ducted into the mysteries of the art, to him 

 quite new, of jumping timber. Columbus had 

 been occupied by Rebel and Union soldiers since 

 the outbreak of the war, and its fences, far and 

 wide, had all disappeared ; but nowhere in the 

 world was there a greater variety nor a more 

 ample stock of fallen trees, whose huge boles 

 made capital leaping-bars ; and over these, al- 

 most daily, for some months, beginning with the 

 smaller ones and going gradually to the largest 

 we could find, Max learned to carry a heavy 

 weight with a power and precision that even 

 Euby could not have excelled. 



During all this time, ample feed, good shelter, 

 regular exercise, and a couple of hours of Ike's 

 hand-rubbing daily, worked an uninterrupted im- 

 provement in limb and wind and sinews and coat, 

 until, by the time we were ordered to Union 



