42 GREAT THOROUGHNESS NECESSARY. 



There are also many who are disposed to sneer and find 

 fault with the writer, should they fail to even a limited 

 degree in accomplishing those marked results illustrated, 

 and which have been shown to be so easily accomplished by 

 his treatment as to be beyond comparison with any other 

 treatment in simplicity and effectiveness. 



The consideration of an hour or two's time and a few 

 dollars' cost, seems to be an equivalent that demands such 

 effectiveness in the treatment given, as to scarcely require 

 an effort to reform horses of the most vicious character. 

 Like the conceited, ignorant, laboring Irishman, who man- 

 aged by years of the most severe labor and rigid economy 

 to save enough to take him to America, had such a hallu- 

 cination impressed upon his mind of the ease and luxurious 

 plenty to be found in this great, free country, that after 

 landing in New York he would not deign to pick up a five 

 dollar gold piece which happened in his way in the street. 

 It was not worth stooping for. Be Gorra, he would go to 

 the whole heap which he imagined somewhere beyond, and 

 when he found it necessary to work at fourteen shillings a 

 day, which was just twelve times more than he ever received 

 for a day's labor in Ireland, he cursed the freedom and 

 sneered at the privation, suffering and loss by which this 

 grand, free country, with its illimitable resources, were won 

 and given for the use and benefit of the poor and industrious 

 of all nations, for little more than the cost of coming to it. 

 So many ignorant, conceited men who have not the expe- 

 rience, discrimination or judgment to appreciate and use 

 with becoming patience and effort, the knowledge which I 

 have made available to them for virtually almost nothing, 

 which has cost me the best part of my life to develope, at 

 a cost of labor, anxiety, danger and money, that with rea- 

 son would appal those of the most stern resolution, energy 

 and strength, and but few, indeed, who would have the 

 courage even to attempt, would succeed in passing through 

 without failing. The truth is, more or less failure and dif- 

 ficulty is necessary to become skilled and successful in the 

 performance of any important duty, and the same is, to 

 some extent, true in the application of my system. When 

 I tell the reader that the ability to write these pages, and 

 whatever of skill and success I have attained, has been 

 grown into me by the hard, stern attritioa of an unaided 



