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on ; that tliej could not make. I am hundreds of 

 miles away curing these horses. I could do this in a 

 small village and they be ignorant of the fact. It 

 might be put in print in the daily papers, and such 

 ignoramuses as these never know it. They seldom, if 

 ever, read ; and yet I have had nearly all of my abuse 

 from this source. To get drunk on what they call 

 whisky is the hight of iheir ambition. The next is to 

 abuse and misuse these helpless horses in many ways. 

 Reader, if j^ou ever try to introduce this science, my 

 experience has taught me from such to turn away. 

 They cannot take in this great science; they only 

 fjght; you cannot teach them. The higher always 

 teach the lower. You cannot get teachers from the 

 lower to teach the higher ; that would be too much 

 like spreading the horse's foot at the toe or at the top. 

 You must select naturalists and scientific men — men 

 of brains, men whose word is good, not liars. I have 

 studied man some in the same time I have been study- 

 the horse. There are men that can and do lie, and it 

 is wonderful how they will multiply. Liars are very 

 prolific. If one big liar should tell lies out of whole 

 cloth before six or eight bearers of lies, it is surpris- 

 ing what a crop you will have in a short time, and 

 how they will multiph'', and what a field they w^ill 

 spread over. They are borne in papers, on the tele- 

 graph, and telephone, in the mail, and across the ocean 

 and under it. I speak of this for this reason, to post 

 you up. All this I have had to contend with in try- 

 ing lo perfect this w^ork and trying to introduce it. 

 Before I get through I will show you where I experi- 

 mented a little on this lying business. The lying fruit 



