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back up this great science, and have got some now. 

 There is no danger of losing on mj side. That I well 

 know. After all this hard winter's work only a few 

 have learnt anything, for this reason, they cannot see 

 as I have done an3^thing on that old mare I had last 

 fall. She is changed so her identity is forever lost to 

 them. They can see nothing but that old mare I 

 was towing around last fall, and they cannot see her. 

 I can see them both at the same time. With science 

 I can change young horses in a very few days so 

 much their owners would not know them if I did not 

 tell them anything about it. They dare not swear 

 it was their horse, for this reason. I have been called 

 a dangerous and bad man ; some have told me they 

 would not dare take their horses in my shop. Such 

 cowards must drive stiS horses. I have had horses so 

 lame and sti£E they could hardly move ; if they did it 

 hurt them very bad — brought to me to cure. Before 

 I was allowed to commence on them I must give se- 

 curity three and four times the horse's worth, for fear 

 I might spoil them. I would like some of these 

 afraid and cowardlv men to tell me how it would be 

 possible to spoil one of these horses. They are already 

 spoilt, and some have been for many years. They can 

 be made worse by these effect doctors in many ways, 

 and are, and they are paid well for doing it. I never 

 heard of one case in my life where they were asked to 

 cive security if they killed these horses burning and 

 mutilating them. Some died with the lockjaw, caused 

 by seatons being put in their shoulders. Some do get 

 killed by these effect doctors ; some stand the torture 



