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his base, head up, limber, about half a neck ahead of 

 his mate, and was the limberest of the two. Mr. 

 Hatch pulled out his money to pay me. I charged 

 him five dollars. It was not the money I wanted ; it 

 was to introduce this science. Some may call this 

 bragginc^. I will say right here that when all such 

 men as they get this great science learned, after some 

 one else has studied it out and perfected it, they will 

 have more to brag about than they have now. It is 

 not my intention to write the experience of my broth- 

 ers working on the horse. They enlisted in this horse 

 fight, and have been at it ever since, and show no 

 signs of giving it up. I have got it started in two 

 places, by two practical men of long experience, 

 working on the horse. 



Kow I will sail back to the old battleground in 

 Horseheads. When I started out on this campaign I 

 sold out all of my interest in my shop. I soon secured 

 another, a good, new shop, rigged up; all stocked up 

 new. "I must have money," said I, "or I shall be 

 shipwrecked soon in this way." I did not put up any 

 sign. I never had a sign on my place of business, but 

 one, in all of the places I have done business in. 

 I soon found a way to call trade. When I saw a lame, 

 crippled horse I went for him. It soon spread, and in 

 a short time I was overrun again with horses. This is 

 the way I always advertise when I commence i i a new 

 place; but tliis was no new place; this was liie place 

 where I got jerked out of a wagon head-first U)v talk- 

 ing for the horse. It is not necessary to write ;il] the 

 particulars about this second atcack on this town, 

 battlinsr for the horse, onlv enough to lav down some 



