APPENDIX. 



I thought my book was finished, yet there are a few more truths 

 I would like to publish in this work. To begin, I will say I leave 

 you the key with which I unlocked tins great mystery, and which 

 cost me so many years of hard labor to find. This mystery has 

 deformed the suffering horse and held him so. The key is expanding 

 and mastering the base of the horse, his feet. Reader, you must 

 begin there if you ever unlock this great science, which ongTit to*' 

 be easy for you, now that you haive th6 k^y. 



This appendix is to show my powers of endurance and to put 

 the cap-sheaf on the last of this work. While in New York super- 

 intending the getting up of this work I put up at what I supposed 

 to be a respectable house. It had on the front and both sid^^ 

 •'Hotel." It turned out to be one of the lowest sinks of debauch- 

 ery a man ever stepped in. I was so engaged iu my work that I 

 did not take much notice of what was taking place around me. I 

 made contracts with parties, advanced money, and set men at work 

 on my book, and they were to draw on me as the work pro- 

 gressed. After my work was nicely begun, some parties iu this 

 hotel tried to rob me by using chloroform. I went to the keeper of 

 this den for redress, but could get no satisfaction. I told him I 

 would expose liis ranch, and went for a policeman. He told me 

 he would take care of me. I went with him. He took me to the 

 station. After getting me inside, two at one time went in my 

 pockets and robbed me of my money, pocketbook, and contents, 

 and not one word would they hear from me. I offered to take 

 them to D. M. Bennett's printing-office and to Prof. Rawson's, where 



