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suddenly lifting and throwing the blanket under his body. 

 It was afterward an object of such terror to him that he 

 did not have a blanket over him again for seven years. 

 He would have killed any man venturing near him with 

 one in Jiis hand. When I exhibited one before him, at a 

 distance of twenty feet, he plunged away in the most des- 

 perate manner ; and after being almost completely disabled, 

 he would squeal, strike, and kick at a blanket held at a dis- 

 tance of ten or twelve feet, his eyes bloodshot with terror. 

 The point was to appeal to the understanding without seri- 

 ously shocking the nen r ous system. 



I subjected him to First and Second Methods, showing 

 him a part of the blanket, first at a distance of about twelve 

 or fifteen feet, gradually coming nearer as I felt safe in so 

 doing. Even after a treatment that would have compelled 

 the complete submission of any ordinary horse, he was so 

 fierce and desperate that I could not approach near enough 

 with the blanket to make him smell or touch it, without 

 danger of being killed. I hung it upon a pole, and when 

 able finally to bring it against his nose, he grabbed it in his 

 mouth four or five times with the ferocity of a bulldog, but 

 biting less and less each time, until he seemed to care noth- 

 ing about it, when he submitted to having it thrown over 

 or around him, as desired, entirely regardless of it ; and 

 the experiment was pronounced a remarkable success. 



CASE Y. . 



This was a bay pony, nine years old, owned by a phy- 

 sician at Greencastle, Pa. This horse was afraid of IL buf- 

 falo-robe. I had a large class of leading citizens, and at 

 the close of the instructions the pony was brought in. Al- 

 though distant from him more than thirty feet, upon ex- 

 posing a part of the robe to his view, his terror became so 

 great that in his effort to get away, he broke out of the 



