202 KICKING. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 



culty rescued Upon my arrival there, this man was still 

 confined in the city, helpless from the effects of the injury. 



It was considered a good joke to test me with this 

 horse ; and to do anything there, I found it necessary to 

 break him. I took him outside the city for treatment, and 

 subjected him to First Method. Not proving sufficient, I 

 followed it quickly with Second, alternating with First, 

 then again with the Second with great rapidity, when he 

 submitted to being touched around the quarters without 

 offering to kick. 



Upon trying his mouth I found it entirely unmanage- 

 able ; but after about an hour's effort, succeeded in making 

 him drive perfectly gentle. The same afternoon I drove 

 him, without breeching, down the principal street of the 

 city by word of command, while distant from him eight or 

 ten rods, letting him go fast or slow, stopping and starting 

 him as I desired. It was believed, however, that he must 

 have been under the influence of medicine. To test this, he 

 was shut up for a week, after which I was requested by Gen- 

 erals Forest, Rucker, and other leading citizens, to drive 

 him to a carriage. Upon arriving, I found the horse hitched 

 ready to be driven, and the demand, " We want to see you 

 get in and drive this horse now." This was decidedly 

 risky, as it is rarely that sufficient impression can be made 

 upon the brain by one lesson to make a horse safe eight 

 days afterward. To fail, as they predicted, would of course 

 be equivalent to exposing me as a humbug. Pretending to 

 be under the influence of liquor, I staggered toward the 

 horse's head, and with the apparent effort of steadying my- 

 self, with the right hand I grasped both reins back of the 

 jaw, and gave a sudden pull down and back, at the same 

 time saying sharply, "Whoa!" The horse yielded per- 

 ceptibly to this, which was sufficient to show me that the 

 mouth was entirely manageable. I immediately got in, 



