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Fairfield, where she was hitched up, before the class, perfectly gentle, not 

 minding the cross-piece running against her quarters, or showing the least 

 inclination to kick. I write this to say to you, and all my friends, to join 

 his class and learn his system. He is no humbug. The knowledge to be 

 gained is that which farmers and horse-owners cannot afford to be without. 

 "Yours Truly, F. A. HANKEY." 



The facts of her running away with a four-horse wagon, 

 I was positively assured to be in every particular true. 

 Mr. Hankey joined the class on condition that the mare 

 should be driven gentle. Being compelled to handle her 

 in the midst of a large crowd in an ordinary sized carriage- 

 house, with hard ground floor, the difficulty of her subjec- 

 tion was greatly increased. She was subjected first to 

 Third Method, which was carried to the fullest extreme 

 for about fifteen minutes, then to the Second, after which 

 again to the Third, when she submitted to have the quar- 

 ters touched without kicking. 



Her resistance to the bit was extreme, and it required 

 over an hour to make her yield at all to its restraint. Not 

 considering it safe to drive her while warm, I told the 

 owner if he would take her to Fairfield next day that, with 

 a little additional treatment, she could be driven with en- 

 tire satisfaction. He and a large number of the class fol- 

 lowed me there, where, as promised, she was driven with 

 entire success. As explained in chapter on " Kicking," 

 though many of these extremely desperate cases cannot 

 be driven while warm, because liable to fight back, which 

 would be equivalent to failure, by putting away until cool 

 and over the excitement, they can be driven with but little 

 difficulty. If the horse cannot then be driven with entire 

 safety, the safest and best way is to repeat the lesson, 

 when the driving will be made easy. 



CASE 6. GOODMAN HORSE. 



This case is included not only to show some of the dif- 

 ficulties the writer encountered during his early experience, 



