258 BALKING. 



CASE No. 1. At Great Barrington, Mass., an Irishman 

 proposed to join my class and pay a double tuition fee, if 

 I would break his horse of balking. I told him if he would 

 join the class I would teach him the principle, and if he 

 could not make his horse work perfectly gentle when he 

 went home that evening, he could so report next day at 

 West Stockbridge, where I was engaged to lecture, and I 

 would return his money. He was extremely suspicious 

 and incredulous as to my terms, but finally joined the class. 

 The following day he was at the next town, so well pleased 

 that he stated publi :ly to his friends, that in ten minutes 

 he was able to make the balky horse work as well as the 

 gentle one, and that he could indorse all my statements. 



CASE No. 2. At Brunswick, Maine, a man introduced 

 himself to me, and stated that he teamed for a living; 

 that his whole property was in his horses ; that one of them 

 balked, making his team worthless ; that his only object 

 in going into the class was to break this horse of the 

 habit. 



I assured him that I would put him in the way of break- 

 ing his horse without difficulty ; and that if he could not 

 make his horse work and pull as desired when he went 

 home in the afternoon, on the following morning he could 

 come to me and get his money back. Next day he stated 

 that in ]ess than ten minutes he was able to make this 

 horse work just as well as the other. 



CASE No. 3. When in Northern New York, in 1876, a 

 man introduced himself to me as an old scholar, who had 

 attended my lectures a few years before, and desired to 

 come into my class again. He said that he had not had occa- 

 sion to make any use of the instructions until about a year 

 before, when, in plowing, one of his horses balked. He 

 was for some time puzzled to know what to do, when it 

 occurred to him to try this method of treatment. He had 



