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ment. As explained, he made the experiment, and failed 

 completely ; yet in about fifteen minutes' treatment, I 

 made the horse stand gentle and allow his head to be 

 rubbed or caressed in any manner. In these as well as in 

 all other conditions of resistance requiring coercive meas- 

 ures, kind treatment, as repeatedly explained, is to be 

 depended upon as an aid in fixing and holding the character 

 good. 



CASE 7. HILLMAN HORSE " JET." 



When the facts of this case are considered, it must be 

 accepted as by far the most remarkable as well as interest- 

 ing case yet referred to. He was a young stallion out of 

 one of the best trotting horses in the State. He was but 

 little over three years old, and of beautiful form. Not- 

 withstanding the conditions of his treatment were of the 

 best character, when but little past two years old, in 

 defiance of all that could be done, he developed such an 

 extremely vicious character as to become at once wholly 

 uncontrollable. The circumstances under which I was 

 induced to experiment upon this horse were as follows : 



In the early summer of 1875 I made a chance visit to 

 Portland, Maine, where I had previously been in 1863, as 

 explained in Personal Experience. Meeting Dr. Tewkes- 

 bury, a leading physician and prominent citizen of that 

 city, he said : " There is one of the most vicious young 

 stallions here that has ever been known in the country, 

 one of the worst brutes that ever lived. He is shut up in 

 a building to prevent his injuring or killing any one. He 

 nearly killed one man, Eben Howe, and seriously injured 

 several others. If you can subdue him, you will prove 

 your ability to subdue any horse, and show that you are 

 the greatest horse-tamer .in the world." 



As he could give no particulars of the disposition, and 



