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were more or less experimental, each new difficulty or 

 phase of character trying me harder. When I failed, I 

 never felt satisfied to let the matter so rest, and often at 

 great inconvenience and expense would return and repeat 

 the experiment privately until successful. I did it mainly 

 for my own instruction. To show the persistence with 

 which I sometimes followed this up, I will refer to a case 

 for the sake of which I was compelled to lose over a week's 

 time, and travel over a hundred miles : 



At Vienna, N. Y., I failed on a horse brought in by 

 Dr. Carpenter, a leading physician in the place, and lost a 

 large class. Before leaving, I told the owner I was 

 unwilling to let the matter rest so, that after meeting my 

 other engagements, I would come back and take the horse 

 in hand privately, and see what I could do with him. 

 These engagements took me over sixty miles away. A 

 week afterward, I drove back and spent half a day in 

 handling the horse, barely succeeding in his control. The 

 gentleman proposed that I again advertise the place, 

 assuring me, if 1 would do so, I could get all the members 

 of the former class, and a number of new ones. This I 

 declined to do, when he offered to get them together him- 

 self, providing I would teach them ; and through his efforts 

 and influence a larger class than before was assembled. 

 This time I made a decided success. 



Whenever I found very peculiar cases, I obtained them, 

 if possible, to experiment upon. I will refer to one very 

 marked case. When in Buffalo, N. Y., I heard of a trotting 

 mare which was a desperate runaway of a peculiar charac- 

 ter. She had been owned by a canal stableman in Erie 

 Street, who, after she had run away with him several 

 times, traded her off. Upon inquiry, I found the mare, 

 and prevailed upon the owner to let me have her to exper- 

 iment upon. He consented, on condition that I would pay 



