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into the air, kicked and pulled away, rushing around the 

 enclosure, jumping and kicking with all the fury of a mad 

 horse. He jumped at least eight or ten feet at a bound, 

 and instantly he was nearly twenty feet away, having 

 kicked four or five times, and was right upon the crowd. 



The people, screaming and tumbling over one another, 

 strove to get away, but they were cornered, for the next 

 bound of the horse was sure to bring him upon them. The 

 instant he passed me, I jumped for him, and, fortunately, 

 was able to grasp him by the head ; being on the inside, 

 as it were, of the circle, the momentum of the jerk upon 

 the head sideways stopped him so quickly as to throw him 

 squarely upon his side. 



Had I failed to catch and control him, he would 

 undoubtedly have injured or killed a number of persons. 

 I now took him in hand, and, with the aid of my assistant, 

 soon made him stand quietly to have the harness put upon 

 him, though he resisted the utmost of extreme treatment 

 before submitting. 



Another great and frequent cause of embarrassment to 

 me was, after subjecting a horse to treatment before a 

 class, it was supposed that if the system was good for 

 anything, he must perform equally well out of doors. As 

 frequently explained, a horse must be subjected to treat- 

 ment out of doors in order to insure his working there. If 

 subjected to treatment in a building only, when taken into 

 the streets where he has been in the habit of resisting, he 

 would be liable to show as much fear and resistance as 

 though not subjected to treatment at all. To let the horse 

 resist under such circumstances would be fatal to my 

 success. Still this proof was in most cases demanded, and 

 had to be given. 



I have frequently referred to this difficulty in different 

 parts of the work, particularly in the last chapter Familiar 



