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and the object of the experiment were placed to be 

 shut, with orders not to open the door until a signal was 

 given. After a tete-a-tete between him and the horse 

 for about half an hour, during which little or no bustle 

 was heard, the signal was made, and upon opening the 

 door, the horse was seen lying down, and the man by 

 his side playing familiarly with him, like a child with a 

 puppy dog. From that time he was found perfectly 

 willing to submit to any discipline, however repugnant 

 to his nature before. 



The narrator of this account says, " I once saw his 

 skill on a horse which could never before be brought to 

 stand for a smith to shoe him. The day after Sullivan's 

 half-hour lecture, I went, not without some incredulity, 

 to the smith's shop, with many other curious spectators, 

 where we were eye-witnesses of the complete success of 

 his art. This, too, had been a troop-horse ; and it was 

 supposed, not without reason, that, after regimental 

 discipline had failed, no other would be found availing. 

 I observed that the animal appeared afraid whenever 

 Sullivan either spoke or looked at him. How that 

 extraordinary ascendancy could have been obtained, it 

 is difficult to conjecture ! He seemed to possess an 

 instinctive power of inspiring awe, the result perhaps of 

 a natural intrepidity, in which I believe a great part of 



